Assume twice about hammering Mike Felger for taking a day without work.
After one more listener took a swipe on the 98.5 The Sports Hub host for lacking a present, Felger revealed that he was fairly busy with a critical problem on Monday.
“It’s more dramatic than it is. Thank God!” Felger mentioned on the finish of Tuesday’s “Felger and Mazz” program.
“But for about 12 to 18 hours, it was a little dramatic,” he added. “I was in the hospital yesterday after getting airlifted off Nantucket.”
His co-host “Big Jim” Murray was shocked.
“What?!” Murray responded.
“Yes, that happened,” Felger mentioned. “I was riding my bike like an idiot on Saturday night, and I had a bike accident. I fell off my bike… It happened in a blur. I don’t even know exactly what happened or how it happened, but I cracked my neck on I believe the handlebars. I just sort of like buckled and fell into the handlebars, and bam!”
“Big dumb Felger driving in the dark on little Nantucket streets, just lost my balance,” he mentioned, later including, “I’m a dope. I’m a big dummy. It was all on me.”
Felger didn’t go to the hospital straight away, as a substitute heading to mattress. When he awoke Sunday morning, his neck was sore. His daughter advised him to go to the close by hospital on the island, the place he bought a CT scan.
The picture revealed that there have been air pockets in his neck — which can imply an inside damage, corresponding to a torn esophagus or windpipe.
“So I think I’m going to get the X-ray, clean bill of health and walk out of there, and they say, ‘No, we found these things, and we gotta get you somewhere pretty quick,’ ” Felger mentioned.
They instantly bought the medical helicopter to reply, telling him surgical procedure is perhaps wanted quickly and the process must be finished on the mainland.
Felger was shipped to Massachusetts Normal Hospital, the place he was for 12 to 18 hours, as they ran a litany of exams and luckily “couldn’t find any damage inside the neck.”
He was reduce on the neck through the accident, and docs imagine some air popped in when he cracked his neck on the handlebars.
“But there was a 12- to 18-hour stretch there where I didn’t know if I was looking at like throat surgery or neck surgery, or something like that,” Felger mentioned. “Which let me tell you, as a talk show host, I’m not looking for neck surgery, I’m not looking for throat surgery. That was not in the cards.”
“Oh my God, am I lucky,” he later added. “Oh my God, am I lucky.”
Felger additionally thanked the hospital employees and the Boston MedFlight workers, together with one who even requested him about ex-Bruins star Brad Marchand.
Co-host Michael Holley mentioned he’s glad that Felger listened to his daughter when she mentioned to go to the hospital.
“Because I think a lot of us are the same. ‘I’m fine. I don’t want to do that. I’ll be fine, let me just be here,’ ” Holley mentioned. “I’m glad you listened.”
Felger at all times receives a boatload of important emails when he’s gone for a day.
He has criticized athletes and coaches prior to now for being absent — together with Pink Sox supervisor Alex Cora lacking a recreation a number of hours after his daughter’s close by commencement, and Patriots QB Drake Maye lacking Head Coach Mike Vrabel’s first press convention whereas Maye was away proposing to his then-girlfriend.
