Well, last Thursday, all the frustration; wishing  hoping; working towards, all came together when I had a meeting with the Local Area Service Manaer of NSW Health, a ward adminstrator, and half a dozen affilliatate staff, so that we could finally reached agreement, and my new Project is starting on Tuesday.

It all started in November, when I  lost my job with as a Welfare Worker.. That was not too bad, My boss had sugested that I look outside the company - not to rely solely on ny current employer for work as a welfare worker, and to perhaps provide a service for patients in psyciatric hospitals.

In January 2009, I had a meeting withthe big wigs of my company, where the outline of my program was structured an much as possible. But the final  decision had to await for Health to come to the party. There have been a couple of  meeting  over a period of time, and two weeks ago, my boss told me he was going the see the Administrator of Mental for Area Health

After tht meeting, my boss told me that we had a meeting with all the big wigs, after which the Program could start. And its is!! - next Tuesday. I am so excited, it scares me.

Since November, my feelings have been that they were stringing me along, not brave enough to tell me my services were no longer required. But lo and behold, it has al come together. One little idea in my head, and it has come to fruition.

Boy, am I excited.

Recently, I have developed a bald spot on the centre/back of my head. It is about two inches in diameter and surrounding that, there is an area of broken off hair.

My doc is no help at all - "it's just stress", and I don't know of it happening before in women. Does anyone have any knowledge of apopecia (thats it's medical name) ? Does it get better? Or does it continue to get bigger. I wasn't too worried about it until last week when someone commented on it, so now I wear hats, surprisingly, some of them don't look too bad!!

If anyone know anything about this, could you please let me know.

Thanks,

grannyjack.

I have a bit of a predicament. My son, whom I love dearly, has to attend court for custody of his two girls next week.

Let me digress: about three and a half years ago, my son and his eldest daughter stayed here. As a result, I promised my daughter he would never be welcome in the house again.

When he and family went to Woolongong for Easter, my daughter was happy for him to call in on his way through.

Now he has to go tho court, five hours from home. My daughter reluctently agreed that he could stay here, but there is the problem of the pssibility of him losing his girls, he may have a major outburst, maybe get violent, maybe( probably) get drunk - he has a drinking problem and uses dope.

The last straw came last night when  my son told me that he was bringing his 13 yo stepson and his baby, three months old. This is not acceptable, and I will tell him this at my earliest opportunity ( it is now 12:43am)

My predicament is this: I love both my children, and I want to support my son, but not at the cost of my daughter's sanity.We had a wonderful time visiting him recently, it was fabulous to see him so well. He drank and did dope while we were there, and my daughter thoroughly enjoyed our visit.

The answers to my predicament as I see them are:

* Tell my son he can't bring anyone else;

* Make some strict ground rules for while he is here;

* Tell him that if he breaks the rules, he will have to find somewhere else to stay;

* After each court day, he will no doubt be upset with the day's procedings, so meet him at the pub to cool off rather     than go home angry and upset.

* Take care of my daughter's needs by not allowing him to go home until he has settled down. 

What do you think?

please help me

grannyjack

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