Dallas Radio: Best Wishes For Ron Chapman ~ CookingFood.Org

Ron Chapman, Dallas Morning News

Since suffering a stroke on December 23, when he “began speaking in a foreign tongue,” Dallas radio legend and broadcasting hall-of-famer Ron Chapman has been hospitalized.

But today, his voice still a little slow but decidedly more steady, he quotes a song from Pinocchio: “I’m free, there are no strings on me.”

The Dallas Morning News reports Chapman went home Tuesday, just a few days after doctors removed his feeding tubes and told him he was free — and free to return to solid food for the first time since the night before Christmas Eve, when Nance Chapman called 911.

For the past month, he’s been on a steady diet of “mashed potatoes, smashed peas and smashed meat of some sort” — sounds appetizing. “But when I left, they said. ‘You can eat anything you want. And I said, ‘What’s the number for Domino’s?’”

Ron and Nance will likely “be hiding out at home for a few months” while he recovers, he says. “My left side doesn’t do what my right side does.”