Tricia's Musings

Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto



You are here: Home / Archives for Culture / Toronto

Looks like I’m going back to work

by

Well I haven’t quite gotten around to giving this site a new look. I know I mentioned that I was going to do that in my last post but I’m still working on some of my other sites and as I do trying to figure out which theme would work best with this site.

I’d still love to hear what kind of look you’d like to see for this blog.

I do have something else that’s been keeping me busy as well. I’ve been trying to get back to work. As long time readers of this blog know I’ve been on medical leave for some time and I wasn’t 100% sure that I even still had a job waiting at the hospital for me, but I thought I did. I certainly never received a letter of termination and I was still receiving tax information every year … so it sure seemed worth checking out.

So … I went to see my doctor and I got her to write a letter saying that I was ready to return to work, then I contacted the occupational health office at my hospital and asked for an appointment. It turned out that I needed to get my doctor to fill out a special form before I could have an appointment with the Occ Health doctor. Of course getting that appointment seemed to mean that my former full time nursing job was/is still in place.

I had my appointment this morning and it went well. I have to get a letter from my internist and then I’ll have another appointment with the Occ health doctor and then .. I should start getting schedule for some shifts in the ER. Yeah!!!! I’ll be on moderated shifts for the first while but that’s a good thing because it will take me a while to catch up on all the changes that have taken place, not to mention remembering how to put in an IV – I haven’t done that for oh 6 years!

I think I’m going to go shopping for a couple of new nursing uniforms tomorrow. Oh and it looks like our washing machine needs to get fixed .. something about the timing pulley or something … I guess I’ll have to look into getting that fixed tomorrow too! Busy busy busy!

Wish me luck on going back to work!

Still cleaning the basement – it will never end!

by

I’m trying to get motivated to do some work downstairs in the basement yet again. Yes it’s time to battle that mess once more. This time my husband is home and he’ll be helping me with the mess. He’s only helped once so far so we’ll see how this goes. He certainly helped in the making of the mess in the basement. I certainly couldn’t have piled all those boxes as high as they are – floor to ceiling! Wow.

I don’t think either of us are feeling much like conquering the basement mess today though. We’re both watching TV – catching up on some Hawaii Five 0 episodes that we have stored on our PVR. I also spent some time talking to an old friend for a while. It’s her grandmothers birthday next week and she was trying to decide what to get her and I suggested that she send chocolate strawberries to grandma as I’m sure she’d love that. Who wouldn’t? She seemed to love that idea.

Ok I guess I’d better see when we’re going to start working in the basement. I should get some extra bags and boxes for all the stuff that needs to be sorted and thrown out. If you don’t hear from me for a while I’m buried in the rubble!

Our friend’s working on a comedy tour

by

I found out something interesting last week … My husband came home from work sometime last week – maybe last Wednesday evening and he’d run into an old friend of ours who used to have his own music studio.

I guess our old friend is taking a break from making his own music an helping others record their own music as well .. .because he’s the sound guy for Seinfeld’s Canadian Comedy Tour that’s going on right now. How about that? That’s something cool to be able to put on your resume isn’t it?

I don’t know what his plans are once the tour ends, perhaps he’ll return to his studio full of recording equipment and numark mixers and computers and I don’t even know what everything else was … it must have cost him a fortune to set up his studio. I can’t imagine him getting rid of it.

Anyway I’m really happy that he got a chance to work with Jerry Seinfeld even though it’s totally different work than anything he’s been doing.

Hopefully returning to work

by

I’m hoping to return to work in the next couple of months. If you are a regular reader of this blog you might remember that I’m an ER nurse and that I’ve been off work on medical leave for oh … 6 years!!!! I’ve been off work because of a bad flare of Crohn’s disease. Believe me if you don’t know what Crohn’s is – you don’t want to know.

I’ve actually been feeling somewhat better over the last few months. Even the migraines that knocked me out a year or so ago seem to be under control so I’m think it’s time to try going back to work. Also .. there’s some personal stuff going on here at my house that makes it kind of important that I try going back. I’ve been gone so long I keep going over in my head how to take blood, put in IV’s and do all of the routine things that I used to do practically with my eyes closed! It will take some time before I’m wheeling medication carts around again.

One of the only problems with my return to work is that my doctor isn’t convinced that I’m ready so I have to convince her that I’m going to be able to do it. I’m also hoping that if I do go back to work that perhaps instead of working four 12 hour shifts in a row that rotate from day shifts to night shifts through that four day period – terrible really – that I can do eight hour shifts that are just day and or evening shifts. No more nights, no more quickly rotating 12 hour shifts. We’ll see what happens I suppose.

Wish me luck – I’ll know if I’m returning to the ER very soon.

So tired this week

by

I’m really tired this week. I’m not sure why. I suppose it’s because I was so busy last week and last weekend what with my cousin passing away and my traveling out of town for her funeral. It all happened so fast. Then when I got home I was very tired on the Sunday and kind of nauseated so I didn’t do anything at all that day.

I was still really tired and out of sorts on Monday too. I think I’m just starting to feel a little more like myself today, but I’m still tired.

Oh well … I’ll live!

In other news I’m working at keeping in touch with family members like I said in a recent post. I was just talking with a cousin of mine in the US. We haven’t talked much in the last few years so we talked for quite a while earlier today. He’s doing ok and his kids are doing well in school, but I guess times are tough there. I guess he’s had a bit of financial trouble and he said something about title loans philadelphia. I think he had to get a title loan on his car? I don’t really understand title loans all that much. I think he’s fixed that situation now though.

It was good talking with my cousin. I’m going to try to keep in touch with him and a few of my other cousins and other relatives more often. If I’m still feeling a little off this week I’ll just relax and make phone calls. At least I’ll be doing something productive.

Meta

Search this site

Tags

blog blogs camera Canada Chris computer crohns dinner dog Family flower flowers Food friends funny garden Gardening Green Thumb Sunday Health and Fitness Health Fitness and Beauty holiday home Home and Lifestyle house husband IBD Inflammatory bowel disease Internet Music neighbors pain photo photos plants puppy Shopping sick sleep spring Toronto TV Video visit website Wordless Wednesday