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Good News... Tear My Heart Out

Posted at RLSC Real Estate Training Blog by Rich Levin

Jun. 17, 2008

Sitting in the sauna… reading. Tony walks in carrying his oxygen tank that is his constant companion. It was a particularly interesting part of my book so I ignored Tony.

Then he said, “I went to the doctor and got some good news. I’m down to two hundred and eighteen pounds. I have been off my diabetes medicine for over a week with no sign of the disease. The doctor said that if I keep my weight down and the diabetes does not recur he is going to put me on the list for a heart transplant.”

Neither, he or the doctor thought his health would return to a level that would qualify him for a transplant. He described the mixture of feelings.

As I listened I had my own mixture of feelings; amazement, pleasure at his good news, awe, compassion.

He left the sauna. I went back to my book. As I pause at the end of the day to reflect I am in awe again. I can’t put it into words. There is just something about the casual context of that conversation and its profound nature that amazes me.

When I see him tomorrow I am going to thank him for sharing that with me.

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