Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Posted last night earlier because...



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!

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