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WLEX (Lexington) Anchor Nancy Cox left the air back in April to have back surgery and was expected to be back by now.....but she isn't.
“You feel like, ‘Wow, I’m getting back into life.’ But not all of you is ready for that,” Cox says.
In mid-June, Cox said she was targeting an August return. But now she says a combination of some complications including vertigo and a little overdoing it after she was cleared to drive again have set plans back at least a month.
“I’m disappointed,” Cox said. “I knew going in that it was a very serious surgery, but I expected everything to go like clockwork, exactly like the surgeons said, and they did not.
“I’ve had a great summer with both kids — well, a great time, really,” Cox said Monday. “It didn’t matter the season. Just being home with them more, of course that’s good. So, I took my eye off the goal, just a little bit.”
Cox’s surgery to address chronic, debilitating back issues has been a public ordeal, between features on “LEX 18 News,” social media and things like the paper calling to ask how she’s doing.
“A lot of people might find that invasive,” Cox said. “But I’ve been on television in Lexington for exactly half my life, so it feels natural to me to share this publicly. Now I have boundaries and lines, and things I don’t discuss with everyone. “
As to when she’ll be back in the thick of things, Cox says she’s hopeful for September, but not setting dates at this point.
“My hope would be maybe I’d have some quick progress with this vertigo and I’d be back on the air before the end of August,” she said. “But we sort of do these things 30 days at a time, and then re-evaluate.”
