Friday, November 10, 2006

Guess What the Other One Did Instead

Okay, this has certainly been quite the week. Most of the time I've been sitting in a conference in Detroit, listening to people talk about all kinds of relatively gross stuff. I got to see some sino-sagittal nerve complexes get ripped in half! Of course, I was a co-author on one of the papers, so that was kinda cool. And one of the other papers cited a paper that I helped write a couple years ago. But on the whole, we spent almost a week in Detroit. Yikes. Being in Detroit for a week is kind of like someone swinging a baseball bat at your head only at the the last second you duck and it misses you.

Then on Wednesday (confirmed on Thursday) the wife had a miscarriage. That's like someone swinging a baseball bat at your head only at the last second you duck and it misses you, only then you notice that they actually had two bats and the second one is now about 35 mm from hitting you in the chest. Oof.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Schuyler-- I'm sorry. I hope you can hurry home to your wife very soon.

[REDACTED] said...

Actually, she was with me in Detroit at a friend's house. We're BOTH home now.

Mike Stavlund said...

I'll keep my mildly profane rant to myself, and just say that I'm very sorry.

Sonja Andrews said...

I'm glad we'll all be together this weekend. And, I'm so very sorry. That just stinks ... I have some other words, but I'll keep them inside my head. They're not fit for publication.

kate said...

We love you guys. And now I'm feeling a double sense of loss.

Anonymous said...

I, too, am sorry. I'll be praying for you guys...

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