You guys will have to learn to get along with out me, because I'm leaving!  :woot:

Well, not really, but I will be here much less.

I'm renewing my nursing license this week in preparation of a back to work program at the end of August. But I'm racing against the clock. I don't currently have enough nursing hours to renew my license for 2009, and I have to  get 368 more nursing hours in before the end of December or I forfeit my nursing license and have to take a year long refresher course.

My contact at the long term disability insurance company just called me. She pulled some strings to get me into some kind of work trial where I'll be doing sit down work recording stats and patient information from clinical trials. It will be in the medical records and I won't have any patient contact, which is fine by me at this point,  LOL, but the important thing is the hours I do work there, while being volunteer hours (my insurance will continue to pay me), the hours will count towards my qualifying hours.

So I'm going to have to find a way to juggle this work trial full time, while doing a back to work program and continuing to get to the gym at least 3 times per week, and if that isn't enough I may have to sign on with a temp agency and pick up some physically lighter shifts on a psych ward, which isn't so bad. If I work the locked unit which is for violent offenders who are deemed insane and not able to stand trial, I get to sit behind a plexiglass window my whole shift and hand out medications!  :blink:

So while I've lived "here" for the last 4 years and have become a fixture, I'll still be around, just not as much.

But I finally see the finish line. It's been a long haul to get to this point with a whole lot of lows and even more lows, and finally hitting rock bottom where I felt I would never get my life back to what it was.  But I'm not a quitter and with the help of a lot of supportive people, and a very understanding and helpful insurance company, things are starting to finally fall into place for me.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi