Eric Berry Is Back — KC Chiefs News

-Nov. 20: After the Chiefs’ 24-20 loss to the Raiders in a Thursday night game in Oakland, Berry feels a great deal of discomfort in his chest.

On June 22, a follow-up PET scan showed Berry was cancer-free.

“It was awful”, he explained.

Sports gave Berry an advantage, and not just because he entered this fight in elite physical shape.

“Everything that we did was for Eric”.

We’ll be hearing from Berry this afternoon.

“At the beginning, you kind of put football aside”. It looks like he made it. There were some tough days for him. The days he struggled to choke down food, all of it tasteless.

He would later set goals of simply trying to do five pushups.

“There’s always a different place, a more special place, certainly in my heart and other people that we have been through the same thing”, said Holtz.

“That meant so much to me”. “Get it out of your system and go back to work”.

But that didn’t dissuade him from pressing forward.

“There were times where I would work out, and I’d be crying after the workout”, Berry said.

Berry understands that this is just the start of his road back to being one of the NFL’s best defensive backs.

Jones said another neat aspect of Berry’s story is how close the star safety has gotten with Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, who played for Jones and his staff at Cincinnati.

It all meant something to him. It meant a lot. “Just because it’s not a cloudy day doesn’t mean the sun is not shining”. That’s the only thing you can do in that situation. It was not an easy thing on him or his family.

Berry says he’s ready for that, and proud – not just of how far he’s come but by what his experience can do for others. “Without them, I don’t know how I would have pushed through”. “He’s been great with that up to this point and I think that will continue through”.

“I was training while doing chemo”. “He opted to have IVs every time that he got the chemotherapy”.

He communicated regularly with Indianapolis Colts head coach Chuck Pagano, who had his own battle several years ago with leukemia.

“He looked pretty good out here”, Reid said, via B.J. Kissel of the team’s website. “That’s why I wouldn’t change the process for anything”. “I’m excited to be back on the field”. He points out that some have to go to chemo 10 straight days, sometimes more. My dad, we’d fall asleep on the couch watching TV, watching Lord of the Rings or whatever. “He has really done a good job there”. “It hasn’t been like that since high school”.

Berry continued to talk through the tears with his father, James. “We didn’t have him do team (drills). You’ll always be there for him and you’ll always be his father”. Shortly thereafter Berry received a round of tests where a mass was discovered on the right side of his chest, leading to the diagnosis of lymphoma.

The Pro Bowl safety successfully won the battle with Hodgkin’s Lymphona eight months after the cancer diagnosis.