Enter the Deuce 15
With a full year of life under Matthew’s belt, I take stock of how far he has come as well as some lingering after effects of his time in the NICU.
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Enter the Deuce 14
In this episode we take the Deuce home and begin actually living with our son. Not lost on us is the fact that he was released on Easter Sunday. Certainly we…
Enter the Deuce 10
Conceding that your child’s options have dwindled to only one course of action is a difficult concept to digest. As a younger man I might not have accepted the…
Enter the Deuce 8
Science rests on a foundation of data. You can’t do anything as an engineer, chemist or doctor without having data. Sometimes you have data, but that data is…
Enter the Deuce 7
I was a bike racer for many years; it’s a sport that demands strength, aerobic fitness, the calm of a Zen master and lightning-fast reflexes. Racing is…
Enter the Deuce 5
Visiting the Deuce in the hospital was a kind of purgatory. I was able to be near my son, but I couldn’t hold him and touching him through the isolette was a…
Enter the Deuce 3
In this episode the doctors tell us just what they think is wrong with Matthew. They also give us some sense of how things might go and because they want us…
Enter the Deuce 2
If you're a parent, you have some idea of how the birth of a child is supposed to go. After the most intense experience of the mother's life (and sometimes…
Enter the Deuce 1
Back in 2013 when my youngest son was born he almost died less than three minutes after his birth. He had a condition that would have been terminal when I was…