Round One Done: Hopeful & Grateful

Dear Friends,

Thank you for your support! Some of you I don’t even know. Some I have not seen for many years. At moments like these, you know who your friends are, and you find new friends. You are all my friends. I wouldn’t be where I am without you.

And where am I? Yesterday I completed the first four-day course of immuno-chemotherapy under the very able care of Dr. Kim Hye Ryun and her team. I continue to have the able advice of my old friend, Dr. Tom Gassert, in Boston. A long road ahead but we’re started!

Suffice it to say, this has been a humbling experience. I am better today but still not up to the trip we had planned to my organic farmer friend Kevin Gallagher’s beautiful village in the Korean countryside. But by next week sometime I am sure I will be up for R&R at his wife Myung Hee’s comfortable, quiet bed-and-breakfast and to great country food. Kevin will return to Seoul to fetch me. My life is much better than I deserve. 

As for the rest, my youngest daughter will soon finish her exams. Thanks to all of you, I will be able to tell her and her mother the truth — that more than business has taken me to Korea, that I am sick, but importantly, that I am getting excellent care and have a good prognosis for recovery.

Initially a worry, MACU, back in Mongolia, continues to hum along at this the busiest time of the year.  Our able young team has risen to the occasion, a relief in itself. I’m not yet back in the saddle but glad that treatment has started. And forever grateful to all of you for your support. I look forward to being able to thank each of you in person.

One step at a time.

Love to all,

Mike