A Christmas Miracle!

Dec 20, 2014

I had given up on believing in miracles, even though I'd been the beneficiary of them many times, even in the process of getting my DS. 

Somehow, it's always hard to see what's in the rear-view mirror when you're trying to move forward. It's hard to believe that it could happen again.  Personally, when I'm driving, I have to physically turn around and look when I'm backing up.  I don't trust the mirror completely.  It's just a reflection.  And that's great news this time! 

I was erroneously informed that I had "aged out" of the Voc-Rehab program that was going to help me realize my dream of becoming a Bariatric RD! I just got the news from my mailbox today!  I'm thinking I might be able to get back on track by summer, since it's too late already for Spring 2015.  That will give me enough time to tie up whatever loose ends I might have before I become a student again.

If you can imagine walking around feeling like there is a physical hole in your chest for the past few months, then that is an accurate description of how I've felt.  I also felt that this might be a direct result of ageism.  I think that some of that does exist, since most of the students and many of the instructors are young enough to be my children, or old enough to be my contemporaries, but for me to get this done, I'm going to have to put on blinders, and keep my eye on the thing that is most important - helping others who are walking the same road I walked more than five and a half years ago.  I hope I can do it this way.  If not, I'll find another way, and if that doesn't work, I look for yet another way. 

I may go to my grave seeking a profession that will help me help them.  If that happens, at least I will have looked, and tried to do something. Perhaps even as I'm writing this blog entry I'm helping someone in some way I may never know.

Nevertheless, as the romance author Susan Elizabeth Phillips said, as did my late Dad: "Anything worth having is worth fighting for".

 

 

 

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