Showing posts with label College Collage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label College Collage. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

The Worst Day of My Life (Now with Context!)


     Below is an e-mail I sent to some friends on Thursday, October 5, 2000.  I had been attending Eastern Michigan University for a little over a month.  The subject line was "My Worst Day."
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      Yesterday, I woke up. That was my first mistake. In a comedy of errors, I was lucky enough to experience the worst day of my life up to this point, and I can't imagine any day being much worse. Although, that's what I kept saying yesterday, figuring the day could only get better after each setback.

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

By the Book

     During the question and answer session after my speech at the CF Family Retreat, (link to the video of it coming soon, I hope!) one of the audience members suggested I write a book.  I told him that I had been told this before, by my parents, my wife, a few friends, and I always felt like my story was "just another story" and very few people would be interested in reading about the life of a random guy they'd never met.  I felt like those who suggested I put my life down on paper said it because they knew me personally, and my story had significance for them that it would not have for those who didn't.  But my viewpoint on that changed one week ago today.  Following the Q & A, several more people told me that writing the book was something I had to do, and one of the CF clinic doctors mentioned that she gives books to newly diagnosed patients, but that none of them are written by people who have Cystic Fibrosis.  As it turns out, I am the horse's mouth.