Nashville Predators broadcaster Pete Weber gives health update after brain surgery

It was 90 minutes Pete Weber doesn't remember.

It was 90 minutes Pete Weber won't forget.

The Nashville Predators radio announcer underwent successful brain surgery Monday morning to insert a shunt in his head to help correct balance issues he's been having since mid-October. A condition called normal pressure hydrocephalus, a disorder that caused loss of balance because his brain was taking on too much fluid, was the culprit.

After spending Monday night in the hospital, Weber, 71, returned home Tuesday morning.

"Walked into our house around 10:30 this morning," he said.

Keyword "walked."

"I like the reality," he said.

Weber also likes the reality of returning to work, which he has high hopes of doing Saturday when the Predators face the Buffalo Sabres at Bridgestone Arena. He said he'll find out Friday from doctors whether he has the green light to return to work.

Weber, who has not been traveling since mid-October, hopes to be back on the road in three weeks.

"I've felt great since coming out of anesthesia Monday morning," Weber said.

Not long before doctors at Vanderbilt went to work on Weber, his phone rang.

On the line was NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.

"Just wanted to wish me well," Weber said.

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Then came time for his surgery.

"I'm breathing into this plastic mask to knock myself out," Weber said. "Next thing I knew, I woke up after about an hour and a half or whatever."

Not long after he returned home, Weber returned to the radio, joining Sirius Satellite Radio to talk some hockey and "give a Pete Weber health update." Weber said he has missed calling games but has taken his newfound spare time to reconnect with people he hasn't talked to in years. And to read, of course.

Weber began noticing his balance issues not long after the team returned from its trip to Europe to begin the season. A battery of tests didn't reveal much at first, but after the second of two falls doctors performed a spinal tap on Weber.

Weber temporarily regained his balance, which led doctors to the normal pressure hydrocephalus diagnosis. Weber continued to call home games for the Predators in the meantime, though he did so from the press box rather than the radio booth to save himself from having to climb flights of stairs.

"I think two-plus years of COVID interrupting everything maybe prepared me a little bit for what this will be like," Weber said. "Not that I like it at all."

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