One of my good friends on the XS team was told he had a particulary aggressive form of cancer this past week.
I won't go into the specifics as thats his business and not for me to speak about on an open forum but I'd like to speak a bit about the guy himself.
I met him back in late 2005 when I joined the Xs forum.
After working in retail,and wholesale sales for over 40 years you get a feeling about what type of people your dealing with by the way they write.
What I saw in him was a good natured guy who just wanted to help others and to the best of his ability to do so.
We became friends and over time got to be very good friends.
I finally met him this past January at CES in Las Vegas and found that what I'd felt was true.
Just a guy, but a nice one.
At his home I saw the level of comitment he'd put into this project.
Over 20 high end machines running on WCG.
We spent a lot of time together that week and I got to know the man behind the name. Just plain committed to doing what he could to help eradicate this disease.
Then last week he tells me about what the Dr's told him and it broke my heart to hear this was happenning to him of all people.
I'm 57 and he's a little bit younger than I am and even at this age with many years behind you of seeing the good and bad in life I couldn't find the words to say to him how I felt.
You go through the different emotions from shock to anger to questioning why this is happenning to such a good person and you finally get to the point where it doubles your resolve to fight this disease with all you have in you and hope and pray that it will save people like this.
My apologies if this is in the wrong section but this has been tearing at me since last Wednesday.
Thanks for reading.
Dave