Aretha Franklin Says She Feels "Great" following surgery

(Reuters) Aretha Franklin says she feels "great" and is "piddling around the house" as she follows doctors orders to rest at home after surgery two weeks ago.
"I feel great," Franklin told JET magazine in her first interview since being discharged from a Detroit area hospital earlier this week.
"The doctors say I can do whatever I feel like I am up to do. Of course, that doesn't mean any concerts or anything like that. But I can do things around the house, and today I am just piddling around the house," she said.  Franklin, 68, underwent surgery about two weeks ago that she has called "highly successful."
Both the Detroit News and the city's Fox TV station said this month that Franklin was battling pancreatic cancer, the disease that claimed actor Patrick Swayze last year.
She has not commented on her specific illness, but she did tell JET she would have more to say on her diagnosis shortly.