We're having a new boiler installed and I was bleeding the radiators upstairs for our plumber, Tom Paretti, when Carrick and Duncan yelled, "It's on, dad, it's on." I shut the valve and ran down but just missed it. I had the VCR going, however — a test run for tonight — and successfully captured the segment. (It can be done!)
I almost lost it when Ann said that at one point she had asked us if it wasn't time to give up?
Carrick was thrilled to see a shot of her walking Sadie, whom she refers to as "the Prozac dog." It's certainly a lot easier to take than those shots of her shooting up, with the abscess on her arm popping out like a bad memory.
"So many families are going through that exact same thing," Al Roker says to wrap up the segment.
"And you don't think it's going to happen to you," says a woman whose name I confess I do not know.
"It can happen to anyone, and that's what the story shows," Curry replies.
"Wasn't that perfect?" Carrick said, referring to the ending, and we squeezed each other very, very tight. My only regret is that Deirdre was at work, and Duncan was running out the door to his rehearsal for MacBeth, so we could not have a "family hug" like we used to so often when the kids were younger.
I mentioned why I'd abandoned my bleeding task midstream to Tom the plumber, and showed him the article in the Daily News. He immediately noticed that the time was wrong in the callout box for the show. It said 10 PM. "Saving Carrick" is on at 8 PM ET. As I wrote to David Hinckley (with a wink), they don't make copy editors the way they used to.