I posted STEVE JOBS - an unwanted baby who became an entrepreneur in April this year and this morning, I thought about his progress after his liver transplant and decided to do another post on him.
In January, Steve Jobs took medical leave to take himself “out of the limelight” and go on leave after learning his health issues were more complex than he originally thought. On June 29th, Bloomberg reported that Steve Jobs went back to Apple Inc. as chief executive officer as planned after taking medical leave in January.
Jobs, a cancer survivor, said in January he would resume his daily duties at the end of June. A week earlier, Jobs’s doctors disclosed last week that he had a liver transplant and said he was recovering well. When Jobs, who co-founded Apple in 1976 with Steve Wozniak, appeared thinner at the company’s developers conference in June 2008, many had speculated that he was ill. Apple first said he was suffering from a “common bug” and then declined to comment, saying his health was a private matter. The shares fluctuated with each new report on Jobs’s health.
Jobs had his transplant about two months ago, according to a person familiar with the matter. Jobs was the sickest patient on the waiting list at the time a liver was available, James Eason, chief of transplantation at the Methodist University Hospital, said in a June 23 statement.
Most liver-transplant patients are back at work in about two to three months, Abhinav Humar, clinical director of the Division of Transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, said this month. He didn’t treat Jobs and has no direct knowledge of his case.
For more about Steve Jobs, please CLICK HERE and also THIS LINK.
Very few people bounce back so quickly after experiencing a major operation. To me, Steve Jobs is certainly a man whom many can look up to for inspiration and the oomph to plod on no matter how dark the day.
Do take some time to read his Commencement Speech at Stanford (2005) to understand his philosophy and perspective of life. If the file does not upload, please click THIS LINK. I really hope that you will take some time read his speech because you will most probably be touched and inspired by the heart of this man who has so much inner strength to overcome the odds when things looked so bleak at every stage of his life.
To be honest, I used to take disappointments very badly - griping and worrying but recent events in the last 8 months have really overhauled my mind and perspective of life to the extent that I can now let go of many things and live with a smile on my face even if things do not go according to plan. From a perfectionist, I morphed into a calmer and stronger character and for this and all those people who touched my life in the past few months - I am eternally grateful.
I live each day now without worrying about the future or the past or even today because I am thankful, so very grateful for what I have and even what I do not have.
At the moment, I am quite sick with a bad URTI (upper respiratory tract infection) triggered by a sinus attack and was a bit flustered with some html codes. Surprisingly, I was not as worked up like I used to be and I can let it go. So what if there are glitches now and then? Life is not perfect, neither am I...or anyone for that matter...It is up to us to see life positively and to move on. I no longer accentuate the negative but try to see the positive in everything that comes my way and you know what? I am much happier, contented and cannot ask for more er...perhaps except for silky hair and a svelte figure :-).
Anyway, do read his speech if you can, ok? Thanks and have a nice day!
P.S. Don't you think Steve Jobs qualifies to be one of the top five most sexy men in the world together with Hugh jackman, George Clooney, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck??? :-)
Crankster I think Steve Jobs is impressive, too. :)