Channel 6 Sports Director Dave Webber should be back in the anchor chair next week but after eight weeks on the sidelines, the pace is going to change.

Dave hasn't been on the air since early in the College World Series. The tingling and numbness in the fingers signaled the problem.

Dave says, "You get kind of a feeling, just don't feel good and I attributed it to a little high blood pressure kicking up maybe."

When it continued Dave went to see his doctor and now, two months later, he says, "I want to tell all the guys out there who are too strong, too macho to get a check-up when they don't feel good. You really should go in. Going through an episode like I did and I didn't do anything, honest to God, I don't think I'd be sitting in this chair, talking to you now."

Tests revealed his carotid arteries that carry blood to the brain were blocked. The tingling he felt was the result of mini-strokes.

Doctors did surgery to clear out one side, then the other a week later.

Dave says, "I found myself calling old high school buddies I hadn't talked to in years just to say hi, spending time with family. They were all scared to death and you try and reassure them a little bit but they understand you're scared too. It was, you don't have to face that situation often, where something really horrible could have happened."

While Dave expects to be back on the air next week the public appearances, all the demands, will take a back seat to his health.

"It's just a matter of getting comfortable again so you can go out and do what you enjoy doing," he says. "Maybe not quite as strenuously as before but then, you gotta slow down sometime. I mean, I'm 41." (At least his sense of humor is back.)

Dave says eating better and exercising more have already paid off. He feels better and has more energy, something he also attributes to all the calls, cards, and encouragement he's received.