Fernando, Freddie, Rolando and Me part 2

A scary February dissolved into a potentially terrifying but hopeful March. We brought Rolando home from the rehab facility the last week of February and after a week at home, dad seemed to be recovering into himself. He still moved slow and required a lot of help, but the mind was operating at a higher […]

Fernando, Freddie, Rolando and Me: part 1

Since Rolando’s first fall in February of 2022 (a few days before the Rams-Bengals Super Bowl in Los Angeles) it felt like a yearly February pilgrimage to the hospital. It seemed like he was always stricken with some severe medical issue every February. February ’22 it was a Cardiac episode, February ’23 it was a […]

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

The gravity of time pulls on all of us. Many of us spend our lives in the pursuit against that gravity but the scientific truth is that the gravity always wins in the end. Father Time is undefeated. As a person who loves and takes care of his Dad, I see the everyday in’s and […]