DENVER (AP) — Nuggets coach George Karl has started showing up at work on occasion and getting out more as he slowly recovers from throat cancer and its complications.
Kim Van Deraa, Karl’s life partner and mother of their 5-year-old daughter, wrote in her blog Tuesday that Karl is still using a feeding tube for most of his nutrition but occasionally eats peaches.
She wrote that he is getting out to more places than just his doctor’s office, where he frequently has to go to make sure his blood-thinning medication levels are right. Karl has twice been hospitalized with blood clots in his legs or lungs following his six-week radiation and chemotherapy treatment.
Karl, who turned 59 last week, has said he intends to return to coaching later this summer, health permitting.
