Month: September 2022

October 21, 2022 While Hurricane Ian was exiting Florida’s east coast, I was being admitted to Charlotte’s Atrium Hospital neurosurgery suite for a procedure on the blood vessels in the lining of my brain. The following day, what was by then Tropical Storm Ian was moving over the central Carolinas

If you’re reading this the day it’s written (Sept. 28, 2022), I’ll be in the neurosurgery suite or in a recovery room at Atrium’s main hospital campus in Charlotte. Because… Today’s the day!  This is what we’ve been waiting for since we first learned of my cerebral hemorrhage in May.

There are those occasions that as you’re describing your health, it feels like you’re talking about someone else. It is more of a clinical conversation and not so much your own personal reality. That seems to be the majority of the time for me recently. My wife, Beth, and I