I realize this probably is off-range for posts on here, but I need some advice...
I'm a 24 year old elementary school nurse. I've been happily married for over 5 years, and I have a 22 month old daughter. She in herself is stressful enough sometimes (haha). I was recently diagnosed with POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome). I'm on blood pressure medication 3x daily and a blood thinner 1x daily. My medicine controls my problem fairly well, most of the time.
In addition to the toddler and the new diagnosis, I teach three after school classes a week, I'm Yearbook editor at the elementary school, I'm chairperson of the Safety Committee, and I cover the high school across the street as needed. I do all the drug testing for the athletes and suspicions at the high school and middle school. I teach a class for 3-5 graders at my church every Wednesday night, and if you look at my planner in my purse, you'll see that I don't have a completely free weekend until the second weekend of January 2011.
So I thought I had enough stress in my life...apparently not. My husband and I are going to be renting a house from a teacher here at the school and she's moving out on the 14th...of NOVEMBER. She wants us to start moving in on the 15th....WHAT?! That gives me LESS than two weeks to get everything together and ready to go. I've decided I'm going to go ahead and pay my current landlord this month's rent so that we can keep our stuff in our current house until Dec 15th. I will take our necessities to the new house on Nov 15th and we will start living there and sort and move stuff out of the old house bit by bit until Dec 15th.
Add to this the fact that Thanksgiving, my daughter's 2nd birthday, and Christmas are coming up, and I feel like a basketcase!
This is also a bad time of the year for me because Nov 12 is my youngest son's birthday (he died at 11 weeks of age, almost three years ago) and Dec 7th is my oldest son's birthday (he was stillborn at 23 weeks almost four years ago.) It's a very hard time of the year anyways, and life is chaotic!
What's your best way to deal with unavoidable stress?? Any "secrets" you can share with me? haha!!
I guess I posted all this here because people always seem to think that school nursing is a "gravy train" job and there's no stress, but you all would understand perfectly the stress I feel at work and adding that to my personal life stresses, maybe you have some advice? Anyone going through a similar situation?
Just for clarification--I'm not suicidal or anything like that! No depression or anxiety. Well, maybe some anxiety, but just the normal stress type...I don't plan on hurting myself or anyone else. No where near anything severe like that.
You are a Mom first and foremost....my only advice is one word. This one word gets me through stress, grief, anggravation, heartache and even happiness. BREATHE.
Take one breath at a time. be a Mom, celebrate your new home, ALL your children's birthday's and breathe. It will all go on with each breath.:heartbeat:redbeathe:)
Specializes in Med Office, Home Health, School Nurse.
You are a Mom first and foremost....my only advice is one word. This one word gets me through stress, grief, anggravation, heartache and even happiness. BREATHE.
Take one breath at a time. be a Mom, celebrate your new home, ALL your children's birthday's and breathe. It will all go on with each breath.:heartbeat:redbeathe:)
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You are a Mom first and foremost....my only advice is one word. This one word gets me through stress, grief, anggravation, heartache and even happiness. BREATHE.
Take one breath at a time. be a Mom, celebrate your new home, ALL your children's birthday's and breathe. It will all go on with each breath.:heartbeat:redbeathe:)