Timepieces
When I WAS onl Y SeVen, my fa- ther was diagnosed with lung can- cer. When he went to what is now memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the world’s finest cancer
hospital, the prognosis was grim. they
could remove his cancerous lung, but they
would first need to install a pacemaker
on him just so he’d survive the operation.
And even if he made it through the lung
removal, he would be so weak, he would
spend the rest of his life in a chair. And, he
needed to realize that despite all this, he
would never live to see his kids graduate
from college.
he learned all of this the day before
thanksgiving. he told my brothers and
I after thanksgiving dinner what was
happening, that he would be gone over
Christmas, and that the doctors did not
think he would come back. he told us
how much he loved us, and how hard he
was going to fight this thing. I remember
how calm my father seemed as he held us.
he knew he would make it. And he did.
my dad missed Christmas that year
and came home missing half of his left
lung and with a scar so large and sensitive
that for years afterward, he could accu-
rately predict the weather based on how
sore it was that day. During physical re-
habilitation, he built up his chest muscles
so much it pushed the pacemaker out of
his body, and he needed surgery to re-
implant it. So much for life in a chair.
Years later, when I graduated from
college, my dad gave me a magnificent
wristwatch to congratulate me, but also
to thank me for helping him defy the best
doctors in the world. he likewise gifted
my two brothers when they graduated,
too. Although I’ve always been a little ner-
vous wearing a timepiece this expensive,
I have worn it every day without fail, and
will do so until the day it passes to my son
Connor.
Sometimes a
wristwatch measures
more than hours and
seconds.”
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