January 23, 2019
Well hey, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and all that fun stuff I’ve spaced on since my last post! I guess I should recap on the last few months to bring you up to speed. We covered mostly all the same things before. Nowadays it’s just trying to take things a day at a time. My memory has been getting slowly worse, I lost my job at the factory in Portland because I couldn’t physically do my job anymore with the memory loss and degenerative muscles in my arms. When I lost my job at the factory, I lost my apartment too, so I had moved in with a mom of someone I went to high school with…and that was an entire disaster. That lady was completely nuts! Always yelling, going through my things, blaming everyone for everything. It was rough. From there on I decided living in my car was best. Packed up all my things into my little Grand Prix and that’s where I stayed. I would drive to a remote spot in the walmart parking lot or somewhere of that nature and get some sleep. I’ve gone through 2 more jobs since the factory life and both of them I’ve lost fairly quickly because of health related issues. I was a bartender(that’s right haha your girl is 21 now) and a waitress at the local Pizza Hut. Mayo Clinic trips were going well until I lost my insurance, so now I cant see anyone. No insurance = no doctors. I’m trying my best to take that as a good thing. If no doctors can tell me what’s wrong with me, maybe I can pretend I’m healthy? I managed to get into the local shelter, and it’s definitely not easy living conditions. Being around so many other people and their kids is trying. I keep getting assigned chores that I either have to wait for someone else to finish theirs or chores that are just naturally difficult for me to do. Some of the staff are really cool though, and we can bring in our own food too so that’s a plus. I started a new job at a gas station nearby the shelter last Monday and it seems to be going well so far, just waiting I guess for them to realise I cant remember half of what they tell me…just a matter of time before they fire me or dock my hours big time. I get my first paycheck on Thursday of this week and I’m actually excited to see how much it is since I managed nearly 5 hours of overtime in my first week! Maybe things will look up, who knows? Until next time I remember to update everyone-
Keep on Fighting..
Brianna's Health Story 