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Gaining and maintaining wisdom from life experience.

My staff and I are quite close.

Things stay busy these days, so there isn't a lot of downtime.

But I've worked with some of these folks for over a decade.

We don't discuss every grisly detail of our lives with each other, but we do share.

We care about each other.

So when one of the worker bees mentioned he was having some potentially serious medical issues,

I asked for details.

Turns out he went to his doctor for a hard lump on his throat that was getting progressively

bigger.

Initial pokes and prods were inconclusive.

An MRI led to a biopsy, which led to an email in the middle of the afternoon with the results

and a hell of an opener.

This may be cancer. May helped. It wasn't a sure thing

yet. For the next couple months, he continued getting tests to confirm one way or the other.

A full body scan confirmed hypermetabolic activity in the lump, just like an active cancer

would show. No other tissues

showed up on the scan, meaning nothing had spread or originated elsewhere. No cancer confirmation,

but his doctors were definitely leaning in that direction. He had meetings at the Cancer Center,

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