fangirljen

Things have been pretty hectic lately, but I'm dealing and being proactive about it. My mom's health took a turn a week ago Saturday--though according to the pulmonologist this has been building--she developed a high level of CO2 and that in turn caused a nasty bout of pneumonia. For the second time in nine years, I've been in the position of trying to wake my mom up and getting very little response. When she had her heart attack, she was unresponsive, so opening her eyes and saying my name this time was a little better.

( unhappy description of what my mom is going through )

My mom isn't the only one who has been in the hospital. A week before she went in, my dad went in. He came out three days after she went in. He had a really bad infection, but it's gone now. During those three days, two of them I stayed with family friends and one day I stayed home. I didn't like being alone when I didn't know how things were going to turn out for my mom. I really should talk to the pulmonologist again. I get some information from her nurses, but they can only tell me so much.

I've also been dealing with my own health. Before my mom went in, I was getting sinus stuff going on. Stuff that has gone into pneumonia for me before. But I wouldn't stand for that. And I wouldn't stand for not being able to see my parents, so I've been keeping it at bay. I now seem to be on the other end of it. I'm more clear than I was a week ago. I've been combating it with sheer will, Yoga tea, orange juice, V8, and Yoohoo. Lots of vitamins. I think when all is said and done, my parents and I are going to weigh a bit less, too. I know losing weight by sickness is not the best thing, but it's still weight loss. I just have not had much of an appetite lately.

Speaking of food, I'm eating more at home than I had been in the last five months. I don't do much besides sauteing and microwaving things, but now I'm baking things. Baking fishsticks, but at least it's something. :) And I'm preparing food for my dad too because he's doing a lot of sleeping in his recuping.

Before all this health stuff started happening, I was doing some serious investigating in becoming a creative coach. It's like a life coach, but you coach people to be more creative. I have a mentor who is working with me and I am following up on things she told me to do. I'm starting with reading a couple of books. I was aiming to start things in May, but now I'm aiming for a June or July launch. I still have a long ways to go before I get there. I started a twitter account for my work too. I figured it would be a good idea to get my name out now.

I wanted to do some networking at the LA Times Festival of Books, but due to time schedules and me feeling icky, that was not meant to be. I was able to go, however, with brokenbacktango and draugwen. Even with an hour there (literally), it was fun. On Sunday I spent a few hours at the Lemon Festival and was successful in getting what I wanted: hand made lemonade and fresh kettle corn. That stuff is pure joy.

I feel mentally bleh, which is probably from the stress. Despite that, I feel like I am making some crucial changes in my life. Now all I have to do is keep them going when things return to normal in my life.

All yanked from Michael Korda's page on Brainy Quotes.

I have no idea who this man is, but he has some pertinent words of wisdom.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to "make" your luck by being always prepared.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.