I read this stuff and find myself knowing far more about all this than I did before this weekend...thanks for sharing and for your honesty.

Appreciated.

I wish you and him all the best.

I can concur with your ex. Mr. Penguin is very different now, but likes to say he is the same. His perspective is entirely different on his side of things. It is a struggle for all of us as we navigate these ever changing waters.

I can relate somewhat. I was in a car wreck five-some years ago, suffered a TBI and required brain surgery to relieve a hematoma. Things were kinda touch-and-go for a few days until I came out of the induced coma, and my ex—who knew me long before the accident, though we weren’t dating yet then—said I was different on…

Mr. Penguin suffered a rupture in May, 2014. He is alive today, but has life long disabilities now. The next few weeks for Danny’s family are going to be horrific, the following MONTHS of rehab heartbreaking, exhausting and fucking horrible, then the next thing you know you are nearly 4 years out and it is just a…

Think about the extraneous shit too! Tonsils? Appendices? It’s incredible we exist, and yet we’re clearly a work in progress.

My wife died at age 36 from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm back in 2006. It happened just as suddenly as Danny Farquhar’s rupture. I feel like there should be more awareness and research about cerebral aneurysms. It is estimated that 1M+ people in the USA are walking around with an aneurysm in their brain and don’t even…

Take your star man.

I give this comment 21 out of 12.

Damn. After the initial shock of hearing about stuff like this, I always end up thinking about the INSANE number of things that need to work precisely right just to keep my body breathing air. The system is just so impossibly complex, it’s really incredible we can exist in the first place.

A high profile story like this will certainly go a long way towards putting their neurology center in the Limelight.

Rush University does brain surgery now? I thought the Lessons at that Fly By Night school focused on applying the Caress Of Steel less to the Hemispheres than to Vital Signs from Closer To The Heart.

And also happened less than a month after he yelled at Alex Rodriguez for running across the mound after hitting into a double play, and Rodriguez implied that he had no right to say anything because he only had a handful of wins in his career.

Fine, whatever...then why was Dallas Braden wearing that guy’s dad’s hat?

Which was also a perfect game - on Mothers Day.

Heh. I probably should’ve mentioned this in the blog: the interviewer is Dallas Braden, who pitched the last no-hitter for the Athletics, back in 2010.

Why was he being interviewed by a homeless man with wearing my father’s hat?

had some help on the no-hit part from the umps and the scorekeeper

Unfortunately the other team wore the scarlet letters.