Thank you and an update:

I want to thank all of you here for your support in the last few months. Between my Dad's heart problems and my job it got to be a lot to deal with. I can never tell you all how much your support helped keep me going during it all.

My appontment went thru, I am back on the tax board to do the work I enjoy (and feel good about.) Last week one of my fellow board members went before the House Ways and Means Committee to testify about the work we did on hospital tax exemptions and the lack of charity care that hospitals actually provide. He was met with some very real interest. More than one Congress critter asked the big question, "WHAT, exactly, are we getting in return for these hospital tax exemptions we give out?"

Nothing has really happened yet, but the winds of change are blowing.

I took today off to go celebrate my daughter's birthday with her at school. I start in my new office tomorrow. I have celebrated all weekend the knowledge that I do not have to return to that abusive situation I was in. Oddly enough, my insomnia has improved a great deal--I'm working to wean myself off the Xanax that I've been on for the last few months.

My Dad's outlook is not good. Three heart attacks and two cardiac catherizations in a six week stretch is mighty hard on a man of 77 years. He's weak, but he's not in a hospital. Docs are saying six months from now they may want to put in a pacemaker to help him. I have no idea if he's going to LET them do it, but at least they haven't sent him home to die, they are still offering him some hope...

We treat every day like the gift that it is and hope for the best.

Bless you all for your support and help in this all. I have no idea where the next few months will end up. I know now, for a fact, that just changing offices to get away from the abusive boss will lighten the load a great deal. I also realize now that I do have a great deal more support than I ever realized.

Thanks.


Laura

thanks for keeping us posted!

Een though the support here is not personal, or "live", I also value the sense of community and support that I encounter here. So glad to hear that you have experienced it as a real positive seeing you through a very difficult time.

Congrats on your new job once again! :bounce:

:hug:

DemEx

and some :hug::hug:Laura

So great about the job...thanks for keeping us updated.

Glad you are enjoying the time with your Dad..... staying in the moment is the only way to go.

I love the way we support each other here...

:loveya:
DR

:hi:Demex :hug: :loveya:

hope all is well with you too....

:loveya: :hug:

DemEx

sounds like you're finally where you can really serve. Thank heaven.

And best wishes for your father's health and healing.

I'm so glad to know that the tide is turning for you. :hug:

This has been the most amazing year I have ever experienced. The massive upheavals, crises, roadblocks, and changes in my own life have been staggering. This weekend I had breakfast with friends and we were talking about it; I realized that every single person I know, family, friend, or colleague, has been experiencing the same thing. Some to a greater, some to a lesser degree. The winds of change have been blowing for all, it seems.

It's been quite a ride, and it's not over yet. Let's hang on together.

:hi:

the doctors are waiting 6 months to put a pacemaker in. Have you asked them about that?

During May he had another heart attack and was in the hospital. The Docs finally convinced him to let them do a cardiac cath here locally to check out what was going on with his heart.

They determined that he had major blockage in one of the two functioning bloodlines into his heart. They were able to correct it with a stent--they opened it back up--and he was in his room recovering from the procedure. The docs were pretty optimistic at that point.

Suddenly, Dad grabbed his chest and tells his nurses he's in terrible pain. They called the heart team back into the hospital and they took Dad back in. During the second Cath they discovered he'd thrown a blood clot and it had blocked the other functioning line into his heart. They were able to remove it, but it had already created more damage to his heart.

Now they have Dad on blood thinners and a bunch of other drugs. The Docs are offering him some small hope, I guess, because they are talking in terms of six months from now. That is about as much hope as they are willing to offer, however.

They are waiting for him to get stronger.

Pallas, I have missed you and was worried you'd gone MIA. It is good to see you!


Laura

bored with so little astrology here and just check in every once in
a while to see if astrology has raised its lovely head - :)

Being of a suspicious nature..or maybe just intuitive, I'm thinking that there have been problems with stents acting improperly, being defective, or placed wrongly.......

Anyway, I'm so sorry to hear about your Dad's trials- and I send him
hopes and light for much better health. I have the feeling he wants to go home, to be at home, and that it probably be something he should be allowed to do. And nobody is listening to him.

He's been ready to move on for a while now and is getting progressvely more frustrated. He and my Mom have been married for over 55 years. He's worried about her and I think that has made this all go longer than it needed to--I honestly think the only thing holding him here is his love for her.

Thanks for caring. I'm glad to see you are ok and "checking in!"


Laura