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The episodes come so often and so random, are so mind-numbing in their frequency, there’s never really an opportunity to reflect on the sheer terror of it all.
Multiple times every day, Jack O’Brien stops breathing.
“I’m always waiting,” Colleen O’Brien says. “Please take that breath. Take that breath.”
A breath of life, a breath of perspective.
“People ask me about pressure in this job,” says Bill O’Brien, Penn State’s new coach. “Really? Pressure?”
Here is Bill O’Brien’s view of pressure: His son, Jack, is 10 years old and has the rare neurological disorder Lissencephaly. He can’t walk or talk, can’t feed himself, can’t do things...
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