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Bay Area radio host Tom Tolbert recovering from emergency heart surgery

Affable radio host and former NBA player Tom Tolbert underwent emergency heart surgery last week to repair a thoracic aortic aneurysm, he revealed in a recorded message on his KNBR show Wednesday.

While describing the scary incident, the 51-year-old Tolbert reassured his audience that he’s recovering well and hopes to return to the airwaves in two weeks.

“No promises. Should be good to go,” Tolbert said during his 10-minute message. “Again, no promises.”
That’s certainly a much better prognosis than Tolbert feared he was facing after being rushed from an East Bay hospital by ambulance to Stanford Medical Center at 2 a.