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(NewsNation) — Beloved newsman Tom Brokaw, 84, is confined to a wheelchair and has around-the-clock home health aides looking after him in his brave battle against incurable blood cancer.
Brokaw, who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2013, was seen taking in the warm fall weather this week in Manhattan’s Central Park near the man-made pond where tourists race remote-controlled sailboats.
“He was in the wheelchair, with his wife and the home health aide, being wheeled around the pond,” my spy said. “He and his wife looked so happy. It was sweet — sad, but sweet.”
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Tom Brokaw with host Dan Rather as he visits SiriusXM Studios on December 10, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images) -
Tom Brokaw (C), network television journalist and author, rides to a morning session during the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 06, 2022 in Sun Valley, Idaho. The world’s most wealthy and powerful businesspeople from the media, finance, and technology will converge at the Sun Valley Resort this week for the exclusive conference. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) -
Tom Brokaw, former anchor of NBC Nightly News, arrives at the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 9, 2019 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Every July, some of the world’s most wealthy and powerful businesspeople from the media, finance, and technology spheres converge at the Sun Valley Resort for the exclusive weeklong conference. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Brokaw talks about his condition
In an interview with CBS’ Jane Pauley last year, Brokaw said, “I’ve had a bad experience. … I kept thinking bad things wouldn’t happen to me. But as I grew older, I began to develop this condition. And what you try to do is control it as much as you can.”
Brokaw, who was promoting his book “Never Give Up: A Prairie Family’s Story,” talked about how cancer had changed his life, saying, “I’ve had to change my life in some ways. I really had to give up my daily activity with NBC. You know, I had to walk away from them as they were walking away from me. I just wasn’t the same person. … And so, for the first time in my life, I was kind of out there, you know, in a place I had never been in my life.”
A rep for NBC and Brokaw declined to comment.