Late last night, as I pulled out of the hospital parking garage and handed the attendant my ticket, along with the orange slip of paper that meant that my son had been admitted and I didn’t have to pay, I thought for a fleeting moment about how sad and tired I must have looked. I […]
Category Archives: Hospital
I Dropped a VCR on My Head and Kicked a Nurse
You kids today, with your Netflixin’ and your iPhonin’ and your Amazonin’, have no idea how hard it used to be to watch a movie! When I was a child, your choices of movies were whatever was playing in the theater, and whatever was on TV. Once a year we got to watch Mary Poppins and […]
Life. It’s the Worst.
Yes, yes, I know. Do not be discouraged. Life is also the best sometimes too. And I agree. But right now, it is the worst. I am the worst. Everything is the worst. Yesterday afternoon, as I was yelling at my son to put his boots on, he had a seizure. We were running late […]
A Whole New Kind of Seizure
I was in the middle of a board meeting last night when I got the call. My wife had already texted me a few times during the meeting, so to get an actual phone call was already a cause for concern, and I backed my chair away from the table a few inches and answered […]
My First Ambulance Ride
If you know me, or read any of my posts, you may know that I generally try to use humor to deal with stuff. Part defense mechanism, and part grease on the wheels of life, I try very hard to see the humor or the absurd in any given situation. If I can laugh at, […]
Emergency Rooms, Bacon, and Chocolate Pudding
This is not what I wanted to write about today. I wanted to tell you about my trip to New York for auditions, the Halloween party that I went to, impending storm stuff, or pretty much anything else but my daughter’s health issues. Sadly, that is all I have been dealing with for the past […]
Wednesday Night in the E.R.
Last night we went to a party at a farm. It was promising to be a really fun night, with tons of delicious looking food to eat (lobster!) and good friends to talk to. My five year old daughter Ruby was off playing with one of her friends and my wife and I enjoyed some […]