Poof

My son Steven, a doctor, called me this past Saturday.

“You better check on Grandpa. He’s had a pain in his stomach for three or four days and I think he should go to an emergency room. He needs to have tests that can’t be done at an Urgent Care. Take him to a good hospital.”

An hour later I was on an airplane back to Los Angeles. My dad is 102 years old. The caretaker who usually stays with him had been on vacation for almost two weeks and she wouldn’t be back until the Tuesday after Labor D...