What might have been a nice normal day turned into sheer hell this afternoon.  My life has been turned upside down (again) by the Mistress of Satan who masquerades around as the head of my home health care agency!   She called to tell me that they were (arbitrarily) making some changes in the people who help me.  Rather than continuing with two people helping me in the morning and another two people at night, she had decided to cut down to one person at morning and another at night.  I would have no problems with this except that each one has already told me that there are certain things I require that they cannot do alone.   When I tried voicing my dislike of this, Satan's Mistress said that if I did not go along with the changes, she would call my doctor.  I told her to go ahead and do whatever she felt was necessary and that I would do the same.  I think that may have surprised her because she seems to be used to getting her way.  She is welcome to threaten me all she wants, but I have already tried contacting someone who I know she is afraid of at my doctor's office.   I discussed the situation with my sister.  She wanted to call my doctor right away, but I said that if anyone was going to call that I should be the one to do it.  I am hoping that I will receive a return call from my doctor's "troubleshooter" before I have to leave to go to my Relapse Prevention Group in about two-and-half hours.  If I am unable to get the call today, then I will call back again tomorrow.  If (for whatever reason) contact is not made this week, I will still have a doctor’s appointment next Friday.  I already have a full agenda of things I want to talk with him about, and most of them are concerning this home health care agency.   Quotes of Attitude:   “I can alter my life by altering the attitude of my mind.” Anonymous