The Eli Series
(The Eli Series 3/6: Eric/Dad)
"My journey with Down SYNdrome (it’s amazing how many ways you can pronounce it. Pro tip: switch it up every few months just for fun) begins with me in a surgery suite and a man in his late 50s plunging a needle into my scrotum. His office wall had a medical degree but to be honest I never called the school to confirm, yet there I was. He spent the next hour sewing my vas deferens back together. Post vasectomy reversal surgery, I swear my nether region could feel a gnat flap its wings. Good news, it worked. Michelle and I would be having our fourth child; and a boy, after having three girls.