Health care workers are true All-Americans
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Sportscaster Bob Brooks had surgery March 13 due to complications from a hiatal hernia. He spent one week in the hospital and is recovering at his home in Cedar Rapids).
I'm trying to get back in the ballgame!
I'm looking forward to rehabbing and getting back to the sports desk at K-Memory. I'm anxious to do that, but not over-anxious.
The situation is that the rehab is being done at home. It's going, but it's going to take some time and I thus have seen the world of sports in a very, very different light by following on television instead of in person. And as we've been talking here at my home, you think of the things that have happened in sports in the last few days.The world has been turned upside-down by developments with the Peyton Manning story, the Tim Tebow story and the National Football League's cleansing of itself. And along with the Madness of March and the basketball tournament coming down to the title game, it is an amazing thing to see sometimes.
Even though you wouldn't want to go through what I went through, the amazing thing is that you've got to stick with it every, every day and keep moving forward. With the baseball season coming up and with all of the personalities that have been brought forward in recent days, I never could have dreamed about the things that are being tossed around.
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