[Magdalen] Update on my Friend.

[Jay Weigel]

Travel nursing is a cool way to handle that sort of thing, and if she can
talk the manager into scheduling all her shifts in a row, she could stay up
there between them and only have to do the drive before and after the bunch
of them.I know a lot of travelers who did that. The other great thing about
travel nursing is that you can do your job without having to be involved in
hospital politics, which to me is a HUGE plus. You can tell her I said
congratulations on scoring that gig.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 4:31 PM, M J [Mike] Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> I've been hesitant to so update, because the story can change so
> frequently, but we seem to have hit upon a smooth patch, event-wise.
>
> Grief process / Psychological medical disability:  She was indeed let go
> from her job (first time in her life she didn't leave voluntarily, but a
> necessity in order to guarantee unemployment income if needed), but carried
> on with the State disability claim as directed by her psychiatrist.  The
> results in such a short time are astounding, what with basically the right
> balance of medication and therapy.  The night terrors have vanished, and
> the bad dreams have all but done so as well.  Last night she slept ten
> straight undisturbed hours.  All of which relates to her grief process, the
> working through of which has already brought her a significant measure of
> peace.  And all of which also leads to...
>
> Re-employment:  Just yesterday she accepted a 13-week travel nursing job
> at St Agnes Medical Center in Fresno.  It will be a 2.5-hr drive each way,
> but at only three 12-hr shifts a week, she says she can more than handle it
> for the significant income it will bring in in a very short time.  And as
> this type of working situation is her chosen method of being able to stay
> here in the Salinas area (yay) until something in the future opens up
> permanently (in this area; yay), it makes for a much better chance to be
> able to do what only recently was nearly impossible to conceive of, ie,...
>
> Potential home purchase:  Working with a very nice woman with the mortgage
> firm handling the probate sale of the property, as well as working with her
> late fiancé's oldest daughter and her husband who are the executors of the
> estate, it is extremely possible she might be able to buy her fiancé's
> house where she still lives with her two young daughters via a very
> manageable mortgage.  (Rental income from the second house on the property
> alone will cut her monthly payment nearly if not actually in half.)  And
> anything that keeps her residentially connected to dear auld Salinas has my
> vote of approval!
>
> Us:  Not gonna jinx this one by saying too much, especially as I could be
> totally wrong (I've been wrong oh so many times before), but it does seem
> like a closeness of a relaxed nature (ie, both of us being willing to just
> let what happens happen) is developing.  It seems to have more or less
> begun a couple weeks ago or so when she started talking more consistently
> of staying in this area, and when she one day had lunch with her cousin
> (who knows me) and the subject of Me came up and how "me and Mike talk on
> the phone every day."  "Every day?!"  "Nearly every day since October
> 4th."  And since that conversation, I do believe the "nearly" can be
> dropped from that sentence.  But like I said, I'm really okay with however
> it all pans out in the end, even if it does mean some sadness.  And for me,
> that's progress (and how).
>
> Thanks, Jay, for putting her on the Prayer List.  And thanks, all, for
> praying.
>