Lonnie Quinn, the meteorologist for CBS New York, is again on the air this week, after experiencing a traumatic brain injury in March.

“Hear, I missed you guys greater than you understand,” he told his coworkers on the Might 5 broadcast. “I imply, that is a enterprise the place we’re type of related to what we do, and I am definitely related with you guys.”

As Quinn, who’s additionally featured on CBS Night Information, sat on the information desk, footage confirmed him being welcomed again with hugs. He famous that he’d been introduced with a cake, as nicely, at his employer for 18 years.

“It was a very main head injury,” Quinn defined. “As soon as the MRI got here again, and that is when the medical doctors got here in and mentioned, ‘Okay, nicely, that is really a traumatic brain injury, not simply a concussion. You have acquired to be out of work for six to eight weeks, and we simply acquired to [have] relaxation and leisure and get you again to it.’”

Quinn had explained in March that he went by means of a scary scenario after he “took a wallop” to his head.

“The large concern within the medical group, they need to see if there’s a brain bleed since you will be useless within the morning when you do not deal with that,” mentioned Quinn, whose preliminary scans have been clear. “So I used to be free to go dwelling. And I acquired on with my life, as all of us do once we bang our heads, proper?”

However he confronted a scary scenario one evening when, simply earlier than happening the air, he abruptly could not see out of his left eye. After about quarter-hour, it went away.

“I did the newscast,” Quinn mentioned. “However that is when our information director — who actually seems to be out for her folks — mentioned, ‘Okay, you are not driving dwelling. We’re gonna get you a automobile. You are going to the hospital.’”

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It was there that a neurologist noticed a extra extreme injury on an MRI. He mentioned he can be going by means of bodily rehab and cognitive remedy.

Rob Marciano, who works with Quinn at CBS, was one of many many joyful to welcome Quinn again.

“This man is a good buddy, a gifted climate professional, and throughout nice human,” he captioned a photograph of the 2. “It has been a enjoyable privilege to fill-in for him the previous few weeks as he heals and works through concussion restoration. We’re all so psyched to have him wholesome and again in motion!!”