Ugh the last two weeks have been CRAP!!! But, some good has come of it. I'll share some good, bad, and ugly.
This week, I have learned:
1. Lexapro is a hell of a drug.
2. My body will crash my brain after 7 days of insomnia, and I will hallucinate by day 10.
3. My spouse has the patience of a saint.
4. The kickback of a gun is nowhere near as forceful as it looks.
5. I'm good at shooting!
6. I may or may not have a job right now.
7. I never expected to feel so indifferent regarding my employment status. It feels revealing to me to realize how unattached I feel to it. Maybe my dislike for it has really grown that much.
8. I feel like the Boy Child has suddenly grown more mature and its freaking me out a little. I know he's in the pre-teen zone, but I'm not ready for this. I find myself checking in on him often and smothering him with mama love just to make sure my boy is still my boy. *sigh* This poor child is stuck with me.
9. If you tell them to stop building....
They will.
(I find this hilarious to an inappropriate degree.)
10. The A-Hole Dog only likes the dog park if she's on her leash. She also acts like she feels incredibly violated when another dog sniffs her butt.
11. Go to the following thread. Go to top comments, find on page, type "Robb Stark". Only do this if you are caught up on GOT. Also, only do this if you are not offended by politics, and if you do not plan in any way to come back here and blast me for sharing a comment that compares Trump to Joffrey and Balon Greyjoy.
12. I like my ellipses with 4 dots, just like I like my lights (THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!!!!). Farawyn, we can take this outside if you want....
13. The spouse and I owe so much money in taxes that I can't even. We changed exemptions when we got blasted by state last year. Didn't matter. We owe thousands to federal and the state we live in. As in, we owe thousands to federal and thousands more to state. Can't wait to see how much the state I work in swindled. I swear to the Bearded Commander Riker that we had more money on one crappy income than we have now, with me working, too. Maybe I need to not work during grad school. :\
14. I am so excited for grad school!!!
I know I'm forgetting stuff. Boo! I'll remember right after the edit window closes, I'm sure!
I'll join in on the Lexapro party. I have bipolar 2 & am on a tiny dose of Lexapro along with a mood stabilizer.
This week has not been treating me well. It's starting to look like I may need to leave my husband. He has suddenly become very verbally abusive & I fear for what comes next. I can't go through that again.
I'll join in on the Lexapro party. I have bipolar 2 & am on a tiny dose of Lexapro along with a mood stabilizer.
This week has not been treating me well. It's starting to look like I may need to leave my husband. He has suddenly become very verbally abusive & I fear for what comes next. I can't go through that again.
Thinking of you. I know I can never go through it again. I didn't want to "like" your post but you sure have my support!!!
To Cani re: some sort of cosmic disturbance: I seriously wonder about such phenomena sometimes. Last week was hands down the worst one I've had at work. It was horrible. Not only were my patients crashing, complaining, falling, and coding left and right, staffing was at a critical level. I had a long stretch of shifts and now I have a UTI.
I know from reading on AN that reports of not being able to pee during your shift are fairly common, but it hasn't been the case at my workplace. Usually we have a pretty great culture. By the end of my long stretch last week I was incredibly frustrated and angry. We also have some people who have been out on leave for extended periods (close to a year in some cases) and who have returned. Instead of being a great refresh to our staffing situation, It has thrown an unpleasant interpersonal twist in to the mix - and usually as a whole, we have a solid sense of teamwork on my unit. I hope this is just a temporary state of affairs.
I have a lot of friends on other units and apparently this experience was universal last week; it was like the whole world went sideways and even the normally "happy" specialties were reporting terrible cases/issues. One friend that I went to school with, a really rugged nurse, texted me at shift change and literally broke down in tears of frustration and anger as we sat down to coffee.
I have some classes that are keeping me off the floor for the majority of this week, and I'm incredibly thankful.
Sending out all the positive vibes I can for my friends here who are struggling; I know I said that already but it's sincere. Hang in there. [emoji173]ï¸
1. FAFSA thinks we can give our one kid 60,000 out of pocket hahahahahahaha. I'll
be moving into my cardboard box next week.
2. Experiencing a migraine of stroke proportions at work just lands one in CDU...and that's no fun!
3. I am thankful for pain meds! Bless the person that invented them.
4. No medication should cost anyone $300 a month...that is how a med for my husband could cost us. No wonder I have a migraine.
5. 80's movies are the bomb.
Medication costs are ridiculous. The biologic I take every other week for RA is almost $1,000 per dose! If we didn't have the great insurance we do, there's no way I could pay for that.
Specializes in long term care Alzheimers Patients.
I'll join in on the Lexapro party. I have bipolar 2 & am on a tiny dose of Lexapro along with a mood stabilizer.
This week has not been treating me well. It's starting to look like I may need to leave my husband. He has suddenly become very verbally abusive & I fear for what comes next. I can't go through that again.
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(((Poppy)))