Piecing it Together!

byCBlakey

433 followers

Updated 6 years ago

Hello Fellow Wealthy Affiliates!

Ok, so before coming here, I had a LOT of ideas in my brain floating around as I dreamed of starting a blog that helps others AND helps me to make money from home.

I'd say about a years worth of dreaming at least. It's something that has been on my heart for quite some time actually.

Only thing was, I was working full time in the medical field.

I was a supervisor where I worked and anybody who knows what it's like to work full time in healthcare, then add to that supervisor responsibilities, knows that translates to at least three to four regular full time jobs, only I was paid for one. Barely. lol

The main reason for this is because of the healthcare crisis. Too many people in need, not enough workers, more demands placed on the workers present, more governmental red tape as more and more laws are put in place supposedly in an effort to create better standards of care for patients. Which some laws actually do, however, I'm absolutely convinced that a lot of the financially motivated laws possibly originate from lawmakers who have never stepped foot into a healthcare facility. ...anyways, I'm going on a tangent.

So, as I was saying, I've dreamt of being in this place.

In fact, last year I attempted to start a blog, but once I got into wordpress, I didn't have a clue as to what I was doing. Yes, I could've googled it, like I'm sure a lot of people who already have successful blogs have already done. But I simply did not have the time to FIND all the content that I needed to learn and understand (which is a LOT).

My first blog attempt didn't even produce a single blog anything. (Although I did manage to throw away money on a hosting site and blogging platform that I never used as I was instantly sucked back into my constantly busy life with work and raising a family.)

However, over the last year, a series of things happened that led me to here.

For one, I suddenly developed a medical issue that needed to be addressed immediately. While I was going through this, I kept putting off getting it taken care of.

I know, healthcare workers are like the most guilty people on the face of the planet for neglecting their own health!

But it wasn't intentional really. I fully intended to take care of what was necessary. But work needed me. People needed me. My family needed me.

You see, we were in a staffing crisis, for like over a year. I was not allowed to be sick. Plus, I was a mom whose family depended on me, I just simply couldn't afford to be sick.

But it wasn't like I wasn't trying to take time off of work to take care of these things, I was. I kept getting turned down though because there was nobody to fill my position. (At least that's what I was told)

So I kept pushing myself forward until I couldn't no more. I kept pushing myself until my body said 'No!'

In the end, I was rushed to the ER, there was no getting around it now...

Matters HAD to be taken care of. The next day I had surgery, and I was out of work for a few weeks recuperating from everything. ...which my employers just loved (notice the sarcasm, but I'm trying to keep a positive slant here, at least give me credit for that! lol)

It didn't end there... but, lets fast-forward to what tipped the scales for me...

Fast forward to January of this year.

One of my daughters was expecting her first child. One day, glowing reports from her OB/GYN with no signs or symptoms of anything horrible going on in her body, three days later, she woke having a grand mal seizure. And no, no history of seizures for her.

With my work background, I knew what it meant for her. I knew it meant she was probably eclamptic, and I knew it was life threatening for her and the baby. I rushed her to the hospital where she continued to have grand mal seizures in the ER. At 35 weeks, her baby had to be delivered immediately to save both the baby and her.

My precious grandson was born at 4lbs and 7oz. A miracle, for you would never know today that he was ever born a preemie! (Thank you Jesus!)

Back to my daughter... usually within 24hours after delivery, the signs and symptoms of the eclampsia resolve on their own. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case for my daughter. She had to be kept in the hospital longer just to get her blood pressures under control.

My daughter, who never had a blood pressure problem in her life was placed on three different blood pressure medications that would've floored a horse! She continued to have issues several weeks after the baby was born in fact. But God is faithful, many people were praying for her, and she made it through!

During her recovering weeks, my daughter not only had to recuperate from having major surgery (as she had to have a c-section), but her body had to heal from the effects of the eclampsia. When we brought her home, she still had swelling on her brain from the hypertension and was still having seizure activity as was reported by her neurologist.

So at home, she needed low stimulation, minimal activity and she needed help recovering from her c-section, and to take care of the baby.

This is where I come in

My daughter now needed me like never before. So we took a financial hit to our family so that I could continue to be with her and help her recover.

Now... in between helping my daughter, I now had tons of time to think about this blog and to think about the really important things that matter in life...

You see, my dream is to help people...

Truly help them, in a much greater capacity than what I was currently doing in healthcare alone... And there was no way I was ever going to realize these dreams if I kept doing what I was doing...

Don't get me wrong, I love helping people in healthcare... but it was missing something... All the red tape and new laws and regulations took critical elements away, things that inspired me to enter healthcare to begin with... like being able to take your time with your patients, speak with them face to face, to show them compassion, to genuinely care for these patients in the holistic way that they need... to be able to give my best at all times...

Instead the healthcare of today has us running from one patient to the next just to meet the new criteria and demands from law makers, just to get all the documentation upon documentation in the way that they now said had to be done...and administration piling more and more responsibilities upon a job that was already practically impossible for one person to do, at least not in a way that would allow people to uphold their moral and ethical principles and responsbilities while honorably giving the best care possible to each and every person coming through those doors...

The thing that *I* had to remember??

My first calling is to God... My second calling is to my family... My third calling is to be a light, an inspiration, and to bring healing in many forms to others... Years ago, I chose healthcare to do that...

However, lawmakers have made healthcare into a business. A money making system. And they turned it into a cut throat world. A world of having to CYB at all times, for legal reasons... An environment that actually took us away from patients, and instead filled it with 'busy work' ...and that is not the type of healthcare that I signed up for.

So, after much contemplation and prayer, I knew I had to make some shifts and changes in my life... shifts and changes that would enable me to move forward with making this dream a reality... to help people in a true sense and to meet them at their need...

So here I am.

(And now, I can proudly say I haveTWO blog entries, an about me page, AND a privacy policy! woohoo!! I'm FINALLY piecing it all together! ...Everybody has got to start somewhere!! :) )

Update 10/7/18

My first blog is coming along though I still have a long ways to go. :) There is sooo much to learn!

Anyways, I have a lot more content than I did when I first wrote this WA blog piece- back then I had only two content peices and an about me page... but now, I have much more content published (6 not including About Me), some not published just yet (4 written and completed, 7 in progress [started but not completed yet])...but still trying to iron out some minor things.

Had some issues with my theme, a theme I just loved... emailed the theme creators with no assistance provided... tried googling and searching here on WA for help, nothing seemed to work... and without getting a response back from the theme creators, I had to think about the loss of blog time with the issues I was having, ( was putting me back a whole three days worth of work!)...so I heartbreakingly decided to switch my theme...

On a positive note, I also love my new theme... still ironing out little details though... (which is why I haven't published 4 written and completed content pieces yet) ...but at least I've been making headway, and there's a light at the end of this tunnel! :)

Also still working through the training, ever so slowly... :)