A few years ago, getting my home office together, I dove into a closet filled with 20-some years of sportswriting junk — notebooks, bobbleheads, press passes, various pieces of useless or mostly useless swag, DVDs, media guides, baseballs, hats … junk, I’m telling you — and finally picked out a few things to hang my wall. It’s kind… Read More Scenes from my bulletin board
So, for some reason over the past couple of months, I’ve been thinking a lot about health care. OK. I’ve covered those reasons pretty extensively, I guess. In fact, I thought I was through thinking about that stuff. But then, there’s this, on the right. Click on it to get the full effect. (This isn’t complete,… Read More Who’s picking up the check?
Apologies. Apologies already. I haven’t been keeping up with the blog for a couple weeks, for a couple reasons: 1.) I’ve been focusing on getting better as quickly as I can, and getting back to work. 2.) Nobody wants to hear any more about doctors or pills or pain or gawdawful hospital experiences. And I’m… Read More What’s happening
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
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