From an email sent out by Chuck's wife earlier today to Jim Morrison ...
Chuck went in to Surrey Memorial Hospital early Wednesday with excruciating pain. Something to do with a “stangulated hernia” and an operation he had 2 and a half years ago which required immediate surgery.
In his wife Edna’s words: “I agreed to his surgery, even though they told me that he might die on the operating table, as his blood pressure was very low. I felt that if he didn’t have the surgery that he would die anyway. Well he survived the surgery and is now in the intensive care ward. They are aware that he does not want to be resuscitated if he has a heart attack. He was really out of it when we visited him in the intensive care ward later, as he had had a horrendous day.”