WCCO reporter Bill Hudson was out of work for three weeks after sustaining his fourth concussion while trying out a new pair of hockey skates.
He’s been back on-air for two weeks. Doctors tell him he should be back to being himself in about three weeks.
Hudson says he took a spill while trying out a new pair of skates in his brother’s backyard rink.
“I started on figure skates, then graduated to hockey skates and started playing hockey probably in elementary school,” Hudson told the Minneapolis CBS-owned station.
“I remember taking a puck out of the net, taking a slap shot from center ice towards the net, and falling over backward,” said Hudson. “And I remember I hit really hard.”
He lost consciousness. He was rushed to the emergency room, where a doctor told him he suffered a concussion, his fourth.
“You hear that repetitive concussions, they’re cumulative, they build. And I wonder if that didn’t have something to do with the severity of this one. It was much more severe than any of the previous concussions,” Hudson said.