My luck could possibly be changing
When I see all of the fantastic news on the transplant recipients receiving good outcomes from their transplants with Soliris, I often imagine what it will be like for me. For me, this is not just an ordinary change, it will be an EXTRAORDINARY change. For 22 years, I have been living on a dialysis machine and counting. Come this February it will be just about 23 years that I celebrate on a machine (not a celebration I look forward to every year). But in a way, it is a celebration, because I have been living longer than many on a machine, now out of options for treatment in the coming years.
The title of this post is "My luck could possibly be changing" because it is! I have been working very hard to find a job in the veterinary field. And just yesterday, I received a call inquiring about a job to be a part time veterinary receptionist PLUS doing part time veterinary technician work. I called, left a message for the appropriate individual to call me back. I called back again this morning and left another message. So, hopefully this afternoon I will be able to speak to the individual to answer the questions they have for me. After leaving the message yesterday, I was having second thoughts about being a receptionist, because that is not what I trained for. But, my mom states to me "you have to start somewhere, right?" And, I said yes I guess so...I guess I have to start somewhere to get the experience I need to move up in the veterinary field. It feels good to be recognized for the qualifications I already have and that I am not being blown off, like I have in the past. I am being recognized that despite the fact that I have not yet worked as an LVT, I can work my way up into that position. I am willing to gain some training, before I am "let off the leash" if you catch my drift hahaha.
On the transplant front: nothing new on that. My donor did get her blood drawn about a week before Thanksgiving and I have yet to hear any result out of that. It's hard towards this time of year, because first comes Thanksgiving and then soon enough Christmas will be around the corner, so it will be proibably after Christmas that I finally hear something I would assume. So, keep on saying those prayers for me and my family, that this time the kidney will work and I will not have to go back on dialysis. My life will not be the same, but it will be SO DIFFERENT.
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Comment by Jessica Olivia Frysz on December 2, 2011 at 11:49pm
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Melissa:
I don't officially have the job yet. I had to interview for it, just like everyone else. From what the phone call sounded like, it almost sounded like I was being handed the job, but that was not the case. I still await to hear some good news HOPEFULLY I did get it.
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Comment by Melissa Hearn on December 2, 2011 at 5:58pm -
Congrats on the new job! That's GREAT news!
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Comment by Cheryl Biermann on November 30, 2011 at 10:57am -
Bravo, Jessica.
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