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Carpentersville, Illinois

Let's just say that I have found that when you least expect it, life throws you a curve (or two). After 22 years working at Motorola, I made the difficult decision for early retirement....what with the extreme job stress and the company split and sale of their Networks division and finding myself the caregiver for my parents; my mother of whom has many health issues along with being on kidney dialysis. Then after leaving Motorola I was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. (Wow, never saw that one coming!) I had successful surgery to remove 1-1/2 feet of my colon, my appendix and 43 lymph nodes (8 found to be cancerous). To the dismay of my oncologist and many others, I opted not to