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I am back from Iran, alive but definitely not kicking

June 17th, 2009 · No Comments

I usually try to keep religion and politics out of my blog, although I frequently mention my belief in highest of the high, the most holy, our living and present Creator. The reason is that although the name of this blog has personal in it, it is primarily a real estate blog and as I have mentioned in the web-site “You are much more than a dollar sign to us. When you contact us, all we see is someone who decided to trust us with the potentially largest investment of their life, and we will not betray the trust invested in us, period.”

I have not qualified my statement with race, religion or nationality or political affiliation as I truly believe with all my heart that we are all creations of the “same creator” on earth and brothers and sisters as such. I have frequently congratulated our Chinese, American, African, Moslem, Christian, Jewish, Indian, etc and Iranian brothers and sisters on their happy occasions. Needless to say, as an Iranian- American who has lived 31 out of my 50 years in United States I feel closer to and like my Iranian and American brothers and sisters a bit more than the rest.

I usually try to go visit my beloved mother (Naheed Soleymani), father Mohammad Saleh Saberzadeh (Baba)and brother (Dr. Mehdi Saberzadeh) and dear sister-in-law who I love as if she was my sister (Professor Mitra Mehrazma) and Aria my nephew and other relatives once a year. I have done this for about 20 years and am very happy about it as my own family is not strangers to me.

This year the trip was much more serious as my 81 year old father who has a bad heart (six bypasses), diabetes and other problems is going through last chance chemotherapy to cure his leukemia and having a hard time with it. The medications that he takes have had an adverse effect on his brain and at times he is unable to put a sentence together. This and sever osteoporosis which has ravaged my mother’s body had brought sadness to their home and everyone was depressed, even my younger brother who was one of the top medical students in the country and currently is a surgeon. On the other hand, by the time that I left for Iran, I was in a great deal of trouble myself and was practically unable to walk more than a couple of minutes due to my bad knees and all the joints in my body were on fire.  I couldn’t go on anymore and wanted a full checkup.

Before I left for Iran, I prayed to our Creator to bring happiness and healing with me to our home and to my amazement that is exactly what happened. Baba (my father) went through a vicious round of chemotherapy unbelievably well, a couple of days after his treatment he was eating half a pound of ice cream at a time and for the first time I heard him laugh out loud. My brother, Dr. Mehdi Saberzadeh, his wife and dear sister-in-law and other doctors were dumbfounded and attributed this to Baba’s happiness due to my arrival.  I told them that they were wrong, it was a prayer answered.

Although I was hoping that knee surgeries would take care of my knee problems, I was told by two of the top knee surgeons in Iran that the only solution is knee replacement surgeries which I am not ready for. The doctors also discovered serious problems with joints in my neck and onset of serious osteoporosis, which is reversible.  A life style change is unavoidable.  Other than the left knee I feel much better and my body is not on fire any longer although that is subject to change without notice.

Next I will write about the election in Iran and the current heroic efforts of our sisters and brothers in Iran to challenge the government of  Mr. Ahmadinejad who has done great damage to Iran and Iranians and needs to be stopped. Notice that I have put Iranian sisters before brothers as  they are taking a leading role in these protests and I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw one of them repeatedly karate kick an anti-riot policeman on TV.

I was hoping to catch up on my analysis of Las Vegas real estate prices by grids and other matters, such as updating residential market reports which I am 4 months behind on while in Iran. Needless to say this didn’t happen due to not having DSL until 4 days before my return trip. There are a ton of investors that I have to contact since I am the one who takes care of them. Real estate blogs start after I get done with this series and there is much to discuss.

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