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The facts:

•  I know absolutely nothing about blogs and have only actually read only one or two my entire life.
• 12 years ago my wife and I established the first hospice service in the world (as far as we can find) that specialized in the last few days or even hours of life as opposed to the traditional final six months at end-of-life. 
• We grew very, very quick.
• When we began, we could find only one hospice in the nation who knew the term "continuous care"
• Today every hospice in the country offers 24 hour around the clock continuous care or the patients often choose another hospice
• It has been estimated that by the proliferation and visibility we were fortunate to initiate we have directly or indirectly reached millions of individuals through patients, families, extended families, communities, churches, workplaces, and the spread of the program nationwide.
• We became prime advocates for intensive care in home for patients who wanted to be at home when that time came.
• We made lots of friends. 
• We made enemies.
• We were so successful that we created our own competition by developing the program. Many people who worked with us went on to compete with us and took a large share of our business as well as documentation, policies, procedures, workers, and operational know-how.
• I had a nervous breakdown.
• The government began to intervene. Before it was over the IRS, the Department of Labor, Texas Workforce Commission, and more had mounted a devastating war for reasons never explained nor understood.
• We defended our patient's and the hospices we were privileged to work with with every penny we had.
• On December 21, 2012, without warning, actions of the government caused us to lose all access to our funds resulting in our inability to make payroll the weekend before Christmas. People were left without money not only for Christmas, but for overdue electric bills, car payments, rent, mortgages, and for the good faith act of working and expecting to be paid for doing so.

This blog must define itself by my best effort to avoid bitterness, unprovable claims, and anger in favor of soliciting constructive input, advice,and offering to serve as an instrument to disseminate information. As in most disasters, personal or professional, it seems to be a common expression that no one expects it to happen to them. Surely, it will always be someone else or perhaps whatever it is never really happens at all and claims to the contrary are either exaggerated, incorrectly presented, or fraudulently contrived.

One fact that is very clear and non-debatable: as I write this, I have witnessed the near complete deterioration of the spirit within the rock that holds me up in this life. First and foremost, my faith in God will continue intact regardless what the result is going to be, but the person who keeps me grounded and facing God instead of running from Him in those dark days is crumbling herself. In addition to all the others who have been hurt in these events, my wife has done nothing to deserve such treatment which I have been moved to describe as inhumane. I hear her trying to mute her sobs and she should not be expected to hide the tears that are now perpetually nearer the surface than any time I have known her. The phone rings and I see signs of panic to the point of terror in her face. Will this be the caller upset enough to threaten the safety of our son, herself, or all of us? Will he or she actually try to bring harm into our home?

I do not believe in suicide, but I can empathize to the fullest. In days to come I will chronicle as much detail as I can bringing us to this point in time. I implore anyone with knowledge of how to combat governmental abuse and harassment to forward that information at your first opportunity. What I will explain in these next few days is how absolutely and completely we have performed in best faith effort, always ethical, moral, and legal, and yet we have been persecuted well beyond the breaking point for unknown reasons by the government of the US and the state of Texas.

Our Goals:

• We seek resolution, not revenge. 
• We have to correct this injustice while not pointing angry fingers and lowering ourselves to the level we are protesting. 
• We still want to assume what has happened to us is only over zealousness, misapplied, or misinterpreted regulations, or something not insidious and personal.
• We would be ecstatic to garner media attention.
• We will offer total transparency allowing anyone to ask any question that may or may not be construed as confrontational or negative and still expect an honest answer with records to support said answer. If we have truly done something wrong, we need to know that, too.
• We want to help others on both sides of the situation learn and become better at what their appointed responsibilities required of them.
• We want to help others who find themselves in similar situations.
• We want to do so in a manner pleasing to our Father in Heaven, in Whom I trust to bring the right answers.

Thank you for taking time to read about our plight. Maybe you will be the one with the answer or contact that makes the difference, or maybe you can will move on and forget us very soon. Either way, you spent valuable time with us and it is appreciated.