Terry Foster
Terry Foster, a former Detroit News sports columnist who is a fixture on sports talk radio, 97.1 FM "The Ticket," revealed Monday that he suffered a minor stroke.
Foster, who co-hosts the afternoon radio show, Valenti and Foster, suffered the stroke approximately 10 days ago and was briefly hospitalized, the Detroit News The News reports. He will undergo rehab.
In a column posted Monday on CBS Detroit website, Foster described what he had gone through being inside an MRI machine at Henry Ford Hospital in West Bloomfield so doctors could figure out if "the tiny vessel in the back of my head, that caused a minor stroke, completely closed or is it still allowing a trickle of badly needed blood flow."
Foster writes:
I am recovering nicely. I am not fully recovered but they expect me to be. I have been motivated and stimulated by these people. I could not be in better hands. And the plan is rehab and to get me back on the air by Oct. 3.
Let me be blunt one more time. I suffered a minor stroke but I am going to fully recover. I can already feel a difference in how I speak and how I type. My fine motor skills are a little messed up in my right hand and I am not ready to throw a pitch from the pitcher’s mound.
But I feel a little better every day.
I am lucky. I am fortunate. This is a wake-up call.
Damn. This is big stuff. I am in the @detroitnews and the @detroitfreep. I feel like Matthew Stafford for the day.
— Terry Foster (@TerryFoster971) August 22, 2016
