Tom Brokaw battling cancer, wheelchair-bound: Source

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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.”

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.

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