My Old Man

A profile in courage.

Photo by Sabine van Straaten on Unsplash

Life dealt my father a pretty lousy hand at birth. As an infant he had asthma so severe that he almost didn’t make it. His parents had to drive him to a hospital in another state to bring the illness under control. When he was not quite 3 years old, his mother committed suicide. That left him with his father, an i…