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Gm writers ✍🏼 My first /words guest prompt: thanks @benroy!

Today's topic: Resilience in hardship. Tell us a time when you navigated difficulty (web3 or general life) and came out stronger.

Format: answer as a quote or comment on this cast 

Deadline: end of day EST

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In 2019, I lost my job at the first bank I worked at.  Before that point, I had been losing weight (I eat like a linebacker so I was kind of confused but I wasn’t that worried) but I knew I was stressed. 

When I lost my job, I didnt know what to do.  I went to the doctor because I knew my insurance was ending ⬇️

Doing the most in between naps.

Dusty Nickels.

Happy Trees. With hugs

I was able to get an interview,  but her boss would not initially sign off on me, due to the circumstances. 

Without realizing it, I had chatted with a friend of the boss, who liked me from
The times we had worked together. Surprisingly, the connection helped me get the job.  

I had given up hope, but a miracle saved

Me.  I was able to get insurance back (because cobra is super expensive for no coverage),  which helped me get towards getting better, and was able to have surgery to take out my thyroid. It helped me change my psychology (your thyroid controls a lot), to finally turn my life around.

So I figure I’d get a check up in. I found out (1 week before my insurance ran out) that I had Graves’ disease.  

Meanwhile,  I was depressed because I had no avenues to turn. I called an old friend of mine, who knew I had been struggling at the previous job.  She just had to fire someone previously.  ⬇️