Back on February 17, 2006 on this blog, I posted this little story…
This morning, I was back in an embarrassing gown at Cedars-Sinai, having a procedure which is known as an Upper G.I. Endoscopy. Basically, they knock you out and stick a little camera down your throat to check and see if all is well in your stomach. This is not as unpleasant as it sounds, it's over in a jif, and all reports from within the Evanier tummy were good news.
So it's before they wheel me in to have it done. I'm lying on a rolling hospital bed/gurney with an I.V. in one arm and a machine that constantly takes my blood pressure strapped to the other. The nurse draws the curtain back and the man on the next gurney over can see me and I can see him. He is a rather well-known TV personality-actor, and someone I have met briefly on a few occasions. He recognizes me, I recognize him. We exchange greetings and he tells me he's there for the same thing I'm there for, except that in his case, they're going in the other end.
We speak for a few more minutes and then an orderly comes and starts wheeling him off to the appropriate room. As he departs, he yells back to me, "I DON'T WANT TO READ ON YOUR WEBLOG THAT I HAD A COLONOSCOPY THIS MORNING, EVANIER! DO YOU HEAR ME? I DON'T WANT TO READ THAT ON YOUR WEBLOG!"
Today, I received an e-mail from Joseph Burns, who I gather started reading this blog in the last few weeks. He tells me that while he keeps up with my current postings, he has also gone back to Day One and begun reading postings from when I started this thing. Every few days, he makes it through another month and is now up to early '06.
When he came upon the above item, he wrote to ask me, "Since 12 years, 8 months, 9 days have passed and since I don't believe you ever promised the well-known TV personality-actor that you'd keep his secret, can you now reveal who it was? I don't know why but I'm dying to know."
I don't know why you're dying to know but since the well-known TV personality-actor has left us, I don't see the harm in revealing his name now. But then again, he did ask not to have it revealed on this weblog. So what to do, what to do, what to do?
I know what! I won't post his name here. But I will post this link to his IMDB listing…and also tell you that he was a great guy and I loved talking to him later on when we weren't on adjoining gurneys.