Longtime Nets scorer Herb Turetzky is among the many who have battled the novel coronavirus throughout the pandemic. But Zach Braziller of the New York Post is reporting that the Nets scorer since 1967 is “on the mend.”
Turetzky has been out of the hospital for some time, staying at St. Francis Hospital on Long Island from April 11 — the day he “felt weak and was unable to do his normal upper-body exercises from his wheelchair” and found out he had a 102.5-degree temperature — to April 14. Monday was a major day for the 74-year-old, as Braziller reports:
With the help of his wife Jane, he was able to get out of bed and sit in his wheelchair. Next week, he hopes to be able to sit in the chair on his porch and possibly take a ride in the car.
Turetzky told the Post he feels, “very, very lucky,” adding:
I saw the numbers — I see them now, 91,000 people dead. I never had to get up on the ventilators. They said that 80 percent of people that went on ventilators never came off of it. That number stuck in my head — 80 percent on ventilators never came off of it. That means they’re going to die or live on ventilators the rest of their life.