Trip to the Emergency Room

January 10, 2004 by JD · Comments Off
Filed under: Family, Friends 

All day Friday, Mom was complaining of pain in her abdomen. After several calls to one of her doctors, she was advised to go to the emergency room, so about 4:00 pm we headed off to the hospital where she was diagnosed with gall bladder trouble. It’s been a rough couple of weeks for her, and this brings a new level of uncertainty to what’s going to happen next week. She has an appointment with her surgeon on Monday for follow-up on the surgery from a couple of weeks ago and I’m sure he’ll examine her for the gall bladder trouble at that point.

Last week, we were sure it was going to be her last week of radiation, but her doctor examined her nose and wanted to wait a few days before continuing treatment. So, we’re scheduled to resume the last 5 radiation treatments starting on Monday.

While we were at the hospital, however, there was good news, too. We were checking Mom in to the ER when someone slapped me on the shoulder and I turned to see my friend, Bill Grove, standing there. He inquired about Mom and then told me his good news.

His wife had delivered their twin daughters earlier in the day. Congratulations!

During the confusion, I didn’t get their names, but Bill said Mom and girls were doing well.

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Make Your Net Auction Sell! ebook is now free

January 6, 2004 by JD · 1 Comment
Filed under: Site Build It 

One of the continuing successes I’ve had is selling handcrafted pewter and silver jewelry for Arch Avary in my Dilbeck Metalsmithing eBay store. (Link deleted, I closed my eBay store.)

I also maintain his site at ArchAvary.com

We don’t make a huge number of sales, but they’re fairly consistent. Over the next few months, I’m going to be helping several other artisans in western North Carolina sell their products on eBay. I intended to get it done months ago, but I’m still playing catch up.

I originally got started with eBay after talking to my brother who was selling all kinds of drag racing memorabilia and being very successful at it.

I looked around for resources, and found an ebook called Make Your Net Auctions Sell!, published by Ken Evoy. I paid the $30 for the ebook, immediately downloaded it, and studied what was presented. A few days later, I opened my eBay account and it’s been active ever since.

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If you have any interest in auctioning your products on eBay or other sites, then you may want to make some time this winter to read this book.

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