Me, too, Bruce; me, too

In introducing The River at concert in 1985, Bruce Springsteen told a story about how he and  some other guys got the order to take a physical for the draft. He said, "We were all so scared."

I have been thinking about that story a lot recently, not because I face a draft physical, just because I too also scared.

My heart started beating uncontrollably again Wednesday night. My sister came and sat with me as I took another pill. It worked, and the doctors don't seem at all worried about these incidents. It is common until the medicine builds up enough, they say.

Their nonchalance helps, but this is my heart, my body that is again failing.