The dichotomy of control, ER edition

[image: the author, in the ER of the Tisch Hospital run by NYU (left); view from said hospital (right)]

Pardon me the personal update, but the darn covid pandemic hasn’t been kind to my health, mental and otherwise. I have developed hypertension. One of my vertebral discs went out of alignment. I have put on weight, in part as a result of stress. And I’ve just spent three days in the Emergency Room of New York University’s Tisch Hospital, on Manhattan’s midtown east (highly recommended, by the way, if you are in the market for…