{"id":1552,"date":"2023-06-08T09:08:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T13:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2023-06-08T11:19:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T15:19:45","slug":"coming-soon-badass-by-jennifer-coffey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/2023\/06\/08\/coming-soon-badass-by-jennifer-coffey\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon “Badass” by Jennifer Coffey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>“I watched the dismantling of my life. My career in medicine was over. I couldn’t even care for myself properly and I couldn’t drive anymore. No one told me not to it was self-imposed. I still don’t drive to this day. If I have a spasm behind the wheel, if my leg moves on its own onto the gas peddle hard? I can’t get behind the wheel knowing that if one neuro symptom happens I could kill someone. I knew better than most. I can’t even begin to quantify the number of accident scenes I either responded to or received in the ER. I can not be so selfish as to drive and end up wishing I never had while I watch someone be loaded into an ambulance because of me.”
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\n“Despite leading a life of crazy twists and turns that had literally put me into the history books. I had served in leadership and vice-chaired the commerce committee. It was normal to see me leaving the state house changing clothes and clocking in at the hospital. There were times I would respond to 911 calls in my hometown or pull a 24-hour pier diem shift with a private ambulance company. I helped to teach new EMTS at a college and acted as the National Legislative Coordinator and member of the board of directors for a national women’s organization. I had so many other unpaid activist positions it could be a real bear trying to keep it all going. I remember we once wrote down all the things I was doing and titles I had and it amounted to a full page. I saw nothing but failure. You know I think back to that now and see the sad person I was then. All that work to try to find love and belonging all the while never realizing the only person I needed to find comfort with was myself.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I watched the dismantling of my life. My career in medicine was over. I couldn’t even care for myself properly and I couldn’t drive anymore. No one told me not to it was self-imposed. I still don’t drive to this day. If I have a spasm behind the wheel, if my leg moves on its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}