Jon Petersen:  

In 2022 I closed my construction company after being diagnosed with cancer. Since then I've been battling with the side effects of chemotherapy which has been pure hell and doubt I would ever do it again. It's prostate cancer (stage 4) that had spread into my bones and the doctors didn't have much hope but the chemo did work and my last scan showed it was still in one of my ribs but no other bones and still shrinking. I still have cancer in the prostate but my psa number which they use to track it has gone from 48.2 to <0.1 and undetectable for the past few months (normal range = 1- 4.5). As you can see that has pretty much been the focus of everything in my life for the past two years so I don't have much else to talk about these days. I still help out my old customers and subcontractors with their paperwork and try and teach them how to do what we did for them but that hasn't worked out very well. No one had a clue how detailed installing some foundations and burying some conduit could get when you do it like the specifications call for. I've even had to explain to engineers what their drawing were really saying according to industry standards since all they learn is cut and paste these days. (But you have north on 3 different sides of the building on 3 different pages) Anyway, I'm still alive and being a pain in the butt to everyone I can be, just like always. I don't...Expand for more