Ya know sometimes you make a friend that you never really thought would ever be your friend and that is what happened to me. Many years, all in all since 1991, I have battled this disease called RA and all the other diseases I acquired along the way because of RA, and there was always one guy that stuck by my side through the thick and thin of it all.
It seems as though he gave me a hard time and I gave him a hard time then things got really ugly and we were both mad and things were said.....luckily that was several years ago. He was there when I filed for divorce and moved a few times and then when I broke off a relaitonship with a man I was gonna marry but then that guy turned mean and a bit brutal. HE was there, to listen and say he was sorry to hear it.
Then a year ago my daughter was raped and I was devasted and could barely keep my wits about me and I had asked him how a father could turn his cheek on his daughter, again this man sat there acknowledging my pain of RA and my emotional anguish concerning my daughter. I looked my RD in the eye and said, ya know what, someday he will pay for it cause a man should be there to protect his child. He agreed.
Well folks let me tell you karma has a way of working for those who are patient in pain and live a straight and narrow life no matter how boring you may be. And it didn;t even take a lifetime and it was during my lifetime.
Turns out my x hubby quit his job where he was manager and is now working part tiime at a toy store. Yeah, my daughter misses out on the child support but there are laws and attorneys that take care of that mess.....the thing is, he has gone way down the ladder of success.
Sometimes I wonder if I don't have a guardian angel that works overtime for me. Not that I want my daughter to do without, but that now my x realizes, you just do not mess with your kids, you bring them in this world, you take care of them and they remain priority, no matter what.
Just wanted to pay a tribute to my RD. HE gave me hope when I was hopeless. HE told me it will be ok. At the time it meant absolutely not much as I drove all the way home in pain and desperate for an answer concerning "the why" of everything "why me? I never , ever intended my life to be so screwed up.... I was mostly in tears with a broken heart.
This RA is awful, even on the good bone days it can be horrific, and it makes such a difference when you have an RD that genuinely cares.
Many thanks to you sir......HATS OFF..........to the greatest RD ever.
(Now...do you by chance have any samples?????and why is it you can never call me by my name, I am not married anymore......) *smirky grin*
Jode
What a nice doc story. We hear too often about those of us that have had just really bad docs. I am one of the fortunate ones also with a good PCP and a good rheumy.
I wish all of us could have great docs too. It would make this so much easier.
Lucky you!!!! Can you send him my way????