Icon Etta James is now terminally ill - asking for prayers.

Blues/soul icon Etta James, whose health has been fading in recent years, is now terminally ill, and her live-in doctor is asking for prayers.
Dr. Elaine James, who isn't related to the 73-year-old Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, says medical experts informed the performer that her chronic leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow, was declared incurable two weeks ago. The doctor has cared for Etta James around-the-clock care at the singer's Riverside, CA, area home since March 2010. James is barely able to communicate at this point, she added.

Elaine James says she's spreading word of the singer's ailments so people will pray for her. She says fans know Etta James has been sick "but not how sick."
Court records in the singer's probate case show she also suffers from dementia and kidney failure.

Dr. James made her comments outside a Riverside conservatorship hearing over the singer's $1 million estate. The singer's son, Donto James, has expressed concerns over his mother's treatment and care and wants a conservator rather than the singer's husband, Artis Mills.
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