On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 09:42:58 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:



"GuzzisRule" wrote in message
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On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 21:30:45 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:



"jps" wrote in message
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We see the world in a very similar way. I've built my company in the
same fashion but the dollar value of our product isn't as high, as
we're in corporate instead of defense.

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Be careful of what you claim to have built. Not politically
correct
now-a-days.

:-)

LMAO!

You gave us a great read. I hope your mom was alive to witness that.
She'd have been mighty proud of
her little boy!

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She's still around, but not in the best of shape. She's 85 and has a
rare form of progressive MS that limits her ability to get around.
My dad died a year before I sold the company. During his last years
he was carting my mother around all over the country to specialists
and medical facilities trying to diagnose what her (then undetermined)
medical problems were. It was after he died that the rare MS was
positively diagnosed.

I am not particularly religious, but things seem to happen for a
reason sometimes. She was going downhill emotionally and physically
after his death. Their house still had a mortgage on it and it was
not ideally set up for a wheelchair bound person. The sale of the
company suddenly put me in a financial position to pay off her
mortgage and then a year later we bought her a house nearer to us that
we extensively modified to accommodate her condition and situation.
She lived there for the next eight years until her physical condition
made an assisted living/nursing home necessary.

As I mentioned to JPS, there are a couple of more chapters to "the
story" that are as bizarre (or more so) as the one I disclosed here.
Someday maybe I'll write a book. Having a little money doesn't
guarantee happiness, but what you *do* with it certainly has it's
rewards that are not necessarily financial in nature.

My mom died in '97. She was living in Seattle, was diagnosed with leukemia, and I talked her into
moving in with us. She didn't like the idea, but eventually realized it was for her own good. The
doctors told me she'd probably live another 5-7 years. She moved here in August and died in October
of the same year. Damn shame.

Sorry to hear about your mom's health. Sounds like you've done all you can.