Posted on 11/03/2013 7:04:21 AM PST by Perdogg
Denver Broncos coach John Fox needs heart surgery and will miss several weeks, team spokesman Patrick Smyth confirmed Saturday night.
The 58-year-old Fox will undergo aortic valve replacement surgery early next week at a hospital in Charlotte, N.C.
The Broncos did not immediately name an interim head coach.
Fox had been told earlier about his heart condition and was hoping to put off the operation until February. As part of his trip to North Carolina over the Broncos' bye week, he met with his cardiologist and was told to seek medical attention immediately if he felt any discomfort.
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Anyway, prayers for the Coach's successful surgery and speedy recovery.
Shades of Chuck Pagano’s cancer last year. Get well coach
The team should be fine, Manning is the real coach, of the offense at least.
Yeah. Get it while you can. There won’t be any decent doctors left in a few years, and then Congress will get theirs. So we’ll at least have that satisfaction, miniscule though it may be.
Oh, and hang in there, Coach. Wonderful things can still be done with the heart.
Seems to be an NFL conspiracy against Italian HC’s (Pagano and Fox). ‘Volpe’ is Italian for ‘Fox’. Some boat people changed it when they came here to have Anglo names.
“The team should be fine, Manning is the real coach, of the offense at least.”
Yes. John Elway could step it; that would be fun, actually.
“Wonderful things can still be done with the heart.”
You are so right! I was 79 when I had the same surgery and I couldn’t feel any better and I’ll be 83 if I make it till Tuesday (which I intend to do, with the good Lords help.) also had 45 radiation treatments the same year for prostate cancer. This summer I dug 18 holes 2 feet deep each (with a hand operated post hole digger and a digging iron and put a split rail fence around my back yard. Like my tagline says, hang in there, don’t ever, ever consider giving up.
I’m not trying to prove a point, just going on with my life the best possible way I can.
And now we have forces trying to disrupt everything we have attained in our lives.
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