“Dr. Anthony Lucas, Crab Apple Tree Wood, 53 inches tall, Norman’s Yard, North Carolina” 53 inches tall, (c) 2021 Stu Jenks
Price: $395, shipping not included. All pieces hang off the wall. All work is signed, dated, with its title. I will hand deliver the work to anywhere in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. I'll just need some gas money. Outside of the area, I will ship USPS, FedEx or UPS but it'll be pricey. We'll figure it out.
Tony is my friend.
He is also a talented anesthesiologist in Tucson, Arizona. Tony found me the amazing surgeon Dr. Juan Chipollini who did my radical prostatectomy surgery in 2020. Even though Tony is very busy, we still try and text each other once a month or so. Tony has just been hammered since COVID began in March of 2020, but he is well as is his extended family.
I can tell a number of good Tony stories, but I'll just tell this one.
My surgery had been scheduled before COVID started, but we didn't want to push it back, because my prostate cancer was so severe. Tony was going to get one of his team members to be my anesthesiologist but with COVID, that didn't work out. So on the morning of my surgery, whose smiling eyes behind a mask did I see but Tony's. As he put me under, he asked if I wanted to pray. I sure did. We prayed together. After surgery, he was the second person to tell me, after Dr. Chipollini, that the surgery went amazingly well. Clear margins and everything. And in the weeks after, he made sure I was OK, supplying me with numbing cream for my painful privates, and funny stories to help me heal.
Providence, the grace of God or just good luck? Who knows. But I'm blessed to have had him as my anesthesiologist on April 28th, 2020. And I'm continually thankful that he is my friend.
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