LJ Idol, Week O - Introduction
Mar. 5th, 2014 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dezaYes, I'm really doing this. Again.
A lot has changed for me in the last few years. Since I haven't been very good about keeping my LJ friends up to date, this is as good a time as any to recap what's been going on.
I am a disabled single mom librarian. I have what the docs call Cascading Autoimmune Disorder. The tl;dr version of that is my body hates me. The long version is my immune system randomly registers healthy portions of my body as viruses and tries to destroy them. This has manifested in some interesting interesting ways: skin lesions, arthritis, bamboo spine, and thyroid issues for starters. I spent four years in a wheelchair while being treated. In 2012 I was told I would never walk again. I didn't like that, so I got off the drugs and started forcing myself back into life. I still get seizures that are a side effect of having been on the meds for so long. Fortunately I have a very talented little dog who can tell those seizures are coming.
Tassie at work with me.
While going through all this, my husband decided he didn't want to be married to a gimp. After quite a bit of emotional and verbal abuse and a few affairs on his part, he decided to walk. The divorce was finalized almost a year ago. Being on my own with kids meant that I had to start working again, despite having been out of the field for years due to illness. I took a job as the Programs Librarian in a small rural borough in Pennsylvania.
When the kids and I moved here, we brought along a stray I picked up in Atlanta. Jon has been more or less trying to find work here for the last year. He hasn't been successful. He's moving back to Atlanta at the end of the month.
This leaves me with a big house, a 13 year old son and a 15 year old pregnant daughter. Yes, you read that right. Rowan is pregnant and due in June. I'm not exactly thrilled about becoming a grandmother right now. The babydaddy and his family have been less than cordial about the whole situation -- I reported him to the police this week for keying my car. Again. Still, Rowan is handling the pregnancy well and is making some good decisions based on how she wants her son to grow up. Kyle is less than thrilled about being an uncle. He just wants to play Call of Duty and GTA V and isn't sure how a crying baby in the house will affect him.
Me, I'm just trying to get this all to work out, one way or another. My life has been many things, but boring has never been one of them!
One last Tassie pic, because puppy. :)
LJ Idol entry, Season 9/OMG THE END, Week 0. The topic is "Introduction"> Any questions?
A lot has changed for me in the last few years. Since I haven't been very good about keeping my LJ friends up to date, this is as good a time as any to recap what's been going on.
I am a disabled single mom librarian. I have what the docs call Cascading Autoimmune Disorder. The tl;dr version of that is my body hates me. The long version is my immune system randomly registers healthy portions of my body as viruses and tries to destroy them. This has manifested in some interesting interesting ways: skin lesions, arthritis, bamboo spine, and thyroid issues for starters. I spent four years in a wheelchair while being treated. In 2012 I was told I would never walk again. I didn't like that, so I got off the drugs and started forcing myself back into life. I still get seizures that are a side effect of having been on the meds for so long. Fortunately I have a very talented little dog who can tell those seizures are coming.
Tassie at work with me.
While going through all this, my husband decided he didn't want to be married to a gimp. After quite a bit of emotional and verbal abuse and a few affairs on his part, he decided to walk. The divorce was finalized almost a year ago. Being on my own with kids meant that I had to start working again, despite having been out of the field for years due to illness. I took a job as the Programs Librarian in a small rural borough in Pennsylvania.
When the kids and I moved here, we brought along a stray I picked up in Atlanta. Jon has been more or less trying to find work here for the last year. He hasn't been successful. He's moving back to Atlanta at the end of the month.
This leaves me with a big house, a 13 year old son and a 15 year old pregnant daughter. Yes, you read that right. Rowan is pregnant and due in June. I'm not exactly thrilled about becoming a grandmother right now. The babydaddy and his family have been less than cordial about the whole situation -- I reported him to the police this week for keying my car. Again. Still, Rowan is handling the pregnancy well and is making some good decisions based on how she wants her son to grow up. Kyle is less than thrilled about being an uncle. He just wants to play Call of Duty and GTA V and isn't sure how a crying baby in the house will affect him.
Me, I'm just trying to get this all to work out, one way or another. My life has been many things, but boring has never been one of them!
One last Tassie pic, because puppy. :)
LJ Idol entry, Season 9/OMG THE END, Week 0. The topic is "Introduction"> Any questions?
