'Personal' Category
10 Years Gone
10 years ago this very morning, I was working in the news business. I was working the nightside reporting shift for the ABC affiliate here in Birmingham. I was fishing around for a story, to replace the one that I knew someone was going to do.
A couple of days before, a local middle [...]Magnitude of Miracles
Your Miracle May Vary. The inexplicable always seems grander and taller when you’re standing so close to the base. But the seeming recovery of my almost-but-not-quite-late cousin has now been quantified by his doctor:
In 27 years of medical work I’ve never seen someone turn around in a 24 hour period like Bill just [...]Awake and Aware
I haven’t been sharing the ups and downs of my cousin Billy, not because there haven’t been, but because they haven’t been earthshaking in either direction. However, the overall trend seemed to be headed downhill.
Until this morning.
This is from my cousin Dave:
While sitting in Bill’s room blabbering and telling jokes I noticed Bill looking [...]A New Beginning
I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to communicate this, and there’s no easy way to do it.
My job at the American Red Cross has been eliminated.
I’m one of more than 1,000 people being let go as part of a major layoff at the Red Cross. (Reduction in Force, Restructuring? It’s [...]Back from the Brink
It’s only fair to update my cousin’s situation from here, since I had brought it up.
Bill (my cousin, not my uncle) is still on a ventilator, and still heavily sedated. They are waiting for him to stabilize and be off the ventilator before they can do the surgery to remove the blockages. The CT scan [...]
