After college I went to work for a twice-weekly paper in South Carolina, which was a formative experience that I was happy to leave nine months later. I got two cats out of it and a love for police scanners. I took a job as a reporter near home in the mountains of North Carolina on Sept. 23, 2003. I rose from reporter to special sections editor for all our contract publications. When our company acquired a nationally-distributed slick-glossy magazine, I became assistant editor and then managing editor in 2010. (And yes there was time spent teaching and being a licensing test proctor in there too...) Since then I've reshaped the magazine, grown its content and overall vision, and — as the years went by and my advocacy work took off, I even had opportunities to involve some of my health contacts in writing pieces for it.
However, my passions changed the more involved I became in advocacy. I saw a greater ability to make a more immediate impact by connecting with patients, providers and industry leaders. Advocacy work made all my personal illness make sense. Illness was a strange gift of burden that gave me unique knowledge and experiences. To communicate about illness was a challenge with deep personal impacts. I was afforded opportunities to grow in this regard and turn my knowledge and experiences into solutions for the healthcare community at large. And I suppose one could say that I fell in love with doing, with getting elbow deep instead of being an objective observer.
Thus I found myself in the position of being all in — with the caveat that I was not yet all out of my job as an editor. For much of 2014, I juggled as many serving plates as for a dinner party of 108. We began planning to revamp the magazine to feature more web content, ad sales experienced an uptick, writers came and went (sometimes not by their choice), and the culture of innovation I loved so much in my advocacy work influenced me to keep editorial offerings fresh. By summer, I was named Coordinator of ePatient Programs for Stanford's Medicine X and learned just how little sleep I really needed as the conference crept closer and collided with press deadlines. I've always worked well under pressure, but this time the pressure also had a way of crystalizing my priorities.
I was supposed to spend the week after MedX connecting with nature. Instead I was gnashing my teeth. Out in the wilds of Yosemite, I only occasionally received a cell signal, which was sufficient for texting at best. Online access could be had only late at night or early in the morning. In the dark hours with my phone held just so, spotty 3G connected me to all those also suffering the #MedXHangover, their blog posts, their continuing conversations. And I felt so very left out and alone.
Then an email arrived from my publisher. We needed to talk about deadlines. Or at least he needed to talk about deadlines. I did not. I needed to deconstruct, discuss and disseminate every detail of my thoughts about patient engagement, clinical trials, online communities, mental health, self disclosure, relationship building, innovation, collaboration — everything that fostered in me the inspiration to continue advocating for change. And thus the decision was made. I replied to my publisher that I no longer was the right person for the job.
We traded emails for two days, and I did not tell my husband — who works for the same company — about any of it. The last night of our trip, we were well into working our way through a water-front bar's microbrew list when he demanded answers.
Him: "Is my kitty okay?"
Me: "What?"
Him: "Is my kitty okay?"
Me: "Your kidney?"
Him: "Is Nelson alive?"
Him: "Is Nelson alive?"
Me: "WHAT?"
Him: "Is my cat Nelson still alive?"
Me: "Um... yes? What? Why do you think Nelson is not alive?"
Him: "You've been kind of dodgy for a couple of days. Is Nelson dead and you haven't told me?"
Me: (brow furrowed) "What kind of person do you think I am? Geez. YES. Your kitty is FINE. I've just been thinking about making a major career change."
Him: "Oh. Okay."
That night he was happy and supportive. In the morning, when he had sobered up, he was terrified.
That night he was happy and supportive. In the morning, when he had sobered up, he was terrified.
Me: "I knew I shouldn't have told you until I had a plan!"
Him: (consternated) "What IS your plan?"
Me: "Give me a few days."
Him: (incoherent grumbling)
It took another week for things to truly begin to come together. I lined up enough contract work to cover the basics. A side project offered the promise of a business plan. A start-up company scheduled a meeting. And my publisher and I went out to lunch. Four days before my 11-year anniversary with the company, I negotiated my exit strategy.
I will remain at the magazine's helm for one more edition, assist in hiring a replacement, train said replacement during 2015's first edition and then transition to a contributing editor role. The arrangement frees me to do what I do best and enjoy most — writing, contributing to the creative vision, editing and developing web and social media content — while eliminating managerial duties, thus giving me more time and flexibility to be an advocate and independent consultant. Already I am committed to speaking in Philadelphia and Australia and consulting locally, in Philly, California and Washington, D.C. by April. I also will pursue opportunities for a writer's residency with the intent of working on that book so many have been prodding me to do.
This pivot, this new plan for the future would not be feasible without years of encouragement and support from friends, family and mentors — though really those categories greatly overlap one another. I thank all of those who have been part of my journey thus far, and I do sincerely hope that they will continue along with me as I hack a new path. Yet I caution — the only following each person must do is to follow the course his or her heart knows to be true.
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