Rural Carrier family,
I want to share something personal with you. I have recently been diagnosed with oral cancer. I will be having surgery Monday March 2nd, 2026 and I will be in the hospital for a week or more. I will have part of my jaw removed and a few other things I won’t go into here.
Because of this, I won’t be able to continue to keep you updated with the latest rural carrier news for a while. My last post for a bit will be my upcoming Rural Carrier Monthly Newsletter that I will post this weekend.
The site will remain up, and I hope you’ll continue to visit, share, and support each other. This community has always been more than just content. It’s been a family.
This website and this community mean a great deal to me. Your support, comments, and shared stories have always been fuel for the work I do here. Right now, my energy needs to be directed toward my health, but this is not goodbye. It is simply a pause. Hopefully I won’t be gone too long but life is unpredictable.
Stay safe out there, and take care of yourselves.
Praying for you. Thank you for your efforts here. Rural carriers appreciate you. Wishing you all the best after surgery and for your healing.
Speedy recovery ❤️🩹
Thank you for all you have done and will continue to do when feeling better!!
Hope you are home and getting better after all the surgery this past week!
We appreciate what you do. More prayers for you here. Heal up good sir!
Thinking of you and yous
Saying a prayer you have a successful outcome.
I’m
Not much of a religious person but will be thinking of you.
Thank you for all you do for all of us!
Good luck with the surgery. Take the time you need to heal up. Sending prayers your way.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
We will be praying bud! If its ok to ask, did you chew tobacco? I have dipped for probably 20 years. Thinking about quitting! Good luck!!
Thank you.. No dipping. This all stems from a rare autoimmune disease called Oral Lichen Planus. Ive had it since 2016 and have been managing it well up until now. OLP always has a small chance to develop into squamous cell cancer and it picked me.
Fight like hell and take you time to heal. Your life is what’s important. You’ve built a legacy here but now, you need to rebuild you. God bless.
Heal up and we’ll be praying for you.