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After a months-long battle with COVID-19, Cordell native finally back in familiar surroundings

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  • TOP: Scott Hines, center top, sits surrounded by his family. BELOW: Scott Hines receives a surprise visit from the Fort Cobb baseball team on their way to the state tournament. CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
    TOP: Scott Hines, center top, sits surrounded by his family. BELOW: Scott Hines receives a surprise visit from the Fort Cobb baseball team on their way to the state tournament. CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
  • HOME AGAIN
    HOME AGAIN
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Scott Hines, the Cordell native who had battled the Coronavirus since July, is at home in Ft. Cobb.

The afternoon before leaving Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Center in south Oklahoma City, Scott said, “The first thing I want is some home cooking and to sleep in my own bed.”

He arrived home on Oct. 15.

Scott said, “Friends have been texting us that they want to cook us meals.”

Scott’s wife Becky said, “he’s been hospitalized for 13 weeks including the rehabilitation center.”

Scott said, “I’m feeling OK. Just trying to get better, get my strength and endurance. It’s never as fast as you want it to be, but I’ve feel like I’ve been to hell and back,” he added.

But he quickly expressed his gratefulness, too. “I’m lucky to be here as Becky reminds me. You can’t imagine the support from all over.

“It’s been crazy with all the prayers, the well wishers, the financial support. It’s been unimaginable.”

Scott pointed out, “Becky has been awesome, she’s been great. It’s been short nights and long days for her,” he stressed.

Becky noted that since he was transferred to the rehabilitation center Sept. 29, she’s been able to stay there and not go back and forth to Ft. Cobb.

“Friends have been taking care of our house,” they said. “Brad Davis and his wife Angie built me a rail at the home,” he stated, trying to choke back the tears.

“I cry all the time. I’ve lost 60 pounds and now I’m a cry baby,” Scott continued.

Becky explained, “He’s pretty much off of oxygen. He can walk without oxygen but they are sending him home with oxygen in case he needs it.”

She said, “He will continue to do Physical Therapy, for now three times a week. We don’t know if he will go to Carnegie or Chickasha and don’t know how long he will have to continue it.”

Scott said his appetite is better, and his taste of food is improving. Still, he noted, “When Becky asks me what sounds good to eat, I tell her I don’t know.

“Fruit really tastes good me to now,” he said.

He commented he was on a feeding tube for two months and now he has cold sensitive teeth.

Even though he was about leave the rehab center, Scott was already eyeing when he might get back to his job of coaching the Ft. Cobb boys basketball team.

“I’m going to try and get back this year to coaching. I have a special group of seniors and would like to get back. But I have a great assistant, Dave Bellamy.

“I coached him from the seventh grade on, and he knows all what we do. My son Cameron will help him some as he has time.”

Bellamy is also the head baseball coach at Ft. Cobb in addition to being Scott’s assistant.

“I have to be careful, I know that, about not catching something else,” the veteran coach emphasized.

Scott’s Ft. Cobb teams have captured seven state championship and also won two state runner up titles since he took over the program in 1997-98.

Another thing he hopes to do this fall is go out and sit in the woods during the deer season a time or two if possible. “I’m quite an outdoorsman, too,” he finished.