Author: Gary Bargeron

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.

If you know me well, you’re probably aware of how much I hate to wait. Whether it is waiting in a TSA line in the airport, or for a file to load to my laptop, or in the check out lane at my local grocer, waiting is a frustrating game.

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