I'm A GCA Award Winner

GCA Award and other things...

5:47 AM, Monday 19 November 2007 .. Posted by paledaemon

First of all:
You have no idea how touched and honoured I feel! I never think of what I write as anything special these days, but it is the truth, unvarnished and sometimes painful to type, and if it makes someone feel less alone in their own private hell, then I've done something worthwhile.

(How do I pick up my award? I copied the pic above, but is there something else I should do?)

Second: I'm losing my freakin' mind. I posted a comment over here under this post earlier....well, I THOUGHT I posted it, anyhow! LOL My memory has become so spotty....I can't tell what I've done, not done, started to do and never finished.....ARGH! It's the Lupus. When it flares, my mental functioning takes a nose dive. Not having a clue if I finished something I started is the second most frustrating thing about it....Number one is when I find myself staring blankly at something - usually simple - that I KNOW I know how to do, and not having clue one where to start or how to do it. *sigh*

Third: You are a gift to the Universe and everyone you help, have helped, will help. I was legally prohibited for 3 years after I stopped working from assisting anyone who wanted to file for benefits - because I had been a SSA rep. After 3 years, the gov't didn't own me, and I remember a rather terse conversation I had with a branch manager who didn't like it when I came in with someone - a friend of a friend of a friend - to help him file. Some people act like the benefits come out of their personal cofffers. Ugh!

Lastly (for now): I have taken to avoiding the whole family issue. I've learned to tell people, "I have no living family to speak of except my sister (who recently moved back from out of state and is both nearby and loving/supportive). Everyone else is either elderly or gone." It usually stops the inquiries. They assume "gone" means "deceased" when what I mean is "gone from my life, anyhow." Whichever. Amounts to the same thing to me.

Hugs. Mahalo.
(I also think I sent you a private message...if I didn't, I thought I did....let me know.)

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12:57 PM, Sunday 2 December 2007 .. Posted by bitzky

Congratulations Paledeamon! Indeed, that was some heart-breaking story. Can't understand why would anybody do that. Although I have my quarrels with my mother I am trying to help her whenever she needs it. I don't like my conversations with her but it is my duty. I don't always like it (and I feel guilty for it) but nonetheless... You are both inspirations to others! *moomin hugs*

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1:07 AM, Tuesday 11 December 2007 .. Posted by paledaemon

Thanks. Some days are harder than others to deal with ...right now, Herself is feeling VERY abandoned and rejected...it isn't like she didn't already know they treat her like garbage, but she's just now getting to the place where she can let herself grieve.

GCA AWARD

10:22 PM, Wednesday 12 December 2007 .. Posted by Cabinfeveronline

Achairde Wynter:

I am so glad that you are pleased with your award. I don't give them out lightly but your courage, kindness and sweetness of spirit deserved no less. I also wanted all my readers, including those at other sites to know what an incredible woman you are. I have a sister who sufferers the same slurs you and Herself face and it's a mystery to me, that with so little love in this world, why anyone would want to judge someone who found a bit of it! I know that you are also disabled, have a child with a disability and now Herself is having problems. This might sound a bit odd but with all the downs you all face you've got the greatest of goods- love and each other.

Your comment gave so many people the courage and step up and say, "My family treats me the same way. I have been so ashamed for all these years. Then I read your column and that lady's reply and I began to think that it wasn't my fault. I've even begun talking to my doctors about it and they tell me that they see more patients that have been abandoned by their families than are helped by them. Thanks and God Bless to you both!"

You not only helped them- you helped me as well. If you read, The Story of Orville" you know that I was not raised to be that way and neither were my sisters. They would NEVER have tried this on me if Mama had been alive. Much less come into my own home and do it on my birthday (sans cake or gifts). They can't run that fast!

The funny thing is that after all these years NOW they are reading my columns. Not because they are proud of me but because they are looking to see if they are in them and if they are I get these threatening emails about never mentioning them again. Or what? They'll be mean to me? They can't sue me because I was writing in First Person and EVERYTHING I said about them is true. That's the other thing I find amusing, they NEVER say they didn't do it- just don't put it where other people can see it!

I do have some pity, I DIDN'T mention it when my Father went back into the Hospital after being released from his Heart Attack AND NO ONE CALLED ME TO TELL ME HE WAS THERE! He could have died and I wouldn't have been there. Which on the Bastard Scale comes right around deliberately running over small puppies, telling small children there's no Santa or being rude to a Nun!!! The main reason is my Dad doesn't like to see his name in print.

But either way we did good work together. I have spoken to all of my own physicians and they all say the rare thing isn't abandonment- it's having the family help out. (Like Dan's family takes care of me when they can but between Martin's stroke, Grandma's Parkinson's and Dan's 15 year-old nephew just was diagnosed with Bipolar Class 4 Mixed Mania/Mild Schizophrenia their plate is pretty full right now.)

They also read your Comment and they all said the same thing- KEEP IT UP. It's because the patients are ashamed or don't want people to know what is not being done for them that they hide it from everyone including their doctors. This is a problem that needs to see the harsh light of day especially since Social Services are being cut on the State and Federal level."

Amen to that! Before I forget the link to your GCA is:

http://www.efx2blogs.com/uploads/c/C...e/1171.jpg

Slan aghra,
Elaine/cf

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