It has always been my general understanding that hospitals are where people go to feel better. That was not exactly how it was, at least in my case. I strode into the Danville Regional Medical Center last Tuesday morning at 9:30 am, feeling fit and vigorous. Twenty-eight hours later I was rolled out in a [...]

Well, I’m back again, if only for a while. External circumstances that included a rather remarkable display of maternal affection caused me, at the last moment, to postpone my surgery. I will now have my throat cut on May 16 unless I do not, although surgical quack, not exactly thrilled with my decision to postpone, [...]