NEW YORK
Syracuse.com
By Sean Kirst | skirst@syracuse.com
on May 16, 2015
Almost a year ago, Charlie Bailey’s dentist said to him: You look a little gray. The worried dentist said Bailey should see a cardiologist. Bailey had already gone through all the standard tests, including a stress test and an echocardiogram. Everything about his heart seemed to be fine.
Yet he took the dentist’s advice, and Bailey’s cardiologist had the same worried gut reaction. The doctor ordered an angiogram, which showed Bailey had been walking around with several blockages. “A widow-maker,” Bailey said of the condition of his heart, and he had surgery last year that he’s sure saved his life.
He describes himself as a spiritual guy, although he no longer feels the need for any established church, and he feels as if he’s still here for a mission:
Bailey, 64, will continue speaking out on the trauma he endured as a child, and that means expressing his disbelief at the choice of Cardinal Timothy Dolan, one of the nation’s most influential Catholics, as Sunday’s commencement speaker at Le Moyne College, a Jesuit school.
“I don’t understand it,” Bailey said. “I’m so mad, just infuriated, that he was even considered.”
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