Too many job rejections to count. I'm down to one school district, but it is one I want. Freaking that I may have to stay here and try to live with no changes to my financial situation with Medicaid. Health though is going well. Medicaid mess is getting settled. Progress is being made. It's just hard sometimes to keep the faith that life will get better from here.
Read more...I am feeling like "hot property" career-wise. There are at least two districts in Illinois that I think will hire me for the next school year. That's in three weeks!!!!! I wish I had a firm job offer though. It's hard to make definite plans, i.e. applying for an Illinois license, without a firm offer. I am just going to let everything happen as it may. I know how to solve some problems that might come up, i.e. going to an office to pick something up directly than waiting for mail.
Emotionally, I am pretty much back to normal. Not to go into detail, but also I was vindicated with a situation from last fall. In October I had to report a non-profit agency regarding their bad business practices, including missusing state funds to the State of Michigan. If I didn't report these illegal actions, I would have been seen as colluding to provide falsified records to the state, which is grounds to lose my occupational therapy license. I lost friends and job opportunities because of the situation. Rumors were spread that were cruel to me. Well, in recent months, 5 more people came forward to report the agency to the state. The agency I reported to, is now in trouble with other state agencies for not doing anything after I reported.
The state came down and closed the agency on Monday, and seized their financial records. It's terrible that hundreds of people will lose their services. But it is the director's fault. The agency was salvageable after I reported. But she kept up her corrupt ways, even after I reported her. She dug her own grave, and finally, the consequences of what she did is rightfully being directed at her. The rumors were that I caused all of this, i.e. the agency to close, but finally the truth is making it through the grapevine. There might be more ramifications. It's not public yet, i.e. local newspapers on what happened. That's probably because the state of Michigan screwed up so bad, they want to keep it under wraps. But anyways, it says a lot about my character that I stood up against this, had terrible consequences, but persisted. I did what was right and truthful. I am proud of how I handled this situation.
Life has definitely been "interesting" lately!!!
Everything is much better--physically, mentally, and spiritually. I am coming out of a major post-traumatic stress episode pretty well now, and life is returning to a semi-normal. I have 3 job interviews in 2 states in the next two days! I will update more afterwards... Laurie
Read more...Everything has been a whir these past few weeks, mostly with good things happening, i.e. job interviews, etc. But what I haven't mentioned to many people is that I was mildly sexually assaulted last week in Chicago...think groping..it only lasted about 2 minutes. I did the right things, i.e. pretending to press an emergency button on my cell phone and saying I was going to scream if he didn't leave. It's not the worst that has happened to me by far, but I am in a full-blown PTSD episode because of it, mostly physical symptoms.
My body is doing weird things...such as I gained 12 lbs. in 5 days, and it's not because of eating or any known medical cause. I think my body/hormones are trying to store weight...my weight has always been my armor against sexuality and men paying attention to me. I have repeated sexual assaults/rapes throughout my lifetime. I've been in counseling forever, and have made great progress. It is so scary though that I am having such physical symptoms...either extreme pain throughout my body or completely numb. I also seem to be having problems with my sleep apnea/breathing at night. I've increased my oxygen, and pressures on my sleep apnea machine.
It's difficult also because I am really in need of medical advice because of my medical conditions, but I am not at a point of telling my doctors yet. My counselor knows, and gave me advice, but I don't know if it is enough to handle it all. Plus it's a long holiday weekend to top it off.
Please pray for my well-being and recovery from this. I know I'll do well, but I need to face that it has happened again. Thanks.
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