Hi all, I had come and share some news. Some good, some bad. First just a word about our weather. We were down to 28 degrees this morning, if you can believe that. We even had black ice on the road. They have been showing a news story about a worker falling on the ice in the road here in Tampa. The wind chill is down to 12 degrees in spots!
Next news, I had a new job that I started on December 13th. I got a bad case of bronchitis and even though I had a temp of 102 I still went to the training because they said if you missed even one day you would lose the job. I made sure I showed up at least 20 minutes early every day. We had to take a test at the end of the training. Long story short, despite all my efforts to show what a good employee I would be, I failed the test by 6 points so they let me go. No, they won’t let me retake it.
That was last Friday. I went to the doctor while I have insurance until the end of this month for the bronchitis and he couldn’t believe I waited so long to go. He said I am in pretty bad shape and gave me some meds. I had a very bad reaction to the meds, my hands blew up to twice their size, turned red and felt like someone poured gas on them and set them on fire. I had hives in my hair and different places on my body. I had to rush back to the doctor to get a shot for the hives and am now on meds for that but I still have bronchitis and they can’t do anything for it until I get rid of the hives.
The shot helped and at least put the fire out of my hands but I have to take the pills I was given for another six days. I don’t know what is going to happen with the bronchitis in the meantime. I have to go back to the doctor tomorrow (Friday). I may end up in the hospital again.
Now for the good news.
Amongst all this I have so other news of a more joyful kind (at least I hope it will be). I may have found the love of my life. His name is Mark and he wants to come and see me. He knows I’m sick and said he is so worried about me he wants to come make sure I am ok. I told him I may be in the hospital after Friday and he said if he has to sit next to me there, he will.
We met on FaceBook and have texting and calling each other steady for the past couple of months. He seems like a wonderful man. He lives in Georgia but is out the country right now but he plans on flying back to the States this weekend. He wants to fly to Tampa first to meet me. He has already said that since I don’t have a job that might just be a blessing so that maybe I can move to Georgia and start a life there with him.
He wants me to fly to Georgia with him when he gets here (after we meet and if I’m not in the hospital) to get his dog, Rain and his truck and drive back down here so we can be together and plan on if I will go with him back to Georgia or stay here and get a job. He said if it would make me happy, he would consider moving here as well. He will have about a month of time off when he get home from his current job. It would give him time to look at Florida and see what kind of job he could get here.
I have never lived anywhere else in my life but I don’t have any family here. I’m thinking he shouldn’t give his job up to move here, it makes more sense for me to go there if we really click when we meet. Of course we have to meet face to face and such but I wonder if this maybe a chance for me to be happy with someone.
I am a bit of a cougar as he is 54 and I’m 59. He has no kids and his wife passed away about 6 years ago.
I don’t know where this will lead to but I can’t help but hope. I know it’s a bit late in life for this kind of thing but maybe it’s not to late for my fairytale to happen. Wish me luck.
Anyway, that’s all the news from here that I won’t share on FaceBook.
