Eric Carmen was correct

I don’t even know the words of Eric Carmen’s All By Myself, but I know the most important part of the song… The hook.

Those words ran through my head as I found myself without my family on Sunday night, as Susan, PJ, and Lincoln headed to Sidney with her parents. Poor PJ had to get his tonsils and adenoids removed because of the size of his tonsils.

It was because of his tonsils that PJ would hold on to colds longer. This year it got so bad that despite the doc-prescribed cold medicine and home remedies, he coughs so much that he threw up a few times and he even burst a blood vessel i...