Cary Edmondson-USA TODAY Sports
The battle is ongoing, but Tim Flannery will take his wins where he can find them.
Thanksgiving was a victory. The former Giants coach, who’s fighting a lingering staph infection, left a San Diego hospital to return to his Southern California home in time for Thursday’s festivities.
In a Facebook post, the 63-year-old indicated he’ll again have his old home for a while, celebrating while lying down with smiling family all around him.
“My beautiful family came from The 4 directions tonight to bring their love and thanksgiving,” Flannery wrote Wednesday, “and break me out of the hospital and take me home and had a hospital bed waiting for me. I love you all. Let’s beat this thing.”
Flannery, who was on the staff of three World Series clubs with Bruce Bochy, has been fighting off the infection since being rushed to care Oct. 18, saying he has underwent at least seven operations since.
In a Saturday Facebook post — where he and his family have been updating followers about his condition — Flannery said he had 21 more days of antibiotic infusion to go. In one post, his wife, Donna — his “lifetime nurse,” as he called her — was giving him the dosage.
“I haven’t left this bed except for a moment here and there the last 6 weeks or so,” Flannery wrote Sunday. “When you’re surrounded by faith and love and hope, it can be done. If that’s what’s needed to heal. Thanks for the prayers friends.”
Thank you for all your prayers through the years. I do not take the Spiritual realm for granted. I believe in the…
Posted by Tim Flannery and Lunatic Fringe on Monday, November 30, 2020