Remembering Dan Gilliland Last Saturday night, at Saint Joe’s Hospital, I sat with my friend, Dan Gilliland, watching the Michigan Washington football game. Dan was going to be heading into surgery the next morning. A week earlier, he had been admitted to the hospital for treatment of diverticulitis. Usually this is a painful condition which is easily treated, but for Dan, the condition worsened over several days, until he was facing surgery to repair an abscess in his colon. Dan …
