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...'mini' because no life-and-death issues, but still I believe prayer helps good things happen.

Coronavirus hit us like many other small businesses; sick emoyees, fearful customers, extra costs, delayed payments.

We had an agreement that we could stay at our current office site as long as we paid half of rent, with a promise to pay up as we could (CoVD19 hit hard) later after we moved to a place we could better afford (rent with maintenance fees nearly 9k a month). The landlord was going to let us out of the lease early to move to a less expensive place. Tentative move in date to the new place was going to be July 1st, but that facility needed remodeling and with the cv19 the building permit process slowed everything down. We were on the verge of asking if we could stay here until August 1st, but on the 4th of June the landlord filed a court eviction notice saying we had to be out on June 8th, just giving 4 days notice....!
We were able to negotiate a compromise of the 19th, but it's going to be hectic having to move sooner than expected, plus put most of our stuff in storage and I'm not sure if I'll be able to see patients until the new facility is ready. The NEW landlord has been very kind though, and is going to trying to find a place we can temporarily practice next door to the new place.

On top of that 3/7th of our staff found they could make more on unemployment with the government 'cv19 bonus' than if they returned to work...so we had to interview/replace staff as well...!

It's been a crazy week moving into a not-ready place, but I think we will have our stuff out by lock-out tomorrow...
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Can't complain much though; the privilege of being able to (occasionally, often by a hybrid of dumb-luck and Divine Guidance) help patients, makes it worth it.

Man am I tired though....my job is mostly mental, but here I've spent a week moving tens of thousands of pounds of charts,equipment, and furniture. Thankfully my young staff has perseverence, loyalty, and organizational skills to compliment my old-geezer upper body strength and stubnorness-disguised as 'stamina'... :D
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Prayers up Doc.

My wife walked around our downtown area yesterday. She told me many of the long time small businesses have signs saying they are out of business. Some are multi-generational. Most of those are owned by folks my age and they just decided to close shop and retire. The problem will be getting new businesses in those places. I'm reminded daily just how lucky my sisters and I are during this time. And I give thanks daily.
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Prayers for you. I am going through a similar life change after 28 years with same company. I have been blessed and things are looking up if all the plans come to fruition this year. Starting over at 52 is something I never visualized. I am Rolling the dice and going for broke Literally. Independent livestock farming has all but ceased to exist and the Covid effect on the markets have and are driving the few of us left out of business completely. The Packing industry has sucked every bit of equity out of the producers and are still unwilling to let producers have some scraps. We sold sows last week for 10 cents per pound and they would be cheap at 40 cents. hundreds of thousands of baby pigs have been euthanized or aborted by the producers.

I hope that those of us that try to do the right thing, honor our obligations, and live up to our word to the point of bankruptcy will somehow prevail.

Keep up the good work Doc!

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Sure thing Doc......9K a month? 4 days notice? That sucks....maybe you ought to move your business to California where renters have more rights than the landowner.....or maybe you could somehow get hooked up with abortion loving Planned Parenthood and have the taxpayers pick up most of the tab.

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Prayers up.
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Sorry to hear about the trials and tribulations of just trying to stay in business in this crazy world. I hope and pray things turn out ok.
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Prayers up.
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Doc, you are waging a noble struggle, and God bless you and your staff for it.
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Prayers up for your situation Doc.
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Prayers Up.
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Hang in there.
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Update - we had to 'vacate the property' by 5 pm today....and at 4 pm we were pulling away with the last U-Haul load of stuff and keys turned in.

My employees and their families turned out to help with the huge moving project. We made 12 trips with a 20-foot truck packed to the gills...!

Now to sort and settle-in. But at least we beat the deadline hanging over our heads.

God seems to provide a path to those who work for it, and hopefully, deserve it. I guess I have signed up to help a bunch of people stay healthy for the next decade or so....but since that's my passion, it isn't a whole lot different than if one of us got 'called' to develop a perfect hunting load for each and every levergun cartridge using our favorite firearm in each chambering... :mrgreen:

After I catch up on sleep tomorrow I'll be back at-it getting settled in and ready to see patients next week... 8)

Thanks for all your support. Leverguns is a great site, and great people.
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Your welcome doc...you have helped many here, myself included, with your vast knowledge to which we are grateful. Plus, your a fun guy to talk to....great sense of humor!


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Prays up as always for you Doc. My dad was a GP in the old days, passed away in 1973. He could have never lived thru this foolishness.
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Prayers up for sure.
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Continued prays for all medical people and for peace Doc.! You are one of the good’uns.
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Mini Prayers Up!
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Thanks for all your prayers and kind words.

We are getting settled in. Now just gotta get the building permit people to approve putting in sinks and some walls....

....and you all KNOW just how much I love 'bureaucracy'... :lol: :roll:
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sounds like you got the "perserverance gene", a close companion of "dogged determination"...

just think how useful we would have been when the nation was a fresh startup!
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