From worse to bad to better to Pretty Damn Cool!

My skin is a complete mess. NOTHING is helping. I look like I was released from some camp where they keep skin weirdos. I was crying after I showered yesterday, because I hurt and I was itchy and ugly, and nothing was making any difference.

To try and help improve things, we bought two warm mist humidifiers (which are going back, they don't generate enough moisture) and Benadryl and washed our sheets in our old Arm and Hammer detergent, thinking maybe the new method stuff was making me worse.

I know most people who take Benadryl get really really tired. I get the complete opposite effect. I took two benadryl, thinking it would help with the itching, and maybe it wouldn't keep me up that much. Was I wrong. I was even itchier, and I could not stay still. I was awake easily past 2 a.m., feeling like I was going to crawl out of my skin and lose my mind at the same time.

Transition from worse to bad

I get up this morning, and decide I will call for an appointment with a dermatologist. But, I can't go to see the dermatologist until I pay a medical bill that has gone to collections (I just kept putting off paying it, stupid yes).

Transition from bad to better.

So, I realize the universe wants me to get rid of my last bad debt -- something I need to do for us to buy a house, and something I need to do for my own mental health (I hate knowing these small bills were out there). I had been planning on paying it when I get paid in two weeks, but we have the money, it gets it off my credit report, and I can get a dermatology appt. So now, all my bad debt is gone, and everything else is in really good standing.

I call back Dermatology, telling them the debt is cleared, and I can get an appointment for today (unfortunately with the really old doctor I saw last time, but if I didn't see him, I'd have to wait a week to see someone else). So I'm hoping I will find out 1. What is wrong with me. 2. How to make it go away and 3. How to keep this from happening again.

Transition to better to Pretty Damn Cool!

While I was taking care of my dermatology and medical bill stuff, I get a call from a health insurance place. It turns out, it was from their hiring department. I had applied for a freelance writer position with them AGES ago, well before I ever actually started freelancing. They wanted to know my current situation and if I was looking for full time work, because they have a Web content editor position that opened up that looks to be a good fit for my skill set.

Um, holy shit!

So, I have an improntu interview with the HR person, talking about my background, why I left my last place, and talking about my web writing experience. They are looking for someone with five years web writing, but I think I made a good case that while I only have 3 years web writing, I have done a lot of it, know healthcare inside out and more importantly, know how to write healthcare web content for consumers.

I have to apply for the position online, but the HR person seemed to like my answers and my experience. So, we shall see. But to be recruited completely out of the blue, just a few days after I decide that I have to get a regular job again, I would like to say a big Thank you to the Universe. Yes, I'm listening.