Funny thing when you make a deal with the universe: Sometimes it actually works.
I'm working amazingly steadfast-like on getting my health issues sorted. I'm working with an internal medicine, and ENT, and Allergist, a physical therapist, a counsilor, a fitness coach, and a nutritionist. I've collected just about all the test results (MRIs, Blood Tests, etc.) that I can possibly muster for anything that ails me, and I'm sharing all the info I have with each of them. As of this week, I'm going to physical therapy three times a week. I'm testing my sugar several times a day. I'm keeping a food journal, and Monday I start allergy elimination diets.
I estimate that if I meticulously and tenaciuosly keep up with everything that I need to do, I might be able to get myself healthy enough so that I am truly ready and physically able to handle full time work again in about four to six weeks.
I have a one week assignment the last week of August (starting Monday,) and also a three day full time gig in the middle of September. I did have a one month assignment lined up to start September 1, but coincidentally the universe worked it out so that the one month September gig is postponed. The universe gives. I will have more time in September to work on my health issues.
And yes, the universe gives - with strings attached.
The postponed assignment was not a reprieve, it was not a release to allow myself the time to just work on whatever I want - whenever I want, this 'second chance' if you can call it that - is given with the understanding that I will put myself on a strict schedule, allow the chance for me to be meticulous about my diet, my appointments, my stretching, my excercises, and everything else - and start meditating on what it really is that I want for my art and poetry and how I intend upon achieving that.
And yes, the universe couldn't have been clearer if a prophet had come to me and shouted his condemning words laced with raining spittle into my face, and slammed me upside the temple with the great judge's personalized platinum plated gavel. I feel it wringing in my very bones almost as if it had been placed there with a megaphone. This chance is given with the understanding that it is the best opportunity I will EVER have to get the right doctors in place and the opportunity of time to work my health back up; it is the last of the miraculous cosmicly aligned egresses; and I'd better darn well use it wisely.
Looking for work I can do. Finances are still bad, but I'm realizing that I am injured and I need to take care of health first. Been kicking butt, busting down doors and now I have upcoming appointments with specialists: ENT, GI, Nutritionists, vocational rehabilitation & physical therapy.
We've had an able bodied person who is willing to help us out move in downstairs. The 'cee and I are trying to repair right now, and at the same time, get healthier.
Like I said, I've been kicking butt and busting down doors to get my needs met, I have all kinds of doctors appointments, all kinds of career testing, and have been reaching out to get the help, services and support I need.
For example: I went to a food bank last weekend, and I'm volunteering at another one this weekend. My schedule is full and I am working on making sure I am getting my cup refilled. One day soon it will runneth over again.
bed now, update more later.
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