One thing about staying overnight at a hospital is that it is extremely hard to get good quality sleep. You are in pain and feel discomfort; yes, the drugs help but you are not in a comfortable bed. As days go by, you lose track of time and your biological clock goes nuts. If you…
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This is how it went down for my loved ones: My compadre Andy gets a call from an unknown number and it turns out it’s a social worker from the hospital where I was taken (Jackson Memorial Ryder Trauma Center). At the time, I was pursuing my MBA at the University of Miami (UM). The…
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“We fight till the end, we never give up, we try to gain inches in every play” – said by me under heavy medication, probably came straight out of my subconscious. I guess I must have been trying to channel a combination of Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday and Sylvester Stalone in Rocky Balboa. That…
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The reason I got into triathlons is not what you might expect. I was having dinner with my good friend Christopher, ordered a nice bottle of wine and got into a big discussion as to what is a harder event to complete; an Olympic distance triathlon or a full marathon. I had recently done a…
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