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2017 – looking ahead

Posted on December 30, 2016 by admin Posted in My Journey in Life, The Law of Attraction Leave a comment

2017 is gearing up to be a year of great and good changes already. Things have been aligning more favorable for me ever since I took my current caregiving job. Now that I am doing the two things I am meant to do and love – care giving and writing – the good fortune is spilling over into other areas. I have FOUR new website clients during a time of year typically NO ONE is even thinking of working on their website – let alone putting monies out to get them designed. Website design is not my purpose in life, but the Law of Attraction heard me when I was concerned we needed more money to catch up even with the new job and the Universe provided what I needed through it.

This newfound prosperity reminds me of the commitment I made back earlier in 2016 after a data entry job of three months came to an end. I decided to throw myself into something that had been neither steady nor easy, but was something everyone told me was what I was meant to do, and that was care giving. I worked hard at all the small, part-time (and one full time) positions I had at the time, even though they were short-term. Showing the Universe I was now ready to embrace my special talent fully was rewarded with the steady, full-time position I have now. This in turn reminds me of something I learned with a Quattro University instructor, Sensai Ron Thomas. He said, “Do what you love and the money will come”.

It does indeed!

A Year Plus Later…

Posted on November 25, 2016 by admin Posted in Cats Leave a comment

My last post was July 2015 – a year and three months ago. A lot has happened in my life since then and an update here is more than due.

That month back in 2015, my semi full-time client passed away from PSP – Progressive Supranuclear Palsy – a rare, incurable and bizarre disease that shares the same destructive tendencies as Alzeheimers and Parkinsons, but attacking the nervous system in the brain instead of the memory or muscular centers. I had been taking care of her for a year and seven months, so for this to come to an end, while we were anticipating it, was still a harsh and unwelcome change in our income that could not be saved up for due to my husband and my small incomes.

Through loans from his 401k and the small amounts of work I could find (including my website design business), we barely managed to survive until my next full-time job came in data entry November – January. Job hunting again, I jumped back into caregiving, gave it more of my devotion and hard work than I had ever done and it finally paid off in finding a full-time position taking care of a dementia patient which began in August. Coming up on the end of the year now, I am still with him and will be, Goddess-willing, long enough to begin saving up for the next, inevitable job change as always happens in the caregiving industry.

Time has mostly healed all the worst of losing our beloved Main Coon baby girl Harley and I hope to get financially stable enough once again to get another girl to keep her son Rhubarb company. But adopting is EXPENSIVE ($300 and up) and so we struggle against rising cost of living expenses to save even that amount to make that happen. It would have already been done if not for both our cars being older and constantly needing maintenance and breaking down every month.

Other stuff has been going on, but I will leave that to another post. Too long and you’ll fall asleep here. See you next time!

The Consequences of hiring “friends” in care giving

Posted on July 19, 2015 by admin Posted in caregiving Leave a comment

I am free at last to talk about the dear, sweet client who’s side I was by as she lay dying Thursday evening.

It’s a rough ride in the vocation of care giving when patient confidentiality forbids one to share their patient’s condition with even their spouse. It is doubly difficult when your patient and you share so many mutual friends and all you want to do is scream, “She’s dying, Goddammit! Go VISIT HER. I don’t give a FUCK that you’ll feel bad seeing her so ill. Wouldn’t you want someone to do the same FOR YOU?!???”

If one is not mature going into this business, assuming they stick to it (and to their morals), they grow up REAL FUCKING FAST.

I’ve seen a parade of incompetent idiots who claimed to be caregivers, attend to her. One stole from her and her husband (we believe), but I think it was a tie for the LOWEST OF THE LOW between one who stole from the very drugs designed to ease her suffering and the one who walked out of the room and was not there for her when she fell off the commode in the bathroom and broke her hip. If you take away ANYTHING from this post, let it be that, please, dear God in Heaven, NEVER HIRE SOMEONE CLAIMING THEY CAN DO THIS JOB WHO DOES NOT DO IT FOR A LIVING AND HAS GOOD, GLOWING REFERENCES!!!

Moving on and Looking Forward

Posted on July 12, 2015 by admin Posted in Cats, cats and more cats!, Maine Coons Leave a comment

As I contemplated which images I’m going to replace Harley’s with, I ran across this in a post. We have done our grieving and are now at the point where we want to get her son Rhubarb a little companion (or two). I was just thinking it’s harder now to look at her photos and I don’t know why, but I think it’s because Dennis and I need to have the joy of little, tiny paws running around the apartment again. I will always love you, Harley, with all my heart and soul. One day I will be able to look back at those photos and not be in pain, but for now, our healing takes a different direction.