Getting stopped and getting started again.

byjazzfairy

373 followers

Updated 10 years ago

Getting stopped by life's detours and getting started again can be very challenging. It probably happens to many of us more often than we like. I felt like I was on a roll with WA for awhile. I was going through the courses, getting my website built, putting content on it, getting some good feedback, conversing and getting help from other WA members. It was great. I had been out of work for a month and a half due to what my Ophthalmologist thought was a bad case of viral conjunctivitis/pink eye. (If any of you watched the Winter Olympics and saw Bob Costas, that's what my eyes looked like) But it wound up that I had become allergic to my Glaucoma Drops and the allergy mimicked the conjunctivitis. The good thing was that I was able to concentrate on WA and my site.

However, as soon as I went back to work the beginning of April, Boom! It all came to a Screeching Halt! I teach Massage Therapy at American Career College and had to get back into my routine. Also, the pain in my left leg when standing and walking had increased from the stenosis and disc degeneration, and I started Physical Therapy twice a week and Acupuncture once a week. I also needed to pick up massage work to supplement my income. (Disability didn't pay enough) So needless to say, all my free time, flew right out the window. I got completely stopped in my tracks with my work at WA. The great article my Acupuncturist friend wrote for me is just sitting and waiting for me to post it to my website. I made a small gesture of answering a couple of people following me, but it didn't last long.

So, here I am in the getting started phase again. My life is still very full in many different ways but I seem to have a renewed energy flow drawing me back to WA once again. It all started again with answering new followers. Then I actually went to my website and looked at it. A little time has passed since then and I had been planning to write a blog post for awhile. I found out that I also have 2 bulging discs that are pressing against the nerve in my spine. I'm not working tomorrow due to the Epidural Cortisone shot I received at 7:45 this morning, that I'm praying will work and put a stop to the leg pain for the next 6 months. (Any and all prayers are welcome) I kept hearing to take some time and write, so here I am, after midnight, Getting Started. Again. Looking for it to be long term like this time. It really does take that one step forward and then the next and the next to get the momentum going again.

I look forward to this step moving me forward and getting started in other areas of my life that have been stagnant for awhile. To let go of getting stopped and learn to push through. It feels great to get the words out of my head and onto paper. Well not really paper, but you get my drift. The fire has been stoked and the creative juices have started to flow upstream again. I like this feeling and I hope to be able to stay with it for a long time. Step by step, day by day.