Several really positive things have happened this week. I refuse to let the fact that my mortgage payment rose $200 today (damn escrow shortage!!!) spoil the positive post I was going to write. With any luck I will win the Mega Millions tonight and it will cap off my run of good fortune (damn mortgage aside).

1) My masseuse referred me to his clinical nutritionist who is a physician who takes on patients with complicated illnesses and assists with developing a targeted whole food diet composed of the proper nutrients and occasional highly bioavailable supplements to reduce symptoms. He has worked on gastric bypass patients and many with fibromyalgia. What I like is that he does extensive bloodwork and looks at it from a functional perspective, not just at the pathology (i.e., a “low normal” iron level is still within the “normal” range pathologically, but you are probably experiencing fatigue and other anemic symptoms so functionally you need iron support). He also feels a call to help ill people so he charges only $40/visit, which is like a co-pay rather than the $200 that most nutritionists charge.

2) My boss sat down with me today and basically offered me a change of duties/promotion of sorts and an assistant. This is all in the works and the details have to be finalized but I’m working on drafting a job posting for an assistant that he said will support my group but who I will directly supervise so that I can shift a lot of my work to him/her and start to travel and work on some really exciting initiatives we have coming up later this year. I am thrilled. I really enjoy the work I do and they have been giving me increasing responsibility over the past year. I will have been there a year in mid-March and I feel very happy with the direction my career is going. Yay. I’m especially pleased that my boss is happy with the work I have been putting in because I have been really trying to give 110% at work. I’m dead when I get home, especially the past few weeks when I was so sick, but I’m trying to really give all I’ve got at work and it looks like it paid off. I work in-house at a large corporation and will be traveling at least within the U.S. and probably to Canada, Latin America and the UK. We do business in over 100 countries worldwide but it’s unclear whether I will be traveling farther afield. I hope so.

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