“Lord willing, and the creek don’t rise, I am planning to be back in time for the start of the regular season,” Eli Gold said. The longtime Tide radio play-by-play announcer detailed his health struggles and recovery in an interview on Mobile's WNSP.
“My legs stopped working way back over a year ago,” he said. “I woke up one morning, and my legs wouldn’t work. I mean, I went to bed -- I was walking, I walk into the bedroom. I wake up the next morning, my legs don’t work.”
“This is not a shot at anybody at UAB or anybody else,” Gold told WNSP. “It’s just the fact of what it was. They just could not figure out what the deal was. They’d give me steroids to deal with one thing, and well, the steroids was masking something else. It was one of those things where they would say we’ve got to send you home. I would say, we’re not going home without a diagnosis.”“I just had no interest in eating,” he said. “I couldn’t keep anything down. I was sick.
“I’m doing fine,” he told WNSP on Thursday. “It’s not been easy. It’s not been simple, by any stretch. But I do have just one more chemotherapy session to go, and the doctors are really pleased, everybody is excited and if the doctors are pleased, then I’m pleased. I feel wonderful.” “I do walk best with a walker,” he said. “It’s not embarrassing -- if you’ve got to use it, you use it. I walk best with a walker. I can walk fairly well with a cane. I can also walk well without either one of them, but nobody really wants me to do that. You know what I’m saying? They’re afraid I’ll take a tumble and then not get up, because my legs are not yet strong enough to lift me. I say to lift me, we all chuckle, but I’m not the [size] guy I used to be.
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