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I had an appointment at the hospital today. I was going to see the doctor,
but he was busy, so a couple of nurses just took care of it. They measured
my vitals, and took notes. They also took images to have analyzed by a
radiologist. I’m recuperating about as well as should be expected given the
extent of my injuries. There’s nothing that I should be particularly worried
about. They want to see me again in a few weeks just to be sure my x-rays
continue to follow the healing pattern. While I was still in the
appointment, I got an email back from CauseTogether.hope. They say that the
campaign to raise funds for my bills doesn’t violate any of their policies,
so they’re unable to take it down for me. If I want, I can further appeal
the decision, but I shot off a quick text to my lawyer, who thinks that
probably nothing will come of it. I’m actively advertising my medical
condition to the general public. My only legal argument could have been that
the page interferes with my sense of privacy, but I’ve already let that ship
sail. My therapist told me that my decision to be brutally honest here would
come back to bite me in the ass. Well, not in so many words, she said it.
Anyway, my lawyer said that we could try to take legal action against them,
but I’m still on the other side of a completely different legal battle,
though one which is also about the transparency of my posts. Do I have a
problem? Am I just making my own life worse? Should I be changing every
thing about what I do with my time, and how I do it? No, that’s crazy. This
site saved a kidnapped girl, and gave me a job. I can’t just ignore those
benefits because it has also come with consequences. As they would say back
on my world, the invention of the ship was the invention of the shipwreck.
That doesn’t mean they should never have invented the ship. Where would we be
without them? Isolated, monolithic, or maybe even wiped out.
I did receive some good news, though. A subscriber slid into my DMs with an
idea for a position that could be on my new consulting team for the jail.
They think that we should hire a Reentry Specialist. While our work will
mostly focus on what to do with the guests while they’re staying with us—and
for this first job, for people who only come in intermittently—we would
still benefit from hearing from someone with experience in helping the
formerly incarcerated adapt to life on the outside. And anyway, we’re hoping
that this is more of a pilot program, and less of a one-time thing. We may
branch out to other facilities if we can prove the method effective, or even
inspire others to come up with their own ideas around the country, or
perhaps the world. The subscriber who suggested this job says that she has
experience in this sort of thing, and she would be willing to move here from
Wyoming if we offered it to her. Of course, we’re not there yet. I’m still
doing a little work for my original job at this company, but I’ve written it
down, and we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. Speaking of my current
job, it will probably be over tomorrow. I’m just putting the finishing
touches on the transition, and won’t need to be involved with any of that
stuff for much longer. I think I’m just going to take a few days off of
work, both to continue recovering physically, and to sort of reset my brain.
My new friends for Homes for Humankind want to get together for a meal if
I’m up for it, so I may do that. Their schedule is ever-shifting, but
immovable once it does shift, so it will be better if I’m the flexible one.
Hopefully we can get something on the books before I get back to the grind.
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