Not as planned, but ...

I didn't get to watch the Super Bowl with Nathaniel, but I still feel like we bonded over it. As soon as the game ended (Amanda was with him for a while, and we couldn't visit for a while due to the nurses' shift change), I went over to visit him and I gave him a rundown of the game.

I gave him the scoring recap from start to finish. And I told him he needs to do like the Steelers did -- come back from a weak beginning and finish strong.

It looks like he'll go in for surgery tomorrow morning. For a few days after that, he'll pretty much be sedated and on a ventilator or respirator or whatever -- they'll have him on all that to reduce the stress to his insides and the new connections for two of the major arteries in his body.

We're rooting for him. I'll have to trade my Terrible Towel for a Nathaniel Napkin.