4:55 p.m. The time will forever be etched in my memory. My beloved Seahawks were losing to the Rams on their home turf. Frost lay on the grass back home. I was on the phone, texting my friend Jordan who was at CenturyLink Field. Jordan’s a doctor too but he’s just a GP, not a pathologist like I am. He decided to keep it cosy and move back to Seattle. It was after Coach Carroll made the decision to pull Eddie Lacy out. They didn’t put anybody else in and then the game just sort of stopped.

I was at Walter Reed and it wasn’t even my shift. I was just nursing that coffee that smells like burned wicker. They have it in the cafeteria. I was watching the players move around, not knowing which way to walk, on the small TV in the corner. We’d been texting but Jordan called me....

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