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<\/p>\nFox Footy and the wider footy community are wrapping their arms around Jonathan Brown after the beloved Brisbane Lions icon revealed his shock health diagnosis.<\/p>\n
On Friday night, Brown took to Instagram to share that he\u2019d undergone surgery on Wednesday to remove a low-grade brain tumour that was discovered in a routine scan. <\/p>\n
Brown posted a heartwarming photo of himself and wife Kylie in hospital, along with a message detailing his condition. <\/p>\n
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\u201cAfter undergoing a routine scan, I was recently made aware of a shadow on my brain that turned out to be a low-grade brain tumour,\u201d Brown shared on Instagram on Friday night. <\/p>\n
\u201cI underwent surgery Wednesday with a positive outcome. <\/p>\n
\u201cI understand a surgery of this nature creates interest and once I have recuperated, I will share my experience, but for now I need to take some time to rest and recover.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Fox Footy\u2019s Friday Night Footy broadcast, great mate Garry Lyon shared some words of support. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re throwing our thoughts out to one of our great mates, Jonathan Brown, who sits on this panel and has done for a long, long time, and one of the all-time favourites at Fox Footy,\u201d began great mate Garry Lyon on Fox Footy\u2019s Friday Night Footy broadcast. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s at home watching this, making a nuisance of himself with the beautiful Kylie, but he\u2019s had a pretty challenging week or so. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe underwent surgery on Wednesday and had a really positive outcome. Spoke to him about two hours ago, he was in the car, he was full of beans, bouncing around talking to Kylie. <\/p>\n
\u201cOn behalf of all of us at Fox Footy and the broader footy community – there have been few more popular players than Jonathan Brown, and there\u2019s few tougher – we send you our love, big fella. <\/p>\n
\u201cTake it easy, rest up, recuperate, we look forward to seeing your big ugly mug back on here in the not-too-distant future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox Footy and the wider footy community are wrapping their arms around Jonathan Brown after the beloved Brisbane…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,1365,11289,273334,3231,19052,273336,273332,273339,273335,273337,273333,85,273338],"class_list":["post-552589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brain-surgery","tag-footy-community","tag-garry-lyon-on-fox-footy","tag-jack-jovanovski","tag-jonathan-brown","tag-low-grade-brain-tumour","tag-positive-outcome","tag-routine-scan","tag-shock-health","tag-shock-health-diagnosis","tag-shock-health-scare","tag-sports","tag-wraps-arms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}