Positive Thoughts For Jon Wallach
• We are sending our very best wishes to Jon Wallach, the Headline Guy and 3rd mic for the Toucher and Rich morning show on Beasley Sports-Talk WBZ-FM (98.5 The Sports Hub)/Boston, who is taking medical leave from the show to undergo a complicated surgery today to remove a benign tumor behind his ear.
Wallach, who has been part of the Toucher and Rich show since The Sports Hub’s launch a decade ago, broke the news at the end of Wednesday’s show.
As the Boston.com reports, “Wallach said he’d noticed over the summer that he was losing hearing in his right ear. He informed his doctor and underwent several tests without finding a solution. Finally, an MRI at Mass General Hospital revealed the tumor, diagnosed as an acoustic neuroma, behind his right eardrum. “An acoustic neuroma 99 times out of a hundred is benign, and fortunately for me it is benign as well,” said Wallach, who informed listeners that after getting a second opinion he chose the option of surgery over radiation and will undergo the procedure Friday morning.
“It’s not an easy surgical procedure,” Wallach admitted. “The surgery is nine hours long and I’ll be laid up for at least a month and probably six weeks. For that reason I’m going to have to take a leave of absence from the program.”
He added, “It hurts to do this because I love coming here every day, but it’s necessary, unfortunately. The people here at the radio station have been fantastic about this.” Wallach is expected to be back on the radio sometime after the New Year.
