Australian music mogul Molly Meldrum is back in an intensive care unit after undergoing spinal surgery at a hospital in Melbourne.
The 65 year old has been under the care of doctors since last month (Dec11) when he suffered a number of injuries, including a fractured skull, after falling from a ladder while putting up Christmas decorations.
He was placed in an induced coma by doctors and later underwent surgery to repair a broken collarbone and extensive breaks and fractures to his left ribcage.
After the operation, he was able to breathe without the help of a ventilator and even started speaking again, but he is now in recovery after undergoing further surgery on New Year's Day (01Jan12) to repair fractured vertebrae in his back.
Meldrum's brother Brian hopes the star will be able to leave the intensive care unit (Icu) soon.
He says, "It's depending on progress, but they (the doctors) seem to think that perhaps this time next week there would be some chance of him coming out of the Icu and going up to a trauma ward.
"I fully expect that he will continue to make steps forward, but it is a really long and slow process, and you can't guarantee outcomes in the sense that say 'This will happen next Tuesday, and then that will happen the following Wednesday.' It doesn't work like that. It's a process that when things happen, they happen."