{"id":57,"date":"2017-08-25T04:11:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T09:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journey.jayctheriot.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2017-08-25T04:11:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T09:11:01","slug":"fighting-for-my-own-acceptance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Fighting for My Own Acceptance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had another increase yesterday.\u00a0 We are taking the increases in smaller doses as we approach what we think is our goal.\u00a0 I agree. I feel ok when I&#8217;m not having what I call a spasmodic event.<\/p>\n<p>In a conversation with my neurologist yesterday, he explained, once again that the goal was to minimize the events but not to drug me up so bad that I flop like a fish.\u00a0 The truth is, that the events will never stop.<\/p>\n<p>I did not realize that until I was asked a question about how the visit went. In my explanation, I had a moment of realization.\u00a0 Evidently, I don&#8217;t listen to myself.\u00a0 These will never end.<\/p>\n<p>So, where do we go from here? Those of you that know me better than most of my family should know that I don&#8217;t like being told that something cannot be done.\u00a0 Yet, I&#8217;m having to accept the converse of that.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m setting goals.\u00a0 If I can get well enough that a vehicle ride does not destroy me, then there are some places that I would like to go.\u00a0 I intend to travel. I have amassed friends in every area of the country, either through the military, or through my students leaving the state.<\/p>\n<p>I could do web hosting, I have the equipment and the know-how.\u00a0 However, I am very slow.\u00a0 My operational hours during the day are limited, as is my movement.\u00a0 I, it seems, am less dependable than my equipment.\u00a0 My equipment has a very low failure-rate and it just got lower.\u00a0 I have good toys, and it seems that is only what they ever will be.<\/p>\n<p>I see where I need to identify and accept my limitations and figure out goals that are obtainable for me.<\/p>\n<p>I will say God is carrying me.\u00a0 There is only one set of footprints in the sand.\u00a0 Currently, I can have it no other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had another increase yesterday.\u00a0 We are taking the increases in smaller doses as we approach what we think is our goal.\u00a0 I agree. I feel ok when I&#8217;m not having what I call a spasmodic event. In a conversation with my neurologist yesterday, he explained, once again that the goal was to minimize the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}