Welcome to Julia's Site!

This blog is made available for several reasons. First and foremost, to keep those that know Julia current with what is going on with her and her progress. It is also my intention to educate those who do not know Julia about what happened to her, so they can make educated decisions about their own children. I want to welcome those of you with questions about her disease, treatments, and just the general life (the good and the bad) of living with a brain damaged child. Finally, it is a therapeutic release for me, Julia's mom, Susan. I love writing and need to get some of this stuff out of my head and onto "paper". Thank you!

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Unemployment ROCKS!

Since I quit my job on Nov. 11th, here is what I we have done..........still working on finding another more suitable job for myself, but in the interim, have been trying to "pay it forward"....if kharma is real - we will get paybacks someday..........not to brag, but........it feels so good we have to share.....

1. Shawn and I got one of my future bridesmaids, Wendy and her two kids out of an abusive household, and they are living here in our unfinished basement until she gets on her feet.
2. Shawn found someone willing to sell Wendy his car for $500 (she has no transportation right now) - which I am going to buy for her and she is going to pay me back.
3. I managed to raise the $100K needed for my daughters therapeutic horse back riding facility, SaddleUp!......from ONE person (with the help of my mother and others) - plus the other small donations I got from fellow veterinarians. And I got a job offer for marketing from home with SaddleUp on a part time basis - AT HOME, so it won't interfere with anything I will do with the hospice/euthanasia job when it gets going.
4. I took on a part time job (just until January) cleaning for my other future bridesmaid, Pam, whose Nanny quit with no notice, who is buried in her home - she has her family of five (one brain injured), and another family of five - two adults and three children (one brain injured) living in her house right now - temporarily.
5. Shawn found someone willing to donate a cleaning crew to help clean up Pam's house - DEEP CLEANING - so she won't be so overwhelmed by the clutter and that is there simply because she doesn't have time to deal with it being a single mom to four of her own kids, and housing 5 others. AND the cleaning crew is donating close to $400 for her to get new sheets, towels, pillows, etc.

SO, that's what we have been doing. It feels SO GOOD to help those in need! WE LOVE IT! BUT, it doesn't pay the bills, but that will come...kharma is a GOOD thing!

Susan, Shawn, and Julia

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