Season 11: 2017 What Happened?

Where’s My Websites?

As I organized the podcasts into “seasons,” I noticed that 2017 didn’t have any episodes.  I didn’t realize that was that was the year that my web host made changes that bonked my websites.

Event #1: Glitch

The post of March 2017, tells of the major glitch that put the brakes on podcasting and many other things…..I had just filmed workouts and was about to launch the new version of QuickFitClub plus QuickFit Tips and Strong and Powerful YouTube Channels.

This led to a period of confusion, inspection, rewriting and re-creating all my websites! Since they had been up for nearly 10 years, that was alot of material!  This was going to take a while to fix!

Event #2: Death

This time, my world was devastated for a completely different reason, the sudden unexpected death of my father. In June, my dad went back up north for his regular summer stay. We had a few chats but then about a week or so later I got the call.  I was crushed. I was always close with both my parents. Mom had passed away 10 years ago, but Dad seemed in good health this year. No weird health issues or events like we’d had in the past, in fact, he had just completed  success radiation for a small cancerous tumor in his throat.

This was the second time it had appeared, and due to doctors not communicating properly, he was scheduled to have his voice box removed! I argued with the doctors, did my own research, encouraged Dad to get a second opinion, which he did in Massachusetts (where he grew up), and those doctors agreed with my opinions (which was to do radiation the second time-the Florida doctors said no to that and scheduled voice box removal-my thought was what harm could the second radiation do? Certainly not as bad as surgery!).

Anyway, we spoke to Dad’s radiologist in Florida and he said, sure he could get that spot! Apparently he was left out of the loop in this second appearance of cancer.  My Dad and I were both grateful that my common sense and thought processes threw up red flags about the course of action.  Dad said, “Are you going to get me out of this surgery?” and I replied, “Yes, you are not doing the surgery.” Ironically, the doctors didn’t respond to my messages about canceling the surgery that was scheduled for 6am on a Monday, at a hospital about and hour and half away from us, and called Dad that Monday morning wondering where he was. Hey, I did my part, they should have answered the phone on Friday!

His death was more of a shock knowing that we had beaten the cancer twice.  There is so much more to the backstory, but that can be another time if anyone is interested.  I just wanted to document here why there were no episodes in 2017.

Event #3: Battle

Can’t get into details on this, but the sudden loss of my dad, who was my best friend too, was hard enough to process, but I was about to begin almost 4 years of hell settling his estate.  This also explains why 2018 had only a few episodes and 2019 had none.

Event #4: Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire

A month after that part was concluded, Covid hit and the gym shut down, my business came to a stop. This actually gave me time to get all my websites back on track, and that was alot of work!  Having trouble lately coming up with topics for the Podcast or there would be more episodes. I’m working to get back on that weekly schedule and create some programs again!