Cincy Radio: Best Wishes To WLW's Scott Sloan

Scott Sloan

WLW 700 AM radio personality Scott Sloan is on the mend at home after unexpected consequences from routine back surgery landed him in intensive care.

According to Sloan's Facebook profile, he had surgery Jan. 7 to fuse two vertebrae and relieve 16 years of bulging disc pain. The spinal fusion was successful with no drainage from the wounds.

By Jan. 9, however, inflammation of the colon caused by the bacteria C. diff. (Clostridium difficile) forced Sloan into the ICU at UC Health West Chester Hospital.

"In 24 hours, I went from everything being fine to my blood pressure going down into the 50s over 40s, fever spiking to 103 degrees -- started having tremors and seizures because of that," Sloan told WCPO News9.

Doctors at the hospital called C. diff. the "cholera of our time," as it causes diarrhea and serious intestinal conditions and is easily transmitted.

Healthy individuals typically have enough good bacteria in the intestinal tract to ward off infection, but if they are depleted (as they were in Sloan's case due to antibiotics he took in early January against a sinus infection), the condition can quickly deteriorate.

700 WLW's radio personality Mike McConnell has been filling in for Sloan as he recovers.