I started working at the local grocerystore today, well actually I trained yesterday, but today was my first official day of being "on my own". Since getting sick, I have tried quite a few different types of jobs. So far they have all proven to much physically for me. I am not sure yet about this one. I have been really blessed with my different jobs. They have given me a greater appreciation for what goes into many different types of jobs. When I was first diagnosed, I was a teacher. After that I tried to stay home and babysit. Then I worked as an aide at a nursing home. For a while I was a cook at a Chinese restraunt. Now I work at a grocery store. I have done many "small" jobs between, but these were my "main" jobs. I do like working when I can. It makes me feel like I am giving back to my family some, since they have to take care of me so much. I joke with friends that I hurt when I get home, but it is a good hurt (not that good hurting actually exsists) but somehow the pain is more bearable because I know that I actually did something. This is unlike the everyday pain that I get from doing nothing( that is the hard pain to deal with). My kids love that mommy works at the grocery store, they get to come there after school and get a treat. This is the first job since teaching that my kids liked. They want me to get a job at the school (i don't think they understand that I can't do that physically), but it makes me feel good that they would want me at school with them. I know that I won't be able to work forever, but I am just a little hardheaded (my kids have other names for it). But this hard headedness I think is what keeps me going every day.



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