At the time of the year – drawing to the end of 2017 and I have been reflecting the past years.
I gained a new job in February 2017 since I left Crosslight Trust last December 2016. The new workplace is called Methodist city Action – Hamilton Methodist Social Service and we based in the city of Hamilton. My job role is the same as the previous job and I added my new job roles which are a deaf Advocator for the people/children with disabilities and a deaf Historian/researcher.
My hours of work was 7.5 hours a week until last month, the director of MCA bought me an excellent new, and I am working 15 hours a week. I can work from home and the office in the city.
There have been increasing workloads such as home visiting, doing researching for the clients’ request such as getting a new mobility car/electric-manual shift wheelchair, assisting the client’s garden and many other issues.
Our office is right in the city of Hamilton, and it is handy for anyone to visit me by catching a bus and get off near our office. Of course, there are many cafes close to our office. I did not have to worry about car parking.
From home – I did a lot of video conferencing to some Deaf people which allows me to fit in my own time to work from home. I did a lot of writing blogs and researching on Deaf History which I am currently catching up on one important person – Dorcas Mitchell who was the first hearing teacher of the Deaf children in New Zealand from 1868. Many other researchers have done their researches on Dorcas which I read their materials. The problem was the time frame of Dorcas, and it does not add up correctly, for example, she left New Zealand to Australia and came back to New Zealand. Where does Dorcas lives, taught in which school of the Deaf children, has she married to someone, when and where did she die? I have been gathering pieces of information until my iMac Desktop – the cooling fan shut down due to wear and tear.
Mm, It is time for me to get a new iMac desktop but I do not have a full expense to buy one now. The only options were to get Now Finance or through my bank for a loan. I changed my mind and set up a website – Give a Little so someone can donate to my Deaf History projects and to continue to work from home.
Givealittle – getting a new iMac for my Deaf History project
On my health issue – finally, I got the appointment to visit the MRI on my cervical spine where there is a nerve root damaged. The timing of the appointment is next week, and it is close to Christmas. I have been waiting for these kinds of appointments at the Waikato Hospital for a year. In the first three months from November 2016, the staff sent out the appointment to my previous address, and they do not contact me by texting either. I spoke to my GP, and from there, we found out the problem. Then I waited for another four months to see the specialist and finally saw the specialist. He referred me to have an urgent MRI which the appointment is next week. The next appointment as a follow up is in January 2018, and the specialist hopes to receive the MRI shortly. Some days I am okay to work around the home, to visit and do shopping and work at the office but on other days I found myself very tiring and aching with nasty nerve shooting around the right side of my body. This result forced me to stop doing any activities such as gardening, cooking and preparing, walking the dogs, house cleaning and so on. I do not know the result will bring me a good new or a bad new in January 2018.
In Eureka – we did receive any rain for the last two weeks, and our lawns are showing sign of drought. We can not water the garden due to restricting water in the rural area. Our vegetable gardens are doing well, and I have to be careful by watering every third day instead of second day.
We have plans to do over the holiday leave but first of all the priority is my health. I will have to take easy with the catching up jobs to do around homes such as weeding the garden, painting interior house and DIY.
I hope the year 2018 will bring everyone good news than bad news. Everywhere we see on televisions and social media, its brings violent, sad and terror news and very little good news.
Life in Eureka 