Hawks Long Time Announcer Suffers On Air Medical Emergency

Hope it's not more.
It can take some days to recover from a dehydration, I got one when younger (but in summer, too much sport and not drinking enough) and 5 days after, I was still unable to simply watch TV for 5 minutes without being nauseous. Think it took me at least 10 days to recover, so at Bob's age, it may need some weeks

jayu70 · Post #7 » by **jayu70** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 2:46 am

Bob Update....Looking good.

The last thing Bob Rathbun remembers is sitting in a chair and thinking, “Just let me get through this.” His stomach had been doing flips for two hours. He already had made one unscheduled visit to the restroom, and he felt that something bad was coming around the corner again. But he had worked before despite not feeling great, and he had a live shot to do for the Hawks’ pregame show, and he felt he couldn’t just bail, so he took his seat next to Dominique Wilkins, gripped a microphone, looked into a television camera and forced a smile. “I was thinking, ‘I know I’m going to be sick again. But let me just get through this, then I’ll go vomit, and I’ll do the game, and then I’ll go home and go to bed,’” he said. “So I got in the chair and made some innocuous comment about AJ Griffin, and the next thing I remember was an EMT guy was standing in front of me.”

– via Jeff Schultz @ The Athletic

When Rathbun opened his eyes several seconds later, he saw the EMT and he Wilkins looking at him. Wilkins: “Bob? Are you OK, buddy?” Rathbun: “Yeah, I’m OK.” Wilkins: “You passed out.” Rathbun: “I did?” Days later, Wilkins recalled, “I was like, ‘Let’s get this man in a chair, get him out of here, get him to the hospital. Something is wrong.’”
– via Jeff Schultz @ The Athletic

Rathbun has missed four games, beginning the night that started it all on Dec. 5. He will be home resting when the Hawks play in Orlando on Wednesday and Charlotte on Friday. There are tentative plans for him to return next week. It can’t be soon enough for him because watching games from the couch isn’t his thing. He saw the final frantic minutes of an overtime win over Chicago play out on TV and joked, “I was guarding against relapse.” Bob went viral, and not in the good way. He hasn’t Googled himself or typed his name into YouTube. He has no desire to relive that moment. “I’ll never watch it,” he said.
– via Jeff Schultz @ The Athletic

jayu70 · Post #8 » by **jayu70** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 2:54 am

Good for you Bawb!

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Post #9 » by **Jamaaliver** » Thu Dec 15, 2022 4:59 am

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