I cried today when I told my wife I might not be here next Thanksgiving!

Last Friday I had another CT scan. The scan hadn’t been read by a radiologist when I had the consultation with the oncologist. His comments were guarded, “tumors in the abdominal cavity had grown.” He had switched chemo drugs about six weeks prior and it’s an indication that the new drug wasn’t doing what the previous drug had done. I had endured the worst three weeks of my life with treatment effects.

On the other hand, he said, “your protein is good! That’s an indication you’re doing something right nutritionally, besides, you’ve proved the mortality prognosis of your surgeon wrong.”

My nephew who is a radiologist and owns a large MRI clinic in New York concurred with the oncologist, but goes into more mater-of-fact discussion. It’s not hard to read between the lines to know my days are numbered. Even though, he’s an encouragement and one that has made me think about being sure I’ve done what is needed to take care of my wife.

Well, all in all, it’s tough getting one’s arms around what’s happening, but I must say that I am thankful for the life I had and the days with some quality that will be left for me to live out with a positive attitude.

On the positive side, my wife and I are moving to an adult independent living community (they also have four levels of care beyond independent). It’s a really nice place, one of the best in the state; in addition, I am thankful for family and their support and help. The thankful list can go on . . . but I’ll spare you the details except to say our secured debt in the business is paid off.

With the move, we will be selling the house. We’ve got someone to do an estate sale to get rid of what we don’t take with us. The next challenge is the business.

I need to talk to you about the business options. [Long-time employee] has kept things running during all of this. She has a great attitude and loves us like family. I try to do little things like buying her a precooked Thanksgiving dinner that will feed an army. Her response tells and we are thankful for her contributions.

I think I’ll go home and have a rare Bombay Gin & Tonic while I warm up the Anastasi beans, rice and kilbasa, and then sit down and enjoy a piece of my homemade mince-meat pie

Many thanks & Happy Thanksgiving …
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Just a reminder for us all that even in these tough economic times, we can all find something to be thankful for. Have a great Thanksgiving weekend …

Steve.

CPrint has numerous task sheets as described but they are usually used with the consultant and the affiliate as opposed to selling them on the street. And yea, it would be a great product. Gonna have to give that some thought although they are not available to the public right now. Will letcha know though.

Thanks

Tom

Does the Cprint organization have a bunch of these “task sheets” already made up and ready to be modified in Word? Is that one of the benefits of Cprint?

I’m thinking that many of the tasks are very similar for each print shop and a book of these task sheets would be a great product for you to sell me! (In electronic format.)

Thanks,
Ron