[tri-family] Re: A new direction...

Dear Penny:
You can get Cobra from your old employer for your medical.  Although  you 
will have to pay for it.  Ask if they can get you the forms for Cobra  so you 
will be covered.
I know because when someone leaves my employ we always offer that.
Marie
 
 
In a message dated 8/30/2008 9:19:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
jknowd@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
Penny  I'm crying right now, but I'm so thrilled for you. ((((BIG HUGS)))

At  12:10 PM 30/08/2008, you wrote:
>Hi Everyone  :o)
>
>
>Wellâ?¦some of you know I got laid off my job of 22  yrs last Friday. It 
>wasnâ??
t
>easy for my boss to do the deedâ?¦and it sure  wasnâ??t easy for me to 
>hearâ?¦but
>
>I understood it although it was  still painful. I spent a day or two feeling
>very sadâ?¦more for what felt  like the loss of a small extended family than
>the job. I had my weepy  moments tooâ?¦and still may I suppose?
>
>
>
>Charleen  had the misfortune of calling me not long after I got home the day
>I  lost my job. I knew I could get unemployment, but I knew it would  mean
>less money (DUH!) and I was worried about the loss of my insurance  that I
>had on Joe and I. The mere thought of going to â??an unemployment  officeâ?? 
held
>ZERO appealâ?¦I had visions of a welfare office kind of  place of 20 years ago,
>:o( You knowâ?¦the stereotypical dump that smells  like one big armpit :o(  I
>was shocked when Charleen told me I  could apply online!!! I hung up from her
>and did just that with the  link she sent me :o)
>
>
>
>OKâ?¦one thing downâ?¦NEXT! I  have also applied for the Go Blue, Cross Blue
>Shield plan that Iâ??ve  been seeing advertised on TV. Hopefully it will be
>adequateâ?¦but I  figure something is better than nothing :o) Iâ??ve been 
>doing 
A
>LOT of  thinking about what to do nowâ?¦after allâ?¦I suddenly have a whole  
bunch
>more time. I downloaded an application for the school boardâ?¦but  that really
>doesnâ??t appeal and Iâ??ve looked in the want ads in the paper  and
>Pennysaverâ?¦but nothing really blows my skirt upâ?¦know what I mean? I  
>donâ??t
>really feel like I want to stay in the printing industryâ?¦and with  everything
>going digital, I feel like thatâ??s a very uncertain future  for meâ?¦and I
>havenâ??t really looked forward to going to work in a long  while now :o( I
>would really love to WANT to go to work again :o)  {{{{sigh}}}}
>
>
>
>Oh wellâ?¦back to putting my ducks  in a rowâ?¦
>
>
>
>I spent a good week taking the time  to do things I donâ??t usually think of
>doing like sitting on our back  porch swing and drinking my morning coffee
>before getting Devon up to  get him dressed for school and ready for Joe to
>give him his breakfast  :o) And then sitting with Devon and waiting for the
>bus to come. Then  off to run errandsâ?¦and for some reason they seem more fun
>and like  thereâ??ve been more of them???
>
>
>
>One of things I  needed to take care of was moving my doctorâ??s appointment so
>I could  get my rxâ??s filled early somehow (and Joeâ??s too) before our  
current
>coverage ended. The Neurontin that Joe and I, both, are on is  something that
>ya just canâ??t go off cold turkeyâ?¦so I was concerned  about it :o(  My
>PAâ?¦Angela came in and just shook her head saying,  â??Penny, I donâ??t even 
>know
>what to sayâ??. Keep in mind that the last 4  times Iâ??ve been in for my 
>follow
>up appointments, I had 4 different  surgeries on Devon to report on and I
>guess she was just worried about  how much I can stand??? Anywayâ?¦I told her
>not to worry about me. Like  Iâ??ve told a couple people this weekâ?¦in light 
>of
>all the stuff thatâ??s  happened with Devon, recentlyâ?¦wellâ?¦losing my job 
>isnâ??
t
>nearly as  devastating as I once thought it would be???? Losing my job kind
>of  pales in comparison with coming alarmingly close to losing Devon. I  just
>need to figure out what I want to do  nowâ?¦
>
>
>
>When I was getting ready to leave and  waiting for Angela to fix mine and
>Joeâ??s scripts so they could be  filled ahead of schedule, I told her I may
>just decide to go in a whole  new direction and made a wave of my arms,
>gesturing to the doctorâ??s  office. She got very excited and said, â??HEY! You
>need to go to Florida  Technical College and train to be an MA (Medical
>Assistant Technician)  like Colleen she said. She was the young lady who came
>in and took my  BP and O2 sats. She said that the courses are not long at all
>and it  would be right up my alley :o) I  thought
>Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmâ?¦and started getting more and  more excited
>about the idea :o) I had more errands to run and actually  toyed with the
>idea of going down there straight away, but decided Iâ??d  beeter go home and
>go the bathroom and eat some lunch first. So I got  home and talked to Joe
>about it and he thought it sounded great for me  too :o) I went online
>briefly and tried to look at some stuff but then  sat down to eat my lunch.
>Imagine my surprise when the phone rang and  it was FTC!!!! The man I spoke
>to suggested I come down this afternoon  at 2 PM. I thought, â??wellâ?¦no time
>like the present right?â??. Sooooâ?¦20  minutes later I was on my way to
>school�45 minutes later I was touring  the school, ½ hour later I was 
>filling
>out an application and getting  my paperwork for financial aid (if I can get
>the FA I need I just have  to figure out how to get around thatâ?¦but the man
>thinks Iâ??ll have no  problem getting grants to pay my wayâ?¦weâ??ll see). By 
>the
>time I left I  had instructions to come an hour before class Tuesday (classes
>start  this next week) to get the FA stuff done, was given my first text  
book
>on Medical Law and Ethics (ohhhhhâ?¦I could have some fun with this  one :o)
>and off I wentâ?¦
>
>
>
>Soâ?¦.if all goes  well, I start school next Tuesday to get my Associates of
>Science  degree and become and Medical Assistant Technician in 11 months :o)
>Iâ??m  very excited actuallyâ?¦can ya tell??
>
>
>
>Iâ??m pooed  right nowâ?¦but Iâ??ll tell you more about it all this weekend 
>ok?  
Say
>prayers this will be the perfect way for me to goâ?¦My gut tells me  it is  :o)
>
>
>
>
>
>Love,
>
>Penny...loving  & devoted wife to Joe, the best husband in the world...mom to
>Nick  (17 yrs old...lover of Fishing, Dragons, Turtles,  WofWC,
>RollerCoasters, Chocolate Icecream w/ Ovaltine sprinkles,  Devon
>(13yrs...lover of Barney, Blue, Nappy ol' Bear w/dreadlocks,  Elmo, & food in
>general. Full trisomy 13 w/balanced translocation 5  and 13) , and Trooper
>the Wonder Dog...our 10? year old yellow lab  adopted from FL Lab Rescue
>12/13/02 :o) Please visit the webpage my  wonderful friend Karen made for me
>on our trisomy listserv  at:
>
>http://www.trisomyonline.org/victor.html
>
>AND...visit  Noah's Never Ending Rainbow  at:
><http://www.noahsneverendingrainbow.org/>  www.noahsneverendingrainbow.org
>
>AND...http://livingwithtrisomy13.org/album9.htm
>
>AND  http://web.coehs.siu.edu/Grants/TRIS/
>
>AND my new slideshow  at:
>
>http://www.onetruemedia.com/shared?p>291611cb644c422ff6bb
><http://www.onetruemedia.com/shared?p>291611cb644c422ff6bb&skin_id@2&utm
>_source=otm&utm_medium=text_url>
>&skin_id@2&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=text_url
>
>"Faith  sees the invisible, believes the incredible & receives  the
>impossible"
>
>
>
>
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Jocelyn, wife to Frank, loving Nanna to Tess with 
Trisomy 18,  age 11 years, and four other beautiful grandchildren,
living in New  South Wales, Australia
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