Dear Mr. Ghost host and Master Gracey, how are you doing? I always love seeing your ghoulishly delightful posts on my dash :) I was wondering if you could give me some advice, if that's okay? I don't deal with change well, especially sudden change right after I get used to something. My physical therapist who I've seen maybe twice this week is now being changed to a different person and I don't know how to handle it. I can't emote it, I just don't know. Can you help with advice?
Salutations, m'dear! :D I'm just loverly. Uncle G. H. is...er...
GRAAAAGHHHH! *CLANG! TING! CLING! BASH!*
Having trouble with the third movement of "Moonlight Sonata," it seems... And he's trying to play it with his face. He did so well with the first two parts, he moved onto the third, and... It's not coming along as easily.
WAAHHHH! *SOB!* GIANT...*CLANG!* MASSIVE ....*CLANG!*...FAILURE... *CLANG!*... GHOST HOST!
You know, I think this can tie into your question. Many of us don't cope with change well. For me, it was the ravages of time upon one's own looks. For Uncle G. H., it's the changing level of difficulty in this musical piece...
It'll take me a whole century! Blasted Beethoven...
Depending on what it is we're working with, we have to face the challenge in a particular way. Me? I eventually looked it head on... And suffered a massive heart heart attack and died. Maybe that's not the best example. I was also around seventy years old, so I think that factors into it, too.
Ghost Host is--bless him, he's still plinking away at the keys. You are really giving it your all, aren't you, old man?
Valentine's Gift... for Tess... Can't... disappoint...
In your case, m'dear, I think maybe it would help if you asked yourself what has made you so uncomfortable about this switch in therapists. Is it simply because it's a change? If so, you might find you like this new person every bit as much as the other one, if not more if given the chance. :) But if there is an underlying cause for concern, say, this therapist makes you uncomfortable, (the way you're being touched, spoken to, etc), then there's no reason you shouldn't bring it up with someone you trust at the clinic or someone higher up.
Change can be very scary, or sometimes difficult to comprehend, but it's also a part of afterlife we all have to cope with. Normalcy is very comforting, but we must keep in mind, too, that all things in this universe are in a constant state of change--from the cells in your skin to the leaves on the trees to those rotting in the ground to the burning stars out in space. Embrace it, dance in it. Change is the only constant.
((Word from Myrr-Mun: I know how you feel. When I was in physical therapy in October, I was treated by three different therapists. It just depended on who was there that day. I'm a bizarre contradiction of painfully-shy-hater-of-social-situations, but cannot stand silence when working/being with someone for whatever reason. Enter CAPTAIN CHATTERBOX and her amazing POWERS OF ASININE MILE A MINUTE CONVERSATION! The entire clinic must have thought I was on crack. Hopefully they just assumed I was taking great pain killers. ))
