I LITERALLY just came back from getting my right knee x-ray'd and having my laundry list of ailments recorded. I will DEFINITELY DELVE INTO THAT, later. I've had LITTLE SLEEP OVER THE LAST WEEK. Working as many hours as possible to FINALLY earn a paycheck that will ALLOW ME TO PAY BILLS ON TIME! I'm STILL looking for gainful employment and there are a NUMBER OF SCAMJOBS that have attempted to LURE ME TO PHONY JOB INTERVIEWS where they are really all about USELESS SALES AND MARKETING PLOYS.
I got off work last night at 10:30pm and came back and was up by 6am to make my 8am doctor's appointment for x-rays and information regarding Social Security Disability. Something my mother still says I should have filed for way back in 2002 when I was actually doing WAY BETTER financially and was a home owner and was still married to my now ex-wife.
My mind-set back then was just to keep MINDLESSLY WORKING, instead of sitting down and realizing that I only have ONE BODY. And I'd already put it through a bunch of bullshit and been born with some major obstacles that I'd overcome growing up, LIKE?
An UNDERDEVELOPED SPINAL CORD.
NFL player Michael Irvin has something similar, but he DIDN'T KNOW IT. His underdeveloped spinal cord manifested itself as a SHORTENED SPINAL CORD. This is ULTIMATELY what ended up ending his career here in Philadelphia where the doctor's finally NOTICED IT. And he was told that he was literally ONE HIT AWAY FROM HAVING BEEN PARALYZED HIS ENTIRE COLLEGE & NFL AMERICAN FOOTBALL CAREER!
Which is truly amazing that his body held out for so long and it is what allowed HIM to become what he is today, like him or not.
I got back on the subway and headed home. I've got last months rent on my ass and I'll have HALF OF IT by friday. No clue yet how I'm gonna get the rest. I'll figure something out, probably have to borrow money, AGAIN. And get further into debt with friends and family. While I was sitting on the sub I was pissed because if I'd have been getting the hours I am FINALLY GETTING, from DAY-ONE, then I wouldn't have had to borrow anything previously in the first place. I HATE asking people for MONEY. >_< As I was riding I realized that throughout the course of my time with my ex-wife?
I BORROWED a grand total of LESS THAN $800 IN TEN YEARS OF BEING TOGETHER. And I honestly pulled out a pen and my pad and HONESTLY LOOKED BACK AT OUR TIME TOGETHER AND SAID TO MYSELF "I really do hate asking anyone for money." So I'm trying to figure out what I can do regarding coming up with the rest of the rent. And the phone bill is looming again. And that's when I said to myself, I slept like shit. Haven't had a decent nights sleep for a week with all this cramming all these hours into ONE WEEK! So I'd AT LEAST HAVE HALF MY PAST DUE RENT. I'm not thinking straight. Just had most of my ailments fucked with and flared up.
But?
I still have WHAT I HAVE.
And somewhere else out here are people who would KILL to be in the mess I'm in, versus the shit they're saddled with RIGHT NOW AS I'M BITCHIN AND MOANIN. Lemme just SHUT UP. GO HOME, cuz I STILL HAVE AN APARTMENT, a home to go to. I have a job, FOR WHATEVER IT IS WORTH IT'S STILL A JOB. I STILL HAVE MY WEBSITE. MY BLOG. AND!?
Fucked up feet, body, and everything else!?
I can still fuckin walk under my own power.
So?
Lemme stop fuckin complaining and just get home. Probably post this shit to the blog.
Then go the fuck back to bed before I have to be out the door for my shift tonight.
And lemme tell ya something people, that is when I came across this article;
Ex-Olympian reveals she's living in bug-infested trailer, broke and unemployed
Former Olympic figure skater and physician Debi Thomas was the first African-American athlete to win a medal at the Winter Games.
Debi Thomas' life isn't what it used to be.
The former Olympic figure skater and physician made history when she became the first African-American athlete to win a Winter Games medal when she took home the bronze at the 1988 Olympics. She recently revealed she is now broke, unemployed and living in a bed bug-infested trailer.
"(I feel) frustrated," Thomas said in the emotional episode of "Iyanla: Fix My Life" that aired Saturday on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Thomas turned to life coach Iyanla Vanzant after "crippling life challenges" that stemmed from a pair of divorces that financially drained her and forced her to close her medical practice in Virginia. The two-time U.S. national champion is now living in a mobile home in the Appalachian Mountains with her fiancé and his two children. She lost custody of her 13-year-old son.
"Today I meet you in a trailer that’s overcrowded and infested with bed bugs," Vanzant told Thomas in a preview clip. "Are you aware that your life has become unmanageable?"
Thomas started a GoFundMe page in December 2014 with the hopes of raising $10,000, though she managed to collect only $3,763. She additionally laid out a number of prospective projects, one of which included starring in her own reality TV show, to help reach her donation goal.
"This cause has been developed as an emergency fund for Dr. Debi Thomas, her fiancé, Jamie Looney, and their family to restore financial stability after severe sudden financial losses over the past couple of years associated with a combination of financially crippling life challenges," the page read. "This assistance will help cover expenses while they complete their promising projects currently in the works."
Thomas, 48, had earned her medical degree after graduating from Stanford University in 1991 and went on to become an orthopedic surgeon. She claimed her personality clashes led to two lost jobs before she decided to open her own private practice, which she eventually shut down.
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