Running with Grief

For the first time since I started this blog, I have skipped a post. There is a very good reason for this.

My last post was a recap of the Ragnar Trail Event in West Virginia. I had written about the challenges of that race. What I didn’t tell you was that the night I arrived (during the storm), I received several voice messages and texts from my family regarding my father, and I was worried about his health the whole time.

My father had two heart attacks and a quadruple bypass six years ago. He was in the Cleveland Clinic for months, and if it had not been for the wonderful staff there, he would have died. Last year my father’s health started failing again, and I rushed to Florida just in time to get him psyched up to get an LVAD, which is a machine that regulates blood flow for the heart. Again, he almost died because his organs had already started shutting down, but the surgical staff at the Cleveland Clinic in Weston performed a miracle and brought him back.

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