A Few Updates
The realtors did their first open house yesterday so we all vacated the house for the afternoon. I'm told it was well attended and this morning our realtor called to say that two couples that came yesterday wanted to come back this week and see the house again with their own realtors. Robin and Ava, our realtors, seem confident that it will sell quickly and easily since our neighborhood is so popular and there isn't much on the market here at the moment. I hope so, I just want to get this over with and the boys are taken care of now with the needed permits.
Best of all I got a call from Border's Books late last week and they offered me the job! Woo Hoo. The flexibility will be good, the benefits and opportunities for promotion are wonderful. I go for the corporate orientation March 7th followed by a few days of training. It will be so nice to be getting a regular paycheck again instead of the occassional little check in the mail though it still feels a bit odd to think of myself as employed.
Sam begins undergoing another set of tests at UCLA tomorrow. They want a fresh set to compare against the ones from three months ago so that the next time his lungs hemorage (and they will) they can embolize the lung. It's very high risk and could kill him but he is dying by degrees now anyway so he's decided to go for it.
That is if I don't kill him myself first out of sheer frustration. Thankfully he's way to ill to work anymore, even the slightest exertion starts him gasping for breath and he's been having quite a bit of pain. Despite working himself to the brink of death he still will not listen to the doctors. If he wasn't so bad off I know he'd still be dragging himself into the office. As it stands he spends his time watching tv and doing puzzles when he's not sleeping. He doesn't even pretend to take an interest in what's going on with myself or the boys. I really want him to see someone, a psycologist or some kind of therapist but he won't have that either.
But you can't control someone else's actions so I've had to become resigned or I'll go out of my mind. I keep busy so I don't think to much and the boys and I continue counseling once a week which has really helped me cope these past few months and I definately see a big improvement in the boys attitudes and outlook, especially Andrew.
Best of all I got a call from Border's Books late last week and they offered me the job! Woo Hoo. The flexibility will be good, the benefits and opportunities for promotion are wonderful. I go for the corporate orientation March 7th followed by a few days of training. It will be so nice to be getting a regular paycheck again instead of the occassional little check in the mail though it still feels a bit odd to think of myself as employed.
Sam begins undergoing another set of tests at UCLA tomorrow. They want a fresh set to compare against the ones from three months ago so that the next time his lungs hemorage (and they will) they can embolize the lung. It's very high risk and could kill him but he is dying by degrees now anyway so he's decided to go for it.
That is if I don't kill him myself first out of sheer frustration. Thankfully he's way to ill to work anymore, even the slightest exertion starts him gasping for breath and he's been having quite a bit of pain. Despite working himself to the brink of death he still will not listen to the doctors. If he wasn't so bad off I know he'd still be dragging himself into the office. As it stands he spends his time watching tv and doing puzzles when he's not sleeping. He doesn't even pretend to take an interest in what's going on with myself or the boys. I really want him to see someone, a psycologist or some kind of therapist but he won't have that either.
But you can't control someone else's actions so I've had to become resigned or I'll go out of my mind. I keep busy so I don't think to much and the boys and I continue counseling once a week which has really helped me cope these past few months and I definately see a big improvement in the boys attitudes and outlook, especially Andrew.
posted by Booklover at
9:51 PM
2 Comments:
Wieux hieux! Congrats on the new job, Jackie. It's like a kid in a candy store. :D
We wish Sam continual good health.
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Anonymous, at 5:11 AM
I'm in heaven, the employee discount is 33%.
It is going to take a lot of restraint not the spend my whole pay check in the store :)
Jackie
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Booklover, at 11:52 AM
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