First step

As I was sitting in traffic the other day thinking about the fact that I haven't run since June 20th, it occurred to me that I needed someplace to collect my thoughts about my road to recovery.

Today I returned to Dr. Nicola's office at UIC.

I have become such a regular there that I feel like I could get there with my eyes closed. I always leave my office a half hour early. As usual, I forgot not to take Halsted. It was backed up from Chicago to Randolph. Ten cars back, I watched the light go from red to green to yellow to green at least five or eight times.

From Halsted through Greek town, it's the turn right on Roosevelt into the parking lot and the special spots for "Patients of the Sports Medecine Clinic" or something like that. Into the waiting room, hello to Mel, and down to a room to wait.

This time I brought the front page of the Sunday NY Times. I just couldn't read an old magazine again. I read most of the front page article about Judy Miller. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/national/16leak.html

That's quite a story, but set aside an hour to read it.

Tomorrow I will explain what happened with the doctor and where we go next.