We were supposed to go out to
a MS support group meeting at a local restaurant last night.
The woman in-charge, ‘the
leader’ of the group was quite vague originally when I tried to get information
from her; she wouldn’t even give me her last name.
She said that occasionally
the restaurant comps the group for dinner, but not always. When asked about
what would be going on at the meeting she said that they have speakers in the
fields having to do with Multiple Sclerosis. I thought logical, since we did
that with our arthritis group too that I was co-president of, sort of a leader,
nah more than; since I was an elected official.
And so before I started
dinner I was wondering if at six thirty they would be serving us dinner at this
place and so I called the leader, but no one answered and I felt it was too
close to dinner to leave her just a message, it was better if I spoke directly
to ‘the leader’ of the group and so when I didn’t get an answer on the second
try I began making our dinner. Apparently, her caller I.D. worked and so just
when we were finishing ‘our’ dinner at home, the call came in.
She was there already, an
hour before the meeting was to begin, since she is ‘the leader’ of the group
and had to set it up? It’s a restaurant and they should set up for people, our
venues did! Any-who, she said to us that we should put our dinners in the frig
and come on over. I said we were already done and I said we will come over at
six thirty for the meeting and I also asked who the speaker was, she hesitated
and then apparently asked someone else, this leader, she came back on and said
a doctor. I said in what field, she said a neuro, and I asked oh, who and where
from? I waited as she asked the other person; I take it the non-leader knew
more being better informed for some reason! The doctor is from Tampa. All I thought was not someone we could
go to here, darn. The topic was also not forthcoming and didn’t seem to be
known by either the leader or her personal information officer.
Oops, I forgot to tell Hubby
while he was out that the toilet in my bathroom’s tank chain broke and in order
for me to flush it I had to stick my hand in the tank and pull the plunging
mechanism upward… not good and it needed to be rectified! I called back the
number I was originally given for contact for ‘the leader’, and informed her that
we had a plumbing issue that needed to be attended to and that we will have to
remedy it, and that we will try to come to next month’s meeting, but thanks and
all this was on her voice mail…whew! The toilet issue was totally a truism, but
Hubby fixed it quite fast, and I do believe that I have just admitted to my
first white lie in a very, very long time! Oh well, I suppose the rest will be
easier, hmm?
Moving on…
Organization is something I
like to pride myself on, and that alone is probably why I was impatient with
this woman, who thought of herself as, ‘the leader’.
You see, Hubby and I were
going to go for the commonality of understanding we thought it might provide,
my arthritis group had done that… we were dissuaded a bit by another person
with MS at the rehab that we go to, she had tried the group and felt it was
more of pity party than a positive upbeat exchanging ideas sort of gang.
But she admitted she had not
been in quite some time, and she recognized the woman’s name as the same, the
leader. I said well I thought that Hubby would be able to commiserate with
other caregivers and that was my main reasoning why we should go or my personal
resolve to try to go anyway.
Odd how these things work out.
I hope that her words didn’t
shade my actual feelings in the back of my wee mind, subliminal, perhaps they
did?
Oh well, I did say we would
try next month… still open, I guess.
On those notes of trying to
be involved again, but not having it work out…yet, allow me to be the very
first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count
all your blessings and share those overages with you know who and we will too!
And next time please be here
or be square, ya hear!