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It comes after Brown in March underwent surgery to remove a low-grade brain tumour.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Fox Footy on Monday night, Brown said Kylie \u201cannoyed me into\u201d getting a brain scan \u2013 ultimately, a life-altering decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just the nagging wife \u2013 and before you blow up at home, she\u2019s got a saying now that \u2018nagging wives save lives\u2019,\u201d Brown said with a smile on Fox Footy\u2019s On The Couch.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess there\u2019s probably always that doubt when you read all the headlines about head knocks over the journey.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyway, I finally gave in to Kyles and I got a head scan. Obviously, the last thing I was expecting when I got the phone call that I had a brain tumour \u2013 but I had a brain tumour nonetheless.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I think that was the first for the AFL program, they don\u2019t normally expect that. But fortunately enough, Gavin Davis \u2013 the surgeon, who\u2019s a big Melbourne supporter \u2013 he was able to get it out and fortunately enough it wasn\u2019t a serious tumour.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked by fellow On The Couch panellist Jordan Lewis what his immediate thoughts were upon receiving the brain tumour news, Brown said: \u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable \u2026 It\u2019s the unknown, no doubt about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got told on the first phone call you need an open brain surgery. I hadn\u2019t even spoken to the surgeon, you go: \u2018Hang on a minute, you normally don\u2019t have open brain surgery for something minor.\u2018<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was two things with the tumour: Can they get it out or is it going to be problematic in trying to access it? Obviously mine was a fair way down.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then, secondly, what grade is it? For the best part of 10 days, you\u2019re hoping and praying it\u2019s not a Grade 3 or 4 \u2013 which is obviously the worst and you\u2019re in big trouble then.<\/p>\n
\u201cFortunately enough they get it out and then you still have to wait for the initial results. I had to wait another four or five days and got the word back that it certainly wasn\u2019t a Grade 3 or 4 tumour, so you breathe a deep sigh of relief.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut, yeah, I tell you what, it puts things into perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jonathan Brown was had to be back with Bucks!Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
Brown then opened up about his thought-process both immediately after the diagnosis and just before his surgery.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember flying home back to the Gold Coast that night \u2013 because I said I had to go home to the family for a few days to process this. My head was spinning, just thoughts running through your mind \u2026 You\u2019re just hoping and praying that it\u2019s not \u2018it\u2019, because you\u2019re thinking of the kids and the family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to get back to normality the next day \u2013 I shot my lowest ever golf score the next day, so it put things into perspective because the last thing I was thinking about was whether I was about to sink this putt, so it was good for the golf game!<\/p>\n
\u201cA few days later, the last thought I had before I went to sleep \u2026 I\u2019m lying on my bed and at the end of my bed is the TV screens where Gavin is going to work off the screens and there\u2019s my brain just sitting there, a road map of my brain. I\u2019m thinking: \u2018Six or seven days ago, I was going about my business, how the hell did I get here a week later? I\u2019m about to have my skull cut open and a tumour is going to come out of my head and I hope like hell I wake up and I\u2019m still the way I am normally.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
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Brown said he feels back to normality and exercising, claiming he \u201cblew my mates up at a training session the other day, they couldn\u2019t go with me\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel good, I\u2019ve watched the footy the last couple of weeks,\u201d he said. \u201cI was incredibly fatigued as you could imagine after it, but I feel in really good shape and my brain tissue hasn\u2019t been impacted, apart from the tumour coming out.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was about the size of a golf ball, so it shows you how delicate and clever these people are. And in Gavin\u2019s case, he\u2019s a marvel because he went in there and he just did a slight nick and my brain function hasn\u2019t been affected, so I continue on to lead a normal life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brown was at the Gabba on Saturday to see his beloved Lions go down to ladder-leaders Fremantle, which claimed its 11th straight win.<\/p>\n
Browns said the Dockers had \u201cmatured into that contender\u201d many thought they could become, while they also had \u201cthe two most influential big men in the competition\u201d in Luke Jackson and Josh Treacy. He added: \u201cThey\u2019ve got a really good spine, a deep midfield now \u2026 they\u2019ve got good speed and good role players.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for reigning premiers Brisbane, which has now lost its past three games, Brown said there were alarm bells.<\/p>\n
Zorko out for longer than expected | 01:18<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve all watched the Lions the last couple of years. The two point of differences where they were stronger than every other team was obviously midfield depth \u2013 they would overwhelm you with the talent in there and the pressure they applied to the opposition \u2013 and then also their ball movement, on the back of Dayne Zorko. So those two factors are misfiring at the moment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe midfield clearly are all down. Lachie Neale\u2019s had a pretty good year, but the rest of them have all struggled. And no Dayne Zorko (due to injury), so they\u2019re struggling to move the ball<\/p>\n
\u201cIs it hunger or is it fatigue? Two concerning things as a Lions watcher and supporter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way they got belted last week against GWS reminded me of Sydney when they got belted late in \u201824 and never recovered \u2013 (lost by) 112 points to Port Adelaide \u2013 and obviously the Lions got belted by GWS (in Round 11).<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then \u2018Simmo\u2019 (Adam Simpson) doing the commentary on the weekend saying the Lions look like they\u2019re getting \u2018bullied\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo troubling things, for me, in terms of their premiership chances. So they\u2019ve got to turn it around.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Triple premiership Lion Jonathan Brown has paid tribute to his persistent wife Kylie, whose determination to see her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5564,987,976,5555,5566,5553,5542,5533,5537,5546,5549,5562,5558,5538,5543,5548,5550,5561,5545,44,1913,5563,5534,5532,5544,5540,5535,5554,5541,5565,968,5559,5536,5560,5552,4834,5556,969,5547,5551,5557,5539],"class_list":["post-12846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-adam-simpson","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-ball-movement","tag-ben-dixon","tag-ben-waterworth","tag-bounce-back","tag-brain-function","tag-brain-scan","tag-brain-surgery","tag-brain-tissue","tag-brain-tumour","tag-brain-tumour-news","tag-brisbane-lions","tag-chris-fagan","tag-defensive-efforts","tag-gavin-davis","tag-gold-coast","tag-golf","tag-golf-ball","tag-head-knocks","tag-head-scan","tag-jonathan-brown","tag-jordan-lewis","tag-josh-treacy","tag-lachie-neale","tag-leigh-montagna","tag-low-grade-brain-tumour","tag-nagging-wives-save","tag-oceania","tag-open-brain-surgery","tag-port-adelaide","tag-premiership-chances","tag-quad-strain","tag-queensland","tag-role-players","tag-south-australia","tag-suns-brace","tag-the-gabba","tag-triple-premiership","tag-wives-save-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}