When the Seas Roar
Friday morning, March 15th 2019, I was laying in bed, determined not to get out of my warm cocoon until the last possible moment, when my son burst in the room, "An FMC nurse wants to talk to you." It took a few seconds to register, but then the alarm went off in my head. The voice on the other end of my phone sounded worried, "We have Jay in emergency. It appears he is having a stroke. We have given him clot busting medication and are having him life flighted to OSU. If you leave now, you may be able to see him before they take off." I don't remember getting dressed but I ended up in the ER just moments before they whisked him off to the helicopter waiting for him on the roof of the hospital. Thankfully, my son was home from college on Spring Break and could drive me the 45 minutes to the hospital. I was greeted at OSU by a neuro surgeon. "Jay has a clot in his brain. He will have the best outcome if we go in and remove ...