'The moral of this story is that having ADHD is debilitating when you choose not to do anything about it. There are solutions. Things will only improve when you decide to start looking for them.'
. Then I knew we were talking about time-management difficulties and not fraud. He suggested that I call him every day to check on the status. Need the reminders, he said. So that’s what I did. After about eight more phone calls, he said the ring was finished and I would have it in two days. Two days came and went, so I called him again. “Oh, your package got lost in the back of my wife’s minivan. It’ll go out tomorrow.
More daily phone calls. I got an e-mail on December 29 at 3 a.m. telling me he had just finished the ring. It arrived on the 30th, the day before the wedding. My beautiful powder blue stone had been replaced with a piece of junk that looked more like coal than a sapphire, and it had a chip in it. The setting was worse than before.
Perhaps the most frustrating thing about all this is the untreated ADHD. Not so much my own ordeal (although that was, that breaks my heart. I can’t see how he will be in business for much longer. This guy could be a millionaire. Instead, he’s losing money and pulling his hair out. Which is really a shame, because he is passionate about his creations and has the capacity to bring joy to a lot of people via gems and precious metals.
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