Checking yourself into the ER when you’re not coding sort of feels a little like what I imagine turning yourself into the police station after you commit a minor crime must feel like.  There’s no drama. But you know there will be after you report your misdeed. I was kind of over drama at this […]

Lou made it through that night in the hospital, and he was scheduled to see a urology specialist two days later.  I’m sure they would’ve seen Lou sooner, but they were going to have to do another exam to measure the size of Lou’s prostate, and it was important to give Lou a chance to […]

Sam went dark on me the week after Thanksgiving.  The truth is so much was going on with Lou’s health that week that maybe I went dark on him — who knows. But I remember feeling anxious about the fact that very soon, I’d have no reason to see Sam anymore, and so stalling out […]