[FloridaMan88]

Originally Posted by cabletech94

I hear him on Carrington on 610. King is always coughing. Hope to hear from him periodically.

He described his health situation in his column last week…

Link: https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profoo...mia?cid=fmiatw

I have pneumonia. Many of you have sent along thoughts/remedies about my incessant cough over the past two months. As it turns out, it was about at its peak the weekend of the game. And when I had to climb four or five steep flights to the press box at Allegiant Stadium around noon Sunday, that basically cooked me.

A couple of writer friends, Sam Farmer and Nicki Jhabvala, saw me and had the presence of mind to tell the NFL’s VP of communications, Brian McCarthy, I was having trouble breathing. He sent two physicians for Medical Sports Group, a team of medics the league uses at the Super Bowl, Dr. Eric Ossman and Dr. Ricardo Martinez, to look at me. Good men. Calm and smart. They suggested we go into a nearby stairwell so I could be examined. Along came an EMT, Michael Campos from the Las Vegas Fire Department. Amazing what you can accomplish in a stairwell.

They took my vitals, and then I unbuttoned my shirt and Campos and an aide did an EKG. All were good, but they didn’t like the sound of my cough and said I should go to a hospital. I said I would—after I finished writing at 2:30 or so in the morning. So they gave me a breathing treatment (albuterol) to open my airways a bit, and they did it again at halftime. That’s how I experienced a muffled Usher—with a plastic breathing tube in my mouth.