Quote: "Here I am 5 years later to the day. Thanks to Doc White, my wife and God above, I'm still on the good side of dirt - and I am extremely, keenly humbled to be so."
WOW!
What a humble man!
Great story
You are fortunate!
Thank you for the lessons I have learned from your story
Thanks so much, Ski, much appreciated.
I've had a lot of "humble lessons" the last few years for sure.
I'll tell another story about that....
When I was in recovery those days after the surgery. I had a few visitors, thankfully. Friends smuggled me in Diet Dr. Peppers (and even a hamburger once!) and I heard from all sorts of friends and family.
The only folks I didn't hear from? My employers of the last 15 years. Not one of the four owners even bothered.
That spoke volumes to me, because I was the first employee they ever had when they started the business and I had as much to do with building it as any of them.
Some folks would have been bitter about that and I'll admit it was a cold fish to the face for sure; come to find out, they were concerned about the hit the insurance policy would take because of my cancer! They had even tried to get me to quit before I went in for the surgery, I kid thee not.
Once out of the hospital, I decided to get my proverbial house in order as much as possible, especially since there were huge medical bills to contend with.
I brokered a deal with my long-time bank to consolidate things and cover my medical debt; I tidied up this project, finished that one around the house.
I was on a mission.
Once all that was to my liking, I quit my job and went to work with another company owned by two of my longtime friends who HAD come to visit me several times. I did so thinking I was starting from scratch, not counting on a single one of my longtime customers following me. Basically figured I was working without a net and was VERY apprehensive about it, despite my friends' assurance that I had all the time I needed to get going in my new gig.
Then it started....
One by one, my old customers came looking for me!
It happened so quickly, and in such numbers, that it was all I could do to keep up with it. Went on like that for the first three months or so on my new job.
It blindsided me so hard that I didn't know how to act, really - I was absolutely stunned!
Phone call after phone call, day after day, it typically went something like "hey, where'd you go?" or "oh no ya don't, you don't leave me with those people!"
I looked at my wife one evening, bewildered, slack-jawed and asked her what the heck was going on.
She smiled and said "for all your banty rooster routine, you actually don't
know, do you?"
When I asked what she meant, she said "all those people don't do business with a company name or logo - they choose to do business with
you because you take care of them."
I was floored....
So very humbling and I had no idea any of them would do that. I felt so unworthy of such a vote of confidence in such a big number.
For a guy who strives to know everything about what I do for a living, it was quite the lesson.
I'll let you all figure out the moral of the story.
