CLEVELAND, Ohio – “Hey, Terry! How ya doing? I’m doing great!”

It was Bernie Kosar calling Tuesday morning from University Hospitals, where he had a liver transplant on Monday.

“The doctors are amazed,” said the former Browns quarterback. “They can’t believe I’m doing this good.”

Bernie’s voice was strong. His optimism remains unrelenting. His sense of humor, it’s pure Bernie.

“I’ve got early dementia,” he said. “I got early Parkinson’s. I’ve got a lot of stuff going on, but I’m telling you – I haven’t felt this good in years.”

That wasn’t the case a few days ago.

Bernie was suffering from major bleeding, some of it coming out of his mouth and nose. He was in the hospital for a liver transplant, but he couldn’t have the operation until the bleeding stopped.

It was life & death

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