Don't despair, Neptune's Grace is upon us...

[magical thyme]

18. the guy that was harassing me at work

is leaving the state at the end of September to go live with one of his sons. It is done.

After the latest chapter -- when a strange man slowly cruised by my house at about 5 mph, staring at me as I walked across my front yard -- I checked with a coworker of his to get a description of his car. It wasn't him, but I told her the whole story and given the hospital cutbacks, I suspect she took it to her boss. He was called into his bosses office and he stopped even staring at me at work, just averting his eyes.

In the meantime, at home in meditation during my 10 days off, I realized I cannot stand to go to that place as long as he is there. All of the abuse that I suffered from my father, molestation by a cousin, by a doctor when I was too sick to protest, extended sexual harassment at work on 4 prior occasions, harassment 24x7 for 3 years by the registered sex offender and his gang of thugs....all of it was stirred up and burned over the last year by this creepy guy's refusal to leave me to learn and do my job in peace.

I won't go so far as to say that I look forward to my job, but the nausea ahead of work is gone.