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

“Pay attention, I missed you guys greater than you already know,” he told his coworkers on the Might 5 broadcast. “I imply, that is a enterprise the place we’re form of linked to what we do, and I am definitely linked 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 offered with a cake, as properly, 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, properly, that is truly 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 rest and get you again to it.'”

Quinn had explained in March that he went via 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 may be useless within the morning should you do not deal with that,” mentioned Quinn, whose preliminary scans had been clear. “So I used to be free to go residence. And I acquired on with my life, as all of us do after we bang our heads, proper?”

However he confronted a scary scenario one night time when, simply earlier than happening the air, he instantly 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 appears out for her individuals — mentioned, ‘Okay, you are not driving residence. We’re gonna get you a automotive. 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 could be going via bodily rehab and cognitive remedy.

Rob Marciano, who works with Quinn at CBS, was one of many many completely happy 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!!”