The days moved at a snail’s pace while we waited for Lou’s body to heal.  He had one or two check ups during our first week on campus, but it was pretty clear that the doctors were in no rush for Lou to get on a plane to go back to Dallas. He was still […]

After two and a half weeks of waiting, Lou finally had an appointment with the doctor who did his surgery.  The first step was to see if Lou could pass urine on his own. So a urology nurse removed Lou’s catheter, and he had to wait to see if he could go. I was sitting in […]

This morning, I went for the same walk that I’ve been going on every day for the past couple of weeks.  It’s a six-mile walk down a nice biking trail that has lovely benches and play parks peppered along the way. Pretty much every day, I’ve seen the same young man sitting on the same […]