A life well worth living

Speaking Up About a Silent Killer, Washington Post

"Three times a week, in a plain red-brick building near the Pentagon City mall in Arlington, a machine keeps me alive. ... Between the time spent on dialysis and other hours devoted to related testing, I reckon I've lost about a third of my life. My focus, though, is on the 65 percent that's left."

Editor's note: The author of this article, Frank Sietzen, co-authored the book "New Moon Rising" with me back in 2004 and is the author of the forthcoming book "The Astronaut and the Fireman".