I keep thinking of Autumn or the month of September these past few days. I’m not sure if that is down to the more Autumnal weather we’ve had in the last week or a state of mind because last Friday was my final day at the day job. Am I seeing myself as somehow suddenly reaching the Autumn of life because I’ve given up the day job, my career, my corporate city chick persona?
Friday was a more emotional day than I expected it to be. For all the upset during my notice period my manager did give me a lovely speech at the presentation. However, as she was talking about the reason I was leaving, it suddenly hit me full force the reason I was leaving my job, my friends and colleagues and my corporate life, in order to care for my parents for the rest of their lives. I felt so sad, sad that this was my role now, end of life care and I cried. I couldn’t speak to my colleagues to thank them as I choked up, some of them also cried, it is a position any of us can find ourselves in. I also felt relief. Relief that the stress and pressure of having to log in everyday, make the journey to the office and back is gone. My day is free to flow with whatever is going on in the home without worrying about deadlines, meetings and reporting.
Last week was also fairly exhausting on the home front. Dad’s knee swelled up due to arthritic joints and he couldn’t put any weight on it at all. Thank God we still had the walking frames from when Mom broke her hip. This though completely put him out of action and meant more running about for me, which I have no problem doing, on the go is good but oh so tiring. Dad being out of action affected Mom. We had two days of partial hunger strike as Dad wasn’t doing their breakfast as usual and on Tuesday night we had a Sundown night; up all night and no sleep until 6:30 am. I get up at 7 am for work; I have no idea how I have worked through these post Sundown work days. I think I’m so used to them I just go into automatic pilot. However, from now on with no day job to worry about, being up all night is not going to be as troublesome as before…I hope!
So between Dad’s knee, Mom’s hunger strikes and sundowns, lack of sleep, work and leaving work, it has been a fairly exhausting and emotional week. Although I leave the corporate city chick behind, I say bring on the carer, domestic goddess and songstress and let’s see the challenges, blessings and positives of the new chapter ahead.
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Indeed there is always tomorrow. What is it they say re gratitude and optimism my special sparkling lady? I know you will bring it on and I admire you so much xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Thank you so much, it’s all a bit daunting, scary and yet exciting too. Huge hugs and sparkles my lovely xxxxxxxxxxxx
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It must be a huge step to take, brae lady. But there you are already looking on the bright side. xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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It took me a very long time to finally make the decision, I wrestled with it but in the end just knew it was the right thing to do. Perhaps I’ll get to follow a few dreams along the path xxxx
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Of course you will. Sometimes it is bloody impossible to believe when you are in the thick of it but everything happens for a reason. Everything. xxxxx
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I totally agree with you, whatever it is, there is always a reason, although you can’t see it at the time and wonder what is going on – in time, it all makes sense. xxxx
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The very best of luck in your new life, and I hope you can get respite and support in your caring role x
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Thank you so much. Being able to just go with the flow everyday without the stress of work has removed more stress than I thought it would x
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