Good News-Finally-Kinda

September 18th, 2018 

I got the call I’ve been waiting for around noon today. The Mayo Clinic in Florida finally got the recommendation that my Physician sent! It’s going to be a long road ahead of me, both figuratively and literally. Living in Indiana, Jacksonville, Florida is 13 and a half hours away, and at this point no one can come with me. The catch is that Internal Medicine is booked out to January, so they’re splitting my appointments up. If I’m lucky, Neurology will call me today as well and by some miracle, I can schedule the appointment for them the same day as Hematology. For now though, I have my first Mayo Clinic appointment set for next month-October 23rd. I’m nervous and worried and excited all in one. I’m nervous about having to drive such a long way on my own. I’m worried that either they won’t find out what’s causing my health to tank, or that they will and it’ll be something extremely bad and that I really am going to miss my daughter grow up. However, I have to try to keep my excitement at the top of my feelings list-I’m finally going to see some of the best diagnosticians in the whole country!

I’m not really sure how I’m going to do it. This is going to take a lot of hard work, and hopefully help from my friends and family. A 13 and a half hour drive in a little Grand Prix doesn’t exactly shout Super Cheap Trip. I’m going to have to make sacrifices to cut back my daily living so that I can save the money I’m going to need to make multiple trips to Florida. I have to assume this is going to be a process, so I’m going to have to make multiple car rides. I can’t relocate to Florida indefinitely, not with my daughter living in Indiana with her dad. All I really do know is I have to do this. Not just for me, I don’t care to get better for myself. I need to do what it takes to get where I need to go to get healthy for my daughter. She’s everything to me and I don’t think I would’ve made it this far in my life if not for her. I don’t want her to grow up in a world where I’m not there.

Here’s to Tomorrow…