Boxing referee Mills Lane is surprising his doctor with his recovery from a stroke a week ago, his sons said.
He still can't talk, but he's able to sip a little red wine, enjoy chocolate ice cream, laugh at "The Godfather" and wish his nurses would quit pestering him.
"He gets really annoyed at the nurses, but his spirits are really good," son Terry Lane said Sunday in the first public appearance by his family since Lane was stricken.
The 64-year-old Lane collapsed at his home last weekend. He was rushed to Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nev.
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"The stroke was a moderate stroke and the doctor said he had never seen anybody come this far this fast," son Tommy Lane said.