Good to hear Sean McDonough is on the mend. Chad Finn of the Boston Globe talked to the ESPN announcer as he recovers from brain surgery earlier this month.

“I’m getting there, a work in progress, but getting out pretty regularly,’’ said McDonough, who was in the operating room at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary for more than four hours as Dr. Daniel Lee repaired a hole in the bone near McDonough’s left ear that separates it from the brain. “I still have fluid in the left ear, and my hearing is low in that ear. I have sensitivity to loud noise and some dizziness. But they’re pretty common effects during recovery. They just take a while to resolve themselves.’’

McDonough put off the surgery for nine months so he could continue to work.

“It was a long time to live with it, but the surgery is major, and it’s very invasive,’’ said McDonough, who was originally scheduled to have the surgery Aug. 7 but put it off until a time when his schedule was lighter and the weather wasn’t as good. “They have to cut a hole in your skull and move your brain and have to lift your brain off the bone that they’re fixing. It’s daunting, it’s scary, and I really had to weigh, which I did for a long time, the pluses and minuses of the surgery.

“The symptoms were awful, to the point of almost being debilitating. But you can live with them, and you have to make that decision. I realized they can get worse over time, you risk the onset of vertigo, and a lot of people try to live with it, go back to the surgeon one, two, three, or five years later, and say I can’t live with it anymore. And you’re left asking why didn’t I just do this four or five years ago? I just figured I don’t want to live with this. Plus, I’m hoping the titanium in my head gives me 10 more yards off the tee.”