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So tired of being tired

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I am exhausted. I feel like I’ve been exhausted all summer. As if I haven’t slept well most of the summer. Yes I know the irony – I’m posting this right after a post about insomnia. No I haven’t been suffering from insomnia, I just haven’t been getting enough sleep.

Ever since I injured my hand in early June and started waking up at night because of the pain in my hand or even not sleeping because of the pain I’ve been tired. Then, once my hand slowly started to get better my stomach started acting up. Remember the Crohn’s .. yeah, it’s acting up again too. It really hasn’t been a fun summer. I’m really hoping that Autumn will be much better!

Now that it’s getting cooler outside I think I’m going to make sure I go for a long walk at least once every day. Twice if possible. That will be just one more thing to make me tired and help me sleep. Sounds like a plan. I just have to make time to do that.

Next on the list is maybe starting to take some vitamins again. I was taking vitamins last year and I felt a lot better, perhaps if I take vitamins again I’ll start feeling better again? There’s actually still some maternity vitamins in the cupboard, I guess I should finish them.

Ok, I’ve been taking about being exhausted – maybe I should just go to bed. Goodnight!

Still trying to get back to work

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I’m still waiting to find out if I’m going back to work or not. I’ve been going through the very slow process of returning to work after a long medical leave since January! I can’t believe how long it’s been taking and that I’m still not back to work.

I think that it will only be a little while longer and I’ll be back to work in the hospital. All I want to do is get back to my nursing job. A couple of months ago, when I thought things were progressing much faster I got out all of my old uniforms and cleaned them and got them ready to use. I also started shopping for some new uniforms. I founds some cute baby phat scrub tops that will look great with some scrub pants that I already have, but I haven’t purchased them yet because I’m waiting to find out how much longer it will be before I begin working.

I’m sure most people haven’t been in my situation where they’ve been off work for more than five years due to an illness and then are trying to return to their job, but it just seems to take forever! I have to convince everyone I’m healthy enough to work again.

Lots of things going on today

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I’m having an interesting day … one that I think I’m more than ready to be done with.

My husband finally had a couple of days off in a row so we’re busy doing some much needed renovations on the house. Yes we’re actually doing the renovations – not just talking about getting it done sometime, someday. It’s started. The living room dining room reno will finally be finished – soon. LOL

My poor dog is totally baffled by what’s going on. She’s wondering what all this banging is and why everything smells like spruce wood and saw dust all of a sudden. Not that she minds the smell.

One thing threw me for a bit of a loop today. I finally got the call I’ve been waiting for from the Human Resources department at my workplace. I’ve been waiting to hear from them ever since I had my first appointment with them two weeks ago regarding going back to work. You know, that appointment that ended up with me being interviewed by five people for over an hour! Yikes!

Well, now they want to see me for at least half an hour. I’m not sure what it’s about this time. It could be yet another interview type meeting or maybe they’ve found a place in the hospital for me. I don’t know. All I do know is that it’s nerve wracking each time. I just want to get back to work – get my life back on track again. I’m starting to feel like a yoyo – back and forth, back and forth I go … Hmm but I bet I don’t compare to the best yo yo at yoyoplay. Uh huh.

A while back I thought it would only be a couple of weeks and I’d have my old job back. That was in January or February … here I am after convincing my doctors that I’m healthy enough to go back to work, and convincing the occupational health department at my workplace that I’m healthy enough to return and getting cleared to return to work and I’m still waiting. Hopefully it won’t be much longer.





Back to work or work from home?

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Well I’m still waiting to find when I might be going back to my job at the hospital. Last Monday I had a nerve-racking meeting with the hospitals Human Resources department and now I’m trying my best to be patient as I wait to hear from them regarding where they might place me in the hospital and when I might be going back to work.

Two of the nurses at the meeting were from the hospitals Oncology Nephrology department. I don’t know if they were just part of the assessment team or if they were there because there’s an opening in that department and they are thinking of placing me there. I should have asked but as I said it was a nerve-racking meeting/ interview. It was about an hour and a half long! I’m assuming that I’ll hear something this coming week, but who knows.

At this point I’m getting antsy to get back to work. If something messes up and I end up not going back to my former full time nursing job perhaps I’ll continue to work on the internet. Well I never planned to give it up. However I’ll need to make more money than I make now if that’s the case.

If I were to truly work on the internet full time I’ve even thought of moving. Perhaps somewhere warm or even to the Outer Banks. I recently saw an ad for Outer Banks foreclosures and if I had the money to do it some of those properties sure sound good!

I do think I’ll be going back to nursing but I have toyed with the idea of working on my own and moving to different country. If not now, perhaps later in life. Have you ever thought of working from home in your dream country/city?

Looks like I’m going back to work

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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!

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