Roger Simon, Politico’s chief political columnist who has been absent since last October, is back.
What has he been up to? In his first column back, he explains:
Q: Where have you been? It’s been months.
A: I decided that while anyone can write about health care from the outside, it takes a real journalist to explore it from the inside.
Q: So?
A: So I had my legs cut off.
Q: That’s not funny!
A: You’re telling me. You want to know what’s funny about losing your legs?
Q: What?
A: They’re always in the last place you look.
Q: I can’t tell if you are making this up. How did you lose your legs?
A: Would you believe a sky-diving accident?
Q: No.
A: How about a snowboarding pileup?
Q: No.
A: How about I got an infection and it led to blood poisoning?
The doctors had to cut off my right leg below the knee and almost all of my left foot. After a long stint in intensive care, then seven weeks at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, I am now in a wheelchair. But I can’t wait to get back on my own two — artificial — feet again.
Read the entire, darkly hilarious Q+A here.