Hi everyone. Leo Notenboom here, for Ask Leo, for NotAllNewsIsBad.com, and SevenTakeaways.com.
Yes, this is not an Ask Leo video per se. I’m actually bundling it for several of my publications that have been affected over the past couple of months. Folks that are subscribers to Not All News Is Bad and 7Takeaways will have noticed that it’s been on hiatus since around Thanksgiving.
Ask Leo, as it turns out, has been run wonderfully by my staff — Connie, Mary Beth, and Mark. Since then… what? Well, I’ve not really been around since Thanksgiving, until I just started to poke my head back into things about a week or two ago.
What happened? Well, two days before Thanksgiving, I took a very hard fall. What followed was emergency surgery, three fused vertebrae, and over a month’s worth of recovery. I spent a week in the hospital. Here’s an image of what is inside of my neck right now.
The good news is that the recovery progress has exceeded expectations. I’m at least back to, say, 90% of what I would consider my state before.
The big thing that just happened in the last few days — this last week — is that until earlier this week, I was wearing a neck brace 24/7. That is now being phased out, and I expect that within the next few days, I won’t be wearing it at all. Given that I was wearing that thing for the last seven weeks — eight weeks now — it was very difficult to get a haircut. So the gateway to this video being recorded, and my getting back into the saddle in front of the camera, was the haircut that I got this morning.
Now, I do have some fall-related updates for each of the three publications. Not All News Is Bad resumes today. Seven Takeaways should resume this Sunday. I have about two weeks’ worth of content in the pipeline for Ask Leo, but I’ll be returning to that full-time now as well.
But the bottom line: in case you noticed I was out, I’m back, and I’m doing very well.
I’m Leo Notenboom, for AskLeo.com, SevenTakeaways.com, and NotAllNewsIsBad.com. Thanks for watching.
