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I started my career in IT by attending The Chubb Institute in 2005. I left my 15 year career in the theater as I was sick of the hours and the diva chorus girls who treated me like shit.

Last fall I landed the most incredible job with a consulting firm found here …unfortunately they had one big client that just went belly-up. Along with that my company cut 20% of the workforce. 5 members of my team alone were layed-off…including me.

It was a shock and I am very sad. But I must keep in mind where one door closes another opens. I have a strange way of always landing on my feet. I just have to keep that in mind and take away the great experience that job was for me.

I miss you guys…

I work as an IT consultant in New York City.  I travel to different clients during the day and meet different kinds of people.  There is one client I go to on a regular basis and at that client a woman who I have great admiration for.  I haven’t seen her in a few weeks as she was in a bad accident.  This woman is inspiring to me.  She is a breast cancer survivor, and in the past few years has lost 100lbs.  She is about 5 foot 2 so I can’t imagine what she looked like with that extra 100lbs.  She has osteoporosis (my grandmother died from complications of that) and short platinum blond hair.  To me she looks like a former Broadway Dancer…even though she was not…but her Mother was a performer.

More on Andrea’s accident.  She was waiting for her dentist and decided to go get a cup of decaf coffee.  She tripped over a raised piece of floor, smashed her face into the ground, passed out, bleed all over, and was taken by ambulance to one of the Manhattan hospitals….that does not take her insurance.   So my poor dear friend, with a smashed orbital bone and the threat of going blind, now has to battle the insurance company to cover those bills.  Her insurance also at first was refusing to cover the surgery to save her eye.  She had broken the orbital bone so her eye had no support…she now has a titanium implant to support her eye, double vision every morning from the swelling, she has to use artificial tears 20 times per day.

She also has to cancel a trip to Italy that she had been planning with two friends for over a year.

I just think it is disgraceful how she is being treated by her “health” insurance company.  I truly hope she wins a million dollars and can rest.