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2026-07-11 18:27:24

40 years ago this weekend, jerry garcia falls into a diabetic coma & nearly dies. in the hospital, his heart stops following an allergic reaction when doctors give him valium. the dead will cancel 30 dates through fall. he relearns to play guitar & is performing again by october.

~ Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia in Marin hospital EXAMINER STAFF REPORT Jerry Garcia, guitarist with the Grateful Dead, has been hospital ized. His attorney, Chris Andrian, con- | firmed that Garcia was in the hospi- tal but had no further details, other than to say, “Just tell everybody who loves Jerry to pray for him.” KFOG reported today that Gar- cia was admitted to Marin General Hospital with a high temperature. The hospital would say only that “a Jerome Garcia” had been admit- ted…
Saturday, July 12. 1986 Page Y Garci » GREENBRAE, (AP) Jerry Garcia, lead guitarist for the Grateful Dead rock band, has been hospitalized after slipping into a diabetic coma that resulted from an infection caused by an abcessed tooth, a band spokesman said. (Garcia, 43, was in Marin General Hospital, about 20 miles north of San Francisco, but hospital spokeswoman Sandra Currie would not release any information about his condition. Band spokesman Dennis McNally said Garcia lapsed into a diab…
Jerry Garcia in the hospital
1 EE Pa ee. = ee. tls wn. \ : 'y . GARCIA G — From A-1 Deadheads. : Early last year Garcia was arrest : ed in Golden Gate Park. Police said he had cocaine and heroin in his "car. The charges were dropped when he agreed to enter a drug-di version program. A friend said: “There is absolute ly nothing illegal connected with "Jerry's illness. The infection has heen painful, and he’s basically ex ' hausted.” :