FW: Real Estate and Cancer

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            Well, finally.  The best buy in West Houston has sold, closed and funded.  Yes, the 64 acres with all utilities for $15,000.00 per acre has sold.  Man, I know Richard and Ken are happy and 3 or 4 years from now the buyer (a European investor) is going to be real happy.  For SALE 628 acres with 9,113 feet of road frontage.  4,580 feet of that is on FM 529.  The owner is asking $12,500.00 per acre.  That 46 acres I have for sale on Clapp road just north of Pattison, Texas.  The buyers are getting close, but it is still for sale.  Check out the Texas Landscape and Marquee saying at www.TrueToTexas.com

 

            Cancer update -  Everyday is a gift.  I’ve had ups and downs, but a huge majority of my life has been a song.  Back around February,  2003 I went to M.D. Anderson Hospital at my family doctor’s suggestion.  I was having a hard time swallowing.  My family doctor had done some test and had forward them to M.D. Anderson.  Well, the surgeon looked at my test, looked at me and said that we needed to operate.  That I had a cancerous tumor on my esophagus.  He said that it was a very hard and risky operation,  a 10 hour operation, minimum (if everything goes OK) 6 month recovery and just a 50% chance to survive 5 years.  He said they just don’t predict longer than 5 years.  The surgeon said that he was scheduling the procedure for the next morning.  WAIT !  I had to think about this.

High School Girlfriend and I were building a new home, no permanent loan yet.  Rachel was getting married in July.  I needed to think about all this.  The timing was just wrong.  Please God, can’t we do this some other time?  I procrastinated.  AND, I didn’t tell a sole.  High School Girlfriend says that I can’t keep a secret.  I can.  The tumor subsided, swallowing was easy and the best 5 years of my life followed.  I walked little Rachel down the isle, construction was completed on our new home,  can you believe, we got a 4% home loan.  My real estate business boomed.  AND the icing on the cake, God allowed me the time to be there on February 13, 2008 to see little Dixon Charles Kellner’s arrival.  Around June 2008 the tumor came back.  I was at peace with myself and at peace with God.  I made an appointment with the same surgeon at M.D. Anderson.  I told the surgeon I had been here before and already had a hospital I.D. number.  He pulled it up.  And said, “you were supposed to have come back the next day?”  I told him that I had already outlived all of his predictions and that it had been the best 5 years of my life.  My life was in the hands of God.

            OK, I’m ready, last August 2008 the surgeon suggested they radiate and chemo me for a month to reduce the size of the cancerous tumor before they operate.  Then, I was to build my body and immune system up for 30 days.  Well on September 30, 2008 they wanted to check me over completely.  You know, x-rays, CAT scan, PET scans, biopsies and more.  They wanted to really pin point the tumor, before they operated.  Well, I’m ready, I’m there at MD Anderson when I see these two High Dollar Doctors talking, about me, I’m sure.  I asked, what’s the conversation?  Well, your tumor has shrunk, and we can’t find a cancerous cell in you or on you anyplace.  But, we think we ought to operate anyway.  I bypassed that and went into a check and see mode.  February clean, May clean,  life is but a song.  August, cancer pops up on my lungs and back bone.  More chemo.  Last week they did all the test, again.  The chemo isn’t working.  The cancer has spread to many parts of my body.  I thank God for “the best 5 years of my life”.  Dr. Ho and I decided that the best thing we can do, is go into a pain management mode.  Dr. Ho, not in these words, said that I need to be prepared for my last “road trip”.

            Now cowgirls, don’t get the wrong idea, as long as I can ride I will work.

 

Chasing the Texas sunsets,

always

 

Craig Dickson

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