Blessings for a Happy New Year!

And peace to all of you for a wondrous new year ahead!

2024 New Year Holiday Card created by Tremaine L. Loadholt using an Unsplash.com image

If you have been following me for years or for a few months or a few days, thank you. Thank you for being here; for being a part of this community and for allowing me to share my art, my words, my photography, and my loves. I hope this new year will grant you what you need and bless you endlessly.

It takes a few seconds to wish someone well. It takes a moment more to send a smile or a thoughtful phrase in time of need. I hope you will move toward positive interaction this year as opposed to negative and combative behavior; whatever the situation/cause.

There have been far too many lives lost and senseless deaths these past few years. I want to see more love, less hate. I wish to experience more kindness, and less rude antics/responses (in life & in general), and I want to live more freely with less fear.

I pray you have the strength to tackle whatever may come your way during this new year and you will share some of that strength with others when you know they are feeling weak and are not their usual strong-willed and healthy selves.

2024, walk with us. Guide us accordingly. Fill us with testimonies by which others will be moved and shaped positively. I speak this over me, you, and your family and friends.

Peace and blessings. Happy New Year!

gifts and blessings #2

Photo by Ken Tomita via Pexels

The job I mentioned here, I got it! I interviewed for the Central Scheduling Specialist Entry Level I position this past Wednesday with the department supervisor and nailed it! On Friday, I had a second interview, this time–with the department director and did quite well in it and was offered the job on the spot.

The scheduling position is still within radiology and I will continue to have an opportunity to provide “remarkable care” to our organization’s patients, but from behind the scenes. I will be taking inbound calls from hundreds of patients throughout several markets and scheduling them for the hundreds of thousands of imaging services we provide.

The position is completely remote/work-from-home and as soon as I hear from HR (which should be sometime early next week), I’ll be able to begin my 30-day notice with my current job. I already have my resignation letters drafted up and will provide one to my direct supervisor and the other to our center manager.

When my 30-day notice is complete, I’ll begin rigorous training at the business office for scheduling. The duration will be several weeks. When that’s complete, I’ll be sent home with my equipment and from there on, expected to shine as I have for the last 2 years and 1/2 with this organization and I will.

I feel like I have to slap myself. I cannot believe that in about one month’s time, I will no longer be expected to physically screen or come in contact with patients on a daily basis. Doing what I do puts an incredible fear inside me and every day is a task heavier than the one before.

No more asking patients to put on a mask or imploring that they keep it on. No more coming in contact with patients who tested positive and decided to use one of their quarantine days to come and get some X-rays completed. No more advising doctors’ offices of proper protocol and our company’s COVID-19 algorithm. No more reminding people that we are on a no-visitor-rule and no they cannot have their mama’s sister’s best friend’s aunt with them in the waiting area. The list goes on.

I prayed for this . . . for the chance to feel some semblance of peace and safety once again and my prayers have been answered. I am overwhelmed with excitement and joy and I can only hope this decision will prove itself best for me in the future.

I feel as though it will be.