Have you ever met a someone that is completely unique? The kind of person that people might say walks to they’re own drum beat? I have met a few over the years, but no one as unique as my present supervisor. She has many beliefs and actions that has placed her in a class of her own when it comes to my experiences. I do not dislike her, but I have never met anyone with her qualities before.
She practices holistic health. She constantly talks about the alternative measures that she takes to deal with her high blood pressure. She has appointments with an alternative medicine healer several times a month, yet her blood pressure remains out of control. She won’t take medications that are usually prescribed for high blood pressure because her healer has told her that the side effects are bad for her. I am not against alternative medicine, but I do think it is important to be safe in how you approach things. I fear that she is going to have a stroke if she does not get her pressure lowered. She is always dealing with water retention as well as headaches, which are signs that her blood pressure is affecting her bodily functions.
As well as her beliefs in alternative medicine she also believes in reincarnation. She thinks she is living her life as well as the life of a 7 year old pioneer child. She goes into great detail about when the child inside her reacts to the different situations that are happening. She has a complicated way of talking in the first place and then when she starts talking about an alter ego and pioneer days most people shake their heads and walk away from her. Whenever her name comes up in a conversation, people will comment on how very different she is. Since she is the director of our program this is not a positive response.
When I first started working for her she was out sick for many days. She would need to take extra time to get ready in the mornings because her high blood pressure would cause her to lose sleep at night. This left me alone to run a program that I knew little about. She would tell me That I could make decisions, yet she would often change what I had done when she would come into the office. If have adjusted to the way I deal with her, and still find some of her beliefs interesting. However I fear for her health. I am expecting a call some morning from one of her family members telling me she has had a stroke. It is sometime difficult not to tell her what to do, however considering I am her junior I feel like I need to keep my mouth shut and do my work.
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