Surgery, Christmas, And a Top-Shelf Newsletter

I want to give you a quick update on things. You may have noticed I haven’t blogged any­thing new in a while. But there’s a reason.

Before I explain, check out this free newslet­ter. It’s high qual­ity, with top-​​shelf con­tent, and it’s 100% free. I’m proud of it, because I was a part of its incep­tion, and my wife and I are in the pre­miere issue.

I believe it’s going to be the gold stan­dard in the Inter­net mar­ket­ing newslet­ter indus­try. When so many newslet­ters out there are paid for and marketer-​​specific, this newslet­ter cov­ers a wide range of mar­ket­ing top­ics, strate­gies, and experts.

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Note that there will be an offer on the result­ing thank-​​you page for a dif­fer­ent prod­uct. But you’re not held hostage, and the newslet­ter will still arrive in your email inbox, even if you refuse. It’s not manda­tory at all. Sign up and instantly get your first issue.

Now, speak­ing of my wife, here’s the rea­son why I’ve been out of the loop…

As some of you know — if you fol­low me on Twit­ter — my beau­ti­ful wife, Sylvie Fortin, had surgery yes­ter­day. She had an ovariec­tomy to block the pro­duc­tion of estro­gen, which in turn pre­vents her breast can­cer from mak­ing an unex­pected comeback.

Fol­low­ing her chemo, she was on hor­mone ther­apy for a while, which does the same thing. But she has to con­stantly deal with hot flashes and dis­com­fort — and pain! — asso­ci­ated with the med­ica­tion and the hor­monal roller-​​coaster ride.

This surgery will not only con­trol her estro­gen on a per­ma­nent level, but also it will, in large part, elim­i­nate most of these side effects, too.

She’s back home recov­er­ing nicely. Thank goodness.

Since she will be out of it for a few more days (and we expected this), we decided on cel­e­brat­ing Christ­mas last week­end. We had the entire fam­ily over, and I had one of the best French-​​Canadian sta­ples of the hol­i­day sea­son… We call it, “Tourtière!”

(That’s meat pie, by the way.)

She woke up this morn­ing (in between pre­scribed mor­phine hits every four hours), and she was strong enough to cook her­self a meal — she was hun­gry as couldn’t eat any­thing 24 hours prior to her surgery.

Not only that, but she was also strong enough to get on her com­puter and check her email!

(Our friends chuck­led when they heard this. They said, “Now that’s a hard­core Inter­net mar­keter, when you can’t wait to check your email after a major surgery, LOL!”)

All this to say, I might be tak­ing a bit more time off to take care of her over the hol­i­days. So if you don’t hear from me until then, I want to take this oppor­tu­nity to wish you a very happy Christ­mas, and a joy­ous hol­i­day season.

And please, don’t for­get to check out this free newslet­ter. Go there now and signup. The first issue has sev­eral insight­ful arti­cles, includ­ing an arti­cle from Sylvie and me about the power of multi-​​dimensional key­word research — you’re going to love it!

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