Once regarded as the Nebraska football program's strongest-ever player, Keven Lightner earlier this summer felt he was in the best shape physically that he'd been in for at least 20 years.
He says he hadn't taken more than a week off from workouts since he was 18.
All that work in the gym saved his life. Literally.
"The doctor said if I wouldn't have been as strong as I was, I wouldn't have made it," says the 55-year-old Lightner, who left CHI St. Elizabeth on Aug. 30 following a monthlong stay as he battled an especially severe case of COVID-19.