Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Over the past year or so, Bob Grote said he has ended up with a new cardiologist and a new gastroenterologist at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and, back here in the Dayton area, his family doctor retired so he has a new general practitioner, too.
After their initial review of his medical charts, Grote — one of the most fabled athletes in Wright State sports history — said all of the new doctors came up with the same question for him:
“How are you still alive?”
His answer: “Hell, I don’t know. It just wasn’t my time.”
He said they basically all told him the same thing: “We don’t know how anyone should have survived that.
“It’s a miracle!”
While a heavenly hand may well have reached down for Grote21 months ago, it’s certain he survived because earthly arms extended outward for him. That’s how someone donates blood. They stick their arm out for the phlebotomist.
