Today is Dr. Jack’s birthday! I really hope it is a wonderful day for him. I know that his day will be filled with sports for his boys, and I hope some time with his wife and many friends. Like most weekends, I know he will be busy.
Dr. Jack leads an extremely busy life. He has his chiropractic business, his health care business and he has the thing that is the most important thing in his life, his family. I love listening to him talk about his family. His entire face changes when he talks about his wife and his boys. His devotion to them is written in every aspect of his face, and it is his priority, as it should be. I admire that about him so much. He supports his family in all things, is constantly coaching a team, and with his wife, taking his sons to events they enjoy. He is a the perfect role model of a husband and father.
He cares so much about all his patients. He is everything a doctor should be. He gives so much of himself to others and I am so grateful to him, for all he has done to help me. It isn’t that he has helped me get my health in check, it is that he has been such a great friend to me. He has stood by me through these trying times of my life and given me permission that it is okay. That I just need to ride out the storm here and then things will get better. That on this road of my health journey, life happened. He has been kind enough to just patiently wait for me to get back up and running.
You see what most people don’t understand and never will, Dr. Jack has not just fixed the Big Bad Hashimoto’s Disease in me, he has step by step, often inch by inch cured what really hurt. And that is a gift I can never repay. He has cured what no one else could, and what I couldn’t. The job isn’t over yet, but has it been life changing? It has changed every possible aspect of my life.
I often wish I could give some gift that would mean something for all that, but what could I possibly give? If you google search, gifts for a man who has changed your entire existence in this life, not too much that is equitable pops up. I am lost as to what to give…….I could stich him up a super hero cape, but he would be way too modest to actually put it on. Ha ha…. I have considered it, ;)…
I could offer something overpriced and exorbitant but he would never accept such a thing from me anyway. And if I had told him I was writing about him today, he would have told me not to, because he is way too modest. Believe me I have tried to tell him on countless conversations. When I try to, he stops me, he changes the topic. Or he tells me that we did it together. He won’t hear it and he would never accept credit.
I wish sometimes that I could find the perfect thing to express my gratitude, but it really doesn’t exist. I suppose I could give a question free, email free day. A gift of my silence, ha ha…. but as you see, I already failed! I wish I could find the perfect “thing,” especially today of all days, but despite the search, I come up empty handed.
So I guess for today, all I can do is say Happy Birthday, and wish him well And I hope that today is a wonderful day, filled with all the things he loves because no one deserves it more! I hope the birthday wishes from friends and family make him feel “stuffed,” with how others feel about him. I hope dinner and friends are a part of his day, and that laughing, joy and a little off plan are involved, just no yucky sugar filled cancer feeding cake. I hope it is a great birthday for a wonderful man who puts everyone else before himself.
Every day I wake up and take time to thank God for everything I have been given. Dr. Jack is always on that list. He is an amazing man, an exceptional doctor, and without a doubt, continues to be a life changing influence in my life. When it comes to human beings? Definitely top shelf.
Happy Birthday Dr. Jack!