This Tuesday, my father, and one of the World's Greatest Opticians suffered a brain aneurysm that hemorrhaged. He did post on this site as C-10, but not very often.
Tuesday night, he was flown to Winnipeg for emergency surgery. They used a coiling technique to stop the bleeding and it was successful. Luckily he avoided a stroke (and worse yet), but his cognitive abilities are severally damaged.
The World will be losing one of the last great opticians, as he is forced to retire. An optician of 40 years and an owner of 24.
I am now in the process of taking care of the ownership situation. Don't know what that means right now, as there are some options ahead of us.
I started working for my father at the age of 14. Our relationship improved greatly during my 11 years working for him. We worked hard together to improve the business and had many successes. Through him, I developed a strong ethical core that has defined me as a man and helped make me who I am today. While I went off to obtain my business degree and my Masters, and left the business for other higher paying work, the store is a major part of who I am.
This is a sad day, as the man who worked so hard to help people will lose part of himself to a brain injury.
But I want to dedicate this thread to Cliff Anderson for the dignity, ethics, and respect that he brought to the world of eye care, but most of all for the wonderful job he has done as a father.
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