We got things to catch up on here, and not a lot of time to do it. So here are a few quickies just to make me feel a little less guilty for leaving the blog so blank for so long. Sorry, blog. I’ll go longer on some of these later … Politics Clinton and… Read More Quickies
About 24 hours from this posting, three of the six Donovan boys from Willow Grove, Del., will stand on a tee box at Litchfield Country Club in Pawleys Island, S.C., and inflict on the world some of the worst golf ever played. It will, without a doubt, be glorious in its ineptitude. Drives will be sliced… Read More Three for fore
The days are running by now, ridiculously running, like Phoebe in Central Park. They are out of control. Unstoppable. The graduation announcements are out. The party planned. The prom is over. Finals start this week. His last high school concert, ever, was Sunday night. Ev-er. There’s this [see photo], which has been hanging in Luke’s closet… Read More Running like mad
Yesterday marked three months. Thirteen weeks, if you’re counting that way. But three months, from Jan. 21 to April 21. I am healed. From cracked open and splayed all about to wired shut and ready to go. In 13 weeks. Amazing, isn’t it? When you’re down, physically, sometimes it’s impossible to imagine being up again.… Read More Thirteen weeks (three months)
Hi, all. To catch you up, I posted on a Caring Bridge page about my last few days: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/johndonovan2 It’s been a painful, humbling, terrifying, life-affirming few days. Those who I know, those who I don’t, thanks for going through them with me. I’ll have more posts here, as I feel better, in the days ahead.
Went for pre-op testing today. The kind nurses at Emory St. Joseph’s sucked some blood, ripped off a quick EKG (seriously, like, two minutes), asked me about my medications, took some money (more painful than the blood), then checked my armband somewhere between 900-1,000 times. The people there were ridiculously nice and professional. For the first… Read More Countdown
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