Thanks to everyone who left a comment or emailed me about Dad’s being in the hospital. He’s doing much better now and he expects to be sent home from the hospital on Friday.
I was surprised at the number of folks who wrote in defense of People and US
magazines. I suppose that everyone’s got his or her own favourite brain candy. I’m no different: I
myself prefer comic books and have recently been enjoying the set of
old-school Dungeons and Dragons manuals that David “This Boy is Toast” Petite gave to me for my birthday.
When I visited Dad yesterday, he said to me: “I don’t really want
magazines. What I really want is some light entertainment on TV. I want
I sighed, pulled a twenty from my wallet and put in an order for an
in-room TV. Dad’s always been there for me, and if he’s bored stiff in
a hospital room and hankering for daytime TV, I’m going to make sure he
gets some.
I hope he at least tunes in to Law and Order at least once in a while.
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Joey -- Glad to hear that dad is doing better. Give him Marlene and my regards and best wishes.
Andy was a Dungeons and Dragons addict for awhile in his "youth".
What do you mean you don't look Jewish?
Barry
Thanks, Barry!
(For those of you who don't know him: Barry is Wendy's dad -- my future father-in-law.)
Joey, all of us here at the Thursday night blog group at the Berkman Center have you and your family in our thoughts. j
TVs aren't standard equipment in hospital rooms? They have been whenever I visited someone in the States...another interesting cultural difference.
Hi Joey,
We're all keeping your dad in our thoughts here at Berkman this morning.
Erica