Robin Gibb unable to speak

Singer Robin Gibb is still battling colon cancer in hospital, and is only able to communicate by blinking his eyes, as they has a tracheotomy tube in his neck.

His spouse Dwina and sons Robin-John and Spencer stay at his bedside, and they is regularly visited by his showbiz friends.

"He cannot speak at the moment because they has a tracheotomy, and they has to communicate by blinking his eyes," femalefirst. co. uk quoted singer and close mate Jim

Dooley as saying.

"He will must re-learn how to walk. It is 50/50 whether they comes through this but Dwina is a fabulous woman and is giving him all the love you can give," they said.