by Ed Quillen
Martha tells me that people have come up to her at work and whispered something like “I saw Ed at the hospital. Is he okay?”
I don’t know why they don’t just ask me that, because when I lost some weight a few years ago, I got many inquiries along the lines of “Are you all right?” In general, I was, and I told them so, but perhaps my protestations back then made people reluctant to ask me directly now.