I went back to Dr. Osei in February. Everything is clear. I’ll have a checkup every year now. I’ve already marked it on the calendar. I don’t skip things anymore.
Evelyn Carter and I talk on the phone every few weeks. She came to Sunday dinner in December. She ate two helpings of my pot roast and told my grandchildren stories about their grandfather that nobody in this family had ever heard. How he fell asleep in a grant meeting once and woke up and gave the best speech in the room. How he brought her lab technicians boxes of doughnuts every visit, and always the same kind. Honey-dipped.Plan Family Trips
“He said it was his wife’s favorite,” Evelyn said. “He said if he couldn’t bring her, he’d bring her doughnuts.”
My grandchildren laughed. I had to leave the table for a minute.
