Sick Leave: My Humbling Week at the Hospital

Published June 24, 2015 11:25am ET



It’s been said that the terminally ill can hear music just before slipping away. I’ve always imagined these souls listening to angels strumming their harps. I never thought it might be “Hey Jealousy” by the Gin Blossoms. But that’s what I heard as I lay in my hospital bed last month while battling a serious strep infection.

Not that some of the lyrics weren’t fitting:

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