So, where were you at the Hawks celebration?
I gotta tell ya, for some 50 years it’s been a ‘good news/bad news’
relationship between myself and hockey.
I completely blew out my right knee the night the US Olympic hockey team played the “Do you believe in miracles?” game. Such a great moment, tempered by some really lousy news for an active young guy.
During the All-Star game I was in the hospital recovering from knee surgery number three. Sure, that one would do the trick!
Today, (with my friends providing the updates from Hawks mania downtown) I was in Joliet, being told I’d have two surgical procedures done to the ankle on my ‘bad knee’ side, the recovery for which will take me through the entire summer, followed in the fall by a complicated total knee replacement. The rehab for the knee is expected to take more than six months because of the extensive damage. We’re talking about nearly a year blown away, and not just any year-just like today wasn’t just any day.
After a life of the Hawks drama, a life all of us “50+year olds” have in common and can relate to, I don’t get to enjoy the full experience of basking in the glow of victory.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d rather be in physical misery while the Hawks are Stanley Cup Champs than be in physical misery AND have another year of waiting and hoping.
It just goes to show ya-
-its always something!
But I did tell you they'd win the Cup this year!
GO HAWKS!!!
