Post #10: In Chicago until Dec. 24th.
We tried our best to keep busy while waiting at the Comfort Inn in downtown Chicago before our visit with Dr. Nicolas on Dec. 24th. We did a little shopping near the Water Tower, went out to eat and waited for our next visit with Dr. Nicholas scheduled for Dec 24th at noon, all the time keeping my mind on trying to get those liver enzymes down. I sent a note via Linkedin to an old friend, Terry Gladman in hopes that he was still living near Chicago. I knew Terry Gladman from my old Ohio state days when we both resident advisors in the dorms there. Years later, I bumped into Terry at Lilly corporate center where surprisingly I found out that he was working sales for Lilly in the Cleveland area. We rekindled an old friendship at that point and kept in touch again for several years. Later on, Terry left Lilly and went to Chicago to work for Searle. This was in the late 1990s. We visited Terry up in Chicago several times while he was working there. Terry’s life changed again during that time. He and his first wife split and he remarried, and had 4 children, (much later in life that Patty and me). Around 8 years ago, Patty and I again rekindled our friendship and drove up to Chicago to meet with Terry, his wife Margaret and his four children. We even played some golf together. Unfortunately, we lost touch again until this moment.It was just a stab in thin air to try to find him on a professional networking site called Linkedin. In fact, I did find him there, sent him a note and he responded. Turns out that Terry (at my age!) took a high senior position in pharmaceutical advertising with Novartis in Switzerland. I thought that he was now living there and in fact that is his home base. Fortunately, he was back in Chicago right now for the holiday season. We arranged for Patty and me to lunch with Terry and his wife Margaret near our hotel on Monday, Dec 22nd and had a great time catching up and remembering old times. It was very enjoyable for all of us.
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