It's an understatement to say that the last week has been difficult. My best friend, my role model and my partner in crime has had me watching my phone at all times, waiting for the latest bit of good news.
Art Hains, the "Voice of the Bears" and the legend I have had the honor of sitting next to for two hours a day on Sports Talk for the last two years, is lying in a Kansas City hospital bed with what doctors believe is the West Nile virus.
It all happened so quickly. The last time I talked to him, he was probably defending Patrick Mahomes as the best quarterback in football, trying to talk himself into why Missouri State football would beat Arkansas or trying to find a reason to believe in his beloved Kansas City Royals.