When I was living in Pensacola, Fla., in either 1987 or 1988, I was tooling downtown from my home in the northern part of town. I made a left turn off the exit ramp off the only real interstate in town (and because it was a north-south highway, it was about to end anyway), just cruising… Read More Waking up
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
Mary Jo got this in her email the other day. She forwarded it to me with two words. “Slow down.” I’ll add one more. “Damn.”
[deep breath] [nervous laughter] [mind wandering wildly] OK. So this thing, as the kids say these days, just got real. We had an appointment today, Mary Jo and I, with a heart surgeon. (If you need background, it’s here.) And after an hour stoning him with questions about valve replacement and surgeries and second opinions and timing and drugs… Read More Hitting home
Well, this won’t be the last post about college and Luke, but there’s this: He’s in. We picked Luke up from a robotics competition at Georgia Tech about 11:30 yesterday, drove over to an outstanding pizza joint (Antico) off the north edge of campus, saw it had a line out the door and instead sidetracked to… Read More In
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