COMEDOWN DEPARTMENT: How the mighty are fallen: from QB and corporate pinnacle to prison and poverty

Woman convicted in Art Schlichter fraud scheme: 'I cry every day' - Chicago Tribune



Earlier story:



http://myfox28columbus.com/news/local/tell-all-book-about-buckeye-great-who-fell-from-grace-and-into-prison



"Don't let a man take all your money..."  prescient advice, not heeded.....



Schlicter's federal term ends 2020, but he still faces more time due to state level conviction.

Comedowns are the flip side of Comebacks, here's one for a Super Bowl Great

Joe Montana at 59: 'I can't really run or do much'

An Extraordinary Comedown: RIP Chef Benoît Violier, gone too soon at 44

Why Did the World’s Greatest Chef Just Kill Himself? - The Daily Beast

In conversation with a friend recently, on the new book "Clementine," about the remarkable Winston Churchill spouse, and the Churchill family, whose history included affairs, alcoholism, depression, suicide et al, my bon ami made the assertion:  "All families are screwed up."   I think in just five words he summarized the history of humanity.  With the self-inflicted passing of this famous chef, here is yet another such tale, and more such evidence.

Suffice to say regarding those around us:  what we see on the surface is very often not what's going on underneath.........

The story of one very brave young woman and an extraordinary comeback

Facial tumor barely slows down Tashima | The Winnetka Current

Tenor performs Schubert while undergoing brain surgery without anaesthetic | Daily Mail Online

Tenor performs Schubert while undergoing brain surgery without anaesthetic  | Daily Mail Online

Nicki Milin Comeback Story

Nicki Milin thinks Popeye had a brain injury. The telltale signs are
all there. The cartoon sailor’s iconic squint and fixed scowl. The way
he talked. (“I yam what I yam.”) The way he ate his leafy greens with
only one side of his mouth.

Could the lumbering Bluto have knocked him one too many times in the
head? Or was it internal—say, a brain bleed—out on the high seas without
the care of a certified specialist at hand?

If so it could not have been any worse than Milin’s own experience.
Milin, who is no stranger to brain bleeds, never thought she would ever
need brain surgery until she suddenly could not stop the world from
crashing down around her. Or what she refers to as her “tsunami moment.”

Full story:

Nicki Milin Brain Bleed

....then you win

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi