Re: [TMIC] Hi Stacy

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:14:58 -0700



Stacy,

One of the foster mothers I worked with several years ago started back to school at age fifty-two.  She got her BSW then went straight after her MSW.  Six years later she is the executive director of a rural mental health agency.  I've often heard it said that whether it takes you two or ten years to get what you want. If your lucky, you'll be two or ten years older either way.  Only you will have a degree if you keep plugging. 

Larry in Oklahoma who found his niche in Social Work




Larry Throne, MSW

From: "Stacy Harim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "TM list" <tmic-list@eskimo.com>, "Jill Z" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [TMIC] Hi Stacy
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:00:32 -0400

Don’t speak so quick. I don't know how long it will take for me to get back to it.  I messed myself up pretty bad with my back.  A lot of therapy is still needed.  I'm still trying to figure out how to get to my feet so I can get dressed in a fair amount of time. LOL.
 
stacy
----- Original Message -----
From: Jill Z
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [TMIC] Hi Stacy

Stacy,
I'm still trying to finish my Bachelors Degree and I'm 37!!!!  You guys are lucky!

Stacy Harim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've come to grips.  I also want to get my masters and doctrine.  I feel like I'll be in school forever and if I don't get that far, then that's ok too.  I want to at least get my masters and hopefully teach part time.  With a social work masters, I can bring awareness to students going into the field.
 
Stacy
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [TMIC] Hi Stacy

Stacy -
 
Don't feel bad about graduating when you are 35. I started working on my doctorate at 38 - now I'm 40 and hope to graduate in another year or two. TM hit me the same DAY that I started school - can you believe it?
 
Instead of being in class, or at work, i was in the hospital paralyized from the waist down. Had I not listen to that inner voice, instead of the idiots at work, it would have been full paraylized with loss of blatter instead of have a partial problem with my right leg. Thank God I walked ---- well limped and drug myself off the job and went to the clinic. My boss wrote me up for defiance but they all back tracted when they realized how much trouble they were about to get into.
 
Keep working on your school - slowly but surely you'll have it out of the way!!

Stacy Harim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Jude,
 
I'm pretty OK.  I was trying to give Regina a glimmer of hope.  I believe that any of us that have to deal with the physical/mental after affects of TM or ADEM are brave.  I know I will get out of this bed soon.  I won't be the same as I was before the spinal fusion but I still have my arms and with work, I will be more independent again.  I was going to school for social work so I can help others with disabilities and plan to finish when I can.  I did have a down time in May before I broke my back when everyone was graduating bc I was also supposed to graduate and I still have 2 years left.  I am only 33 but it does get discouraging to think I'll be 35 before I'm finished.  I have a lot of debt to pay off and want to one day own a house and have it paid off before I retire which seems it  might be impossible but in reality I know its not.
 
I think we do learn from each other and without this and that quadlist, I would be lost without knowing what to do. I do more reading here hence the lace of replies but it doesn't mean I don't get anything out of it.
 
Thanks to you all,
Stacy
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 5:28 AM
Subject: Re: [TMIC] Hi Stacy

In a message dated 9/14/2007 4:19:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
Stacy and Regina,
 
Whatever you both do, please stay with us and give us a good  try.  I'm relatively certain that we will help you and I'm sure that in turn, we will learn something from the experience you have gone through.
 
Best of everything to you both,
Jude
 
"Our present troubles are quite small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us an immeasurably great Glory that will last forever"
2 Corinthians 4:17
NLT




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