Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive: The Genius Behind It All Part 2: My Father

Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive:  The Genius Behind It All

Part 2:  My Father

As my sister and I emptied out of the train and jumped into my car, we were both on edge and couldn’t get to the hospital soon enough.  I realized that one’s imagination could be one’s worst enemy.  What ifs were consuming me, but as my dad likes to say, “I don’t do what ifs.”  So I set the ‘what ifs’ aside and rushed into the hospital to see for myself my dad’s status. 

Upon seeing my dad and getting an update from doctors, I was relieved that my imagination was my worst enemy and things were certainly not as bad as what my brain had conjured up.  A sense of relief settled in to some extent.

Now it was time to get to the bottom of what was going on.  Without going into a million details, the long and the short of it was that my dad had somehow gotten blood clots throughout his body.  How?  We will probably never know.  After spending about 5 days in the hospital and taking blood thinners, among other medications, the pain subsided and he slowly got better.

As of today, January 2014, I am happy to report that my dad is back in good health and will soon be ready to fly again.  I guess I bought some time until I have to answer the question….could I run Jaftex on my own?

Hopefully that will be a story for a blog a long time from now.

Stay tuned for part 3.