Roller Coaster

I am feeling exhausted  from all the ups and downs this week. I met with a lot of my clients this week, telling them I am leaving. They all asked where I was going, why I was leaving. Yeah...awkward...No, I'm not leaving for a better job...actually, I'm leaving 'cause they fired me, cuz I suck...Uggggg
But I have to tell you something amazing that happened yesterday. Something good. I have an older friend, Rosa who lives across the country from me. She is the kind of friend I consider family. Anyway, Rosa is convinced I saved her life. A few years ago, when I lived in the same city as her, she was undergoing chemo and radiation. She is also diabetic. The cancer treatment in combination with the diabetes was ravaging her. I honestly wondered if she would live through this. One Saturday, I called her. No answer. I knew, given how terrible she felt physically, that she hadn't gone out anywhere. I called a couple more times over the next hour. Still no answer. Finally, I decided to go to her house and check on her. I got to her house and saw her car was there. I called again from outside and the line was busy. I went in (luckily I had a key to her house) after no response to the doorbell. I walked back to her bedroom and she was unconscious on the floor. I called 911 and they came right away and took her to the hospital. It turns out that she had been in a diabetic coma. So ever since then, Rosa tells everyone I saved her life. Yesterday, I opened my mailbox, and there was a card from her. Rosa is a big one for sending holiday cards, so I assumed it was an Easter card. I opened it, and when I did, a check fell out on to the floor. Rosa occasionally will send me a check for $25 or even $50 at Christmas or on my birthday. I picked it up, thinking I would call her and scold her for sending me money.

Then I looked at the check.

It was not for $25. Or $50.

It was for $5000.00.

That's right. $5000.00. I couldn't breath. I practically hyperventilated, actually. When I was able to pull myself together, I picked up the phone and called her. "What??? What the-???" I sputtered. She laughed at me and said she was happy to do it. "You don't understand," I told her,"I just lost my job!" We talked for a long time, and she explained how she met with her accountant and had "moved some money around" and really wanted to do this for me. The timing of this is just...unbelievable.

My hope is that I will get a new job quickly and I can use Rosa's money to pay off some debt. I don't want to have to  use it to pay rent down the line. But it is such a relief to know the money is there for that purpose if I need it.

So yeah. Roller Coaster.