Monday, January 25, 2010
this isn't your average rollercoaster ride ticket
let's try it again, tomorrow another pass has been issued, and it is less restrictive. the advocate gets all due credit for making the phone calls today, and working with the team. all parties involved want to make this work, thankfully. so let's see how it goes.
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You know how it is, sometimes, when things go "wrong," it seems like nothing is ever going to go right? I could be wrong, but the way you've worded your last two posts suggests to me that you're in that frame of mind, just now.
I know it's been ten years, but this team are fresh to the task, and everybody's going blindfold. Look, no matter what goes wrong, as you see it, keep looking up, every now and then, to check your progress. Is Linds improving, in your judgment, and does she seem happy? If "yes," then any minor setbacks on the learning curve are largely irrelevant.
Lindsay will see that people are trying to do stuff for her. I promise you that. Have a good day, tomorrow.
Matt
PS It was Sisyphus. Prometheus was the Titan who stole fire from the gods, and as punishment got his liver eaten every day by an eagle, and then re-grown! Given the choice, I'd go with the rock!
thank you, Matt. my around the world friends (you and Herrad) are up late into the night writing encouraging notes.
AS life exhausts you, think of the mountain you climbed... Cindy
hoping and praying for a better day.
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Stephany wrote:
"thank you, Matt. my around the world friends (you and Herrad) are up late into the night writing encouraging notes."
The small hours are when I tend to watch the DVDs I've sold, preparatory to sending them out! Speaking of mountains, I've ought to go and watch "K2"!
Anyway, learning something new by trial and error is a laborious process, but there is no other way to proceed than slowly, being sure to stop and deconstruct, when something doesn't work, in order to understand what happened, and then change it, so that it does work. The staff, you must remember, appear to believe that mentally ill people cannot be repaired. This is not true, and it's unfortunate that they're in the position of authority, in the sense that you may not say "you're doing it wrong: do this, instead," because they'd soon pull rank on you, even though what they're doing isn't working.
For my part, I don't see that there's anything wrong with Linds, as I've said, before, but I am aware that I have a very flexible notion of what is "normal" (which probably explains why people tend to find some of my beliefs weird, to say the least)! It's only a matter of time before both parties begin to understand how to reach one another - although the distinction between doctor/patient will probably be blurred, by that point, which is to say that Lindsay probably has skills that would benefit WSH.
Matt
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