Jim Donovan Part 3: The Browns broadcaster’s huge heart and long battle with cancer – Terry Pluto

CLEVELAND, Ohio – For Jim Donovan, it didn’t start out like cancer. No clue it was cancer. No strange bumps, nothing much out of the ordinary.

His next stop was his family doctor, more blood tests, more of the same results … white blood cells going up. He was diagnosed with“An alarm went off in my head,” said Donovan. “My dad had that. He was very understated about it. I remembered him saying, ‘I have this thing called CLL.’” But the numbers didn’t lie. Something was very wrong. After about two years, they began treating it with chemotherapy,

“I was dead set against it,” he said. “They talked about me being in the hospital for something like six months. I’d be away from work. It was overwhelming. I kept wanting to treat it the way we’d been doing.”“I was off for most of the summer,” he said. “Nothing was said publicly. I came back in time for the Browns preseason games. That was in 2008. I remember because it was the summer when Brett Favre was traded to the Jets. … Crazy how I remember things that way.

“The night before the game, Doug went and got one of the team doctors to come to my room,” said Donovan. “I was really sick and had a fever. The doctor said he’d watch me. The next morning, I felt awful as I went up to the booth in Kansas City.” Donovan was so absorbed with the game, the pain and fatigue went away. For three hours, he felt wonderful.

Donovan recalled all the nurses and doctors in masks and gowns, the kind later seen worn by medical people during the COVID pandemic. Knott remembers all of this as “a scary time. Jimmy was getting hit with one thing after another. But he said very little about it. Jimmy is an incredible guy.” For Donovan, there are trips to the doctors and repeated checks of his blood count. He also regularly visits the dermatologist. Anyone with his history knows cancer can return.

This was in 1988 when Donovan was a 32-year-old sportscaster. Hooley and Donovan needed green ties for a St. Patrick’s Day show and planned to shop together.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

I LOVE Jim Donovan’s energy and enthusiasm, not to mention his professionalism. Loved Nev Chandler for the same reasons. I remember seeing Jimmy almost forty years ago, walking through the Arcade on those weekdays that I played mandolin on the bridge.

Great series of stories on our beloved play by play guy for our beloved Browns. Jim’s a class act that all of Cleveland loves. We’re. Leased to have him.

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