Hello and welcome! Or welcome back! And welcome back to me, as well!
You may have noticed, it’s been a minute or two since I last posted on here. In fact, it’s been more than a year. That coincides with my being diagnosed with colon cancer.
In that year, I did twelve weeks of aggressive chemotherapy, followed six weeks later by five weeks of daily radiation/chemotherapy treatments. Another six weeks after that, a week before Christmas, a surgeon removed the twenty percent of my colon deemed necessary to ensure all traces of cancer were gone. Then at the end of May this year (2025), the temporary colostomy bag I had to wear until my colon had fully healed was removed during a second surgery to “reconnect my plumbing.”
I hope you’ll be happy to know that they got it all and the odds of it recurring are as close to nil as you can get according to the surgeon.
As some of you know, for a year-and-a-half before all that, we were dealing with Tracy’s cancer (Multiple Myeloma). That also included two surgeries. In addition, she had to have a stem cell transplant to reboot her immune system. She’s only just now close to getting back to normal, redoing all the childhood immunizations all of us got in school.
That all started at the end of September 2022. So, we’re coming up on three years that the two of us have been dealing with cancer in one way or another and I’m happy to say that both of us are good to go. Tracy’s Multiple Myeloma is in remission and my colon cancer is one hundred percent cured.
As I’m sure you can imagine, dealing with all that, some things slipped through the cracks. I went back and checked – during the two years before all of this, Tracy was writing at a blistering pace. Each of those two years, she released twenty-six books. During that same time, I was editing approximately six books per month.
Unfortunately, cancer robs the patient of not only energy but enthusiasm and creativity. In the first year Tracy was undergoing treatment, she managed to eke out a whopping two books. During that same year, with Tracy as incapacitated as she was – at one point, she was in a wheelchair – with all of the extra I had to take on as a result, my editing fell off a cliff.
Time for that to change. The last step for our lives to get back to normal again. I’d like to formally announce that I’m now accepting editing projects again. If you’re in the market for edits for your current manuscript – developmental, copy editing, or proofreading – I want to hear from you.
You can check out all the details here.
Put “Recovered and Rebooted” in the subject line of your email, and for the months of July and August 2025, you’ll get a 20% discount on my posted rates.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Mark