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KHAK 98.1 FM morning host Ryan 'Brain' Brainard is recovering at home after breaking his back in a fall last week. He was released from the hospital on Tuesday evening, four days after falling from a ladder. reports
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Brainard co-hosts the morning show "Brain and Courtlin" on the country music station, where he has worked for 21 years. He told listeners in an on-air call Wednesday that he hopes to return to work this week. He says he is sporting "a very attractive back brace" he will need to wear through the holidays and he requires the use of a walker.
Brainard's fall fractured the first lumbar vertebra — the uppermost of five lumbar bones in the lower back and the one that supports the upper body. He said physicians do not expect him to require surgery, but he has had to relearn to walk and to do things in new and creative ways.
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"I can kind of laugh about it now," he said while still hospitalized. "It wasn't very much fun Friday when they taught me how to pee lying down, but you know what, I'm happy I'm at that phase," he laughed.
Brainard's fall fractured the first lumbar vertebra — the uppermost of five lumbar bones in the lower back and the one that supports the upper body. He said physicians do not expect him to require surgery, but he has had to relearn to walk and to do things in new and creative ways.
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