Country music star fighting for life sends message to fans from hospital bed

Colt Ford performs at Naperville's Ribfest at Knoch Park on Friday, June 30, 2017, in Naperville, IL. Just three weeks after he collapsed with a heart attack following a show in Arizona, Colt Ford took to social media from his hospital bed Wednesday with a message for his fans.

Ford said he had just stepped back onto his tour bus after performing at Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row bar in Mesa, Arizona when he texted his fiancée, ‘Hi baby.’”Half of country music star duo on reuniting: ‘I don’t want it back’ Ford said that, luckily, his band came out to check on him and found him. And, he said, country music star Brantley Gilbert got involved in getting him to the hospital and, eventually, making sure he was switched to another hospital when the one they were at didn’t have the correct equipment to deal with Ford’s heart situation.“They brought me back,” he said. “They saved my life. The Lord had more for me to do.”“He said, I would give you a .

Ford, who has worked closely with Toby Keith, Jamey Johnson and Jason Aldean, has had his share of health issues.He also reportedly had eye cancer and had to undergo surgery three years ago to deal with that.

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