Open Door with Sean (and Maureen)

July 27, 2023: Alright today I was insanely depressed most of the day. To start off with, I messed up on my medication. I took it at 8am with two eggs, and then I forgot that I’d taken it, so I took it again at 9am. I called Mayo Clinic about it and they told me that it just meant I could skip my night dosage. So that’s what I’m doing right now. After I made that mistake I had a good talk with Whitney. I was intending on taking a lot of notes during the session, but the only thing I wrote down was that she told me to write down: "I am making new friends." Because frankly I wasn’t sure about that. I talked a lot about how the best years of my life were in high school. Then after the session, I went over to Papa’s house and talked to him some more about that same content. While I was at his house, I succeeded in renewing my license tabs online, and also messaged the 30-something year old named John who also has a TBI who we ran into a few months ago walking dogs. Then I also wrote Dr. Go a message asking whether I’ll ever be able to go off of the cancer drug, since it’s kind of making me unable to eat dinner with friends, which is also a big stoppage point for making new friends. And then I went to Open Door. Tonight Liz and Mikell were both gone, but I did have a great conversation with Sean, the pantry operations manager. Talked to him about issues with dating, and how I was annoyed about the cancer stuff, and being worried I couldn’t make new friends. Funny I even told him that because Liz and Mikell weren’t here, I didn’t even know who I’d take my photo of the day with. Then I did it with him, in front of a world map he had on the wall of his office. Basically I felt like my Spanish was decently useful tonight, and I also told Sean all about the new job I’d just gotten, specifically telling him that my experience at Open Door helped me to get the job.