Overview
- The 80-year-old composer fell ill with a severe pneumonia while on holiday in Spain and was flown to Munich for intensive care earlier this month.
- He has been kept in an artificial coma at Harlachinger Hospital and medical staff planned to wake him last Friday but postponed that step because his cardiac condition was judged unstable.
- Doctors are closely monitoring his breathing and heart function in the ICU and say his body must regain strength before they attempt to discontinue sedation.
- His wife and daughter remain at his bedside and report small reactions to familiar stimuli such as his own songs and a Norway–England World Cup match as they hold hope for improvement.
- Siegel’s advanced age and a history of multiple cancer episodes and chronic polyneuropathy increase his vulnerability and complicate the outlook for recovery.