Fernando, Freddie, Rolando and Me part 6

The Dodgers would go two and four against their nearest rivals, the San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks but would start the month with a sweep of Atlanta and end the month with a sweep of the Mets. They would run a record of 16-10 for the month of May and a hold of first […]

Fernando, Freddie, Rolando and Me part 4

And so, the 2024 Dodger season began. Following two games in Korea against the hated San Diego Padres, the Dodgers returned to the mainland for another week of Spring Training. With apologies, I’ll hop on my soapbox for a moment and complain about the inanity of playing two regular season games in the Far East, […]

Fernando, Freddie, Rolando and Me part 3

A moderately chilly January turned into one of the rainiest February’s in Los Angeles history and the process for Rolando’s recovery became the focus of our lives. It was slow and tedious and wasn’t progressing great. He wasn’t regressing, we just didn’t see any real improvement. His mind wandered, his strength ebbed and flowed, his […]

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 […]