The year my dad spent a few weeks at the Henry Ford Hoosegow, the Olympics were on. It was 2006 if I remember correctly. I would drive over to the hoosegow and back every day and crash out in front of the Olympics every night. After dinner (which was often Dexter’s Pub) and my blahg and an email to family and friends.

At that time, I collected a lot of family and some friends who wanted to hear updates about my dad. Sometimes people would ask how I could write these daily emails. Well, first, writing helps me think things through and process them and writing those emails helped me as much as anything else. I was AMAZED at how many people wanted to hear about our journey through my dad’s injury, surgeries, and eventual death. It helped me that people seemed to care about this. When I was writing those emails, we were optimistic that my dad might survive but a few weeks after we moved him back to the yooperland to a rehab facility, he succumbed to sepsis and made his exit. Actually I wasn’t all that optimistic throughout any of this journey but I was holding the world on my shoulders and all I could do was think positively and carry on.

Tonight the Olympics are on again and I was a bit ambivalent about watching. We’ve been watching Andy Griffith and when we heard his whistling, I kinda wanted to watch that. But we turned to the Olympics anyway and whaddya know, it was giant slalom! I downhill skied a LOT as a kid and I love to watch skiing on TV. I was never really any good but I could manage my way down ANY hill, no matter how many moguls, if not elegantly. So we watched giant slalom and then some pairs skating (and learned the word “twizzle”) and now we’re watching what I think is slalom (gates are closer together than giant slalom).

I am not falling asleep in front of the TV tonight but I will probably not last all that long.

G’night, KW

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