Wednesday Roll Call

Good Morning. For those that were off yesterday, its back to work today. But like Nancy said, its hump day. only 2 days left after today until the weekend.

I try to stay positive. Most days it works. I do agree, with it being a full moon tomorrow, more people will be in nasty moods today.

I did fulfill my goal yesterday, 60 grams of protein and  8 glasses of water. I need to maintain that. It is so easy not to get in enough protein or water. I try to drink about 1 glass of water  each hour during the day, but like everyone else, it sometimes doesn't get done.

Connie, your students will be ok. This might be the first death of someone they know in thier age group. We had a classmate die  when we were about 9, but we had a wonderful teacher who was able to explain it in terms we could understand. And remember, there was no help at schools for stuff like that at that time.

I think I will surprize my boss and get in the office a bit earlier today. I am always early, but if I leave now, I might get there before her .

Hugs

Good Morning my IL family
Well I never made it for my mammogram yesterday because I had no way to get Tyler home from wrestling practice, so I rescheduled my appt for Dec 8th.   I started to feel icky yesterday evening and went to bed with a sore throat..today it's horrible and I think I have a full blown cold now.  First time since surgery.  Not sure what I can take though so I am sticking with Tylenol based products. 
Tonight we have an awards night for Tyler and football so other than that, nothing going on but resting and  hoping to feel better by Saturday so i can still make it to the support group.

Connie, I am so sorry to hear about the student who passed away.  That is very hard to deal with.  I lost a good friend my Jr year in high school to suicide and that was bad enough.  I will keep everyone in my prayers.
Crystal, I am glad that you are okay and didn't hurt yourself. Isn't it good to be able to laugh at ourselves when we do stuff like that?  lol

Good morning Nancy and the rest of Illinois!

I am happy that it is Wednesday.  I already had my first strange phone call of the day, so I guess things are going as expected.

I try to stay positive, but sometimes..........

I feel for all of you that are getting this cold.  I fought very hard last week and it did not get me down, but I used hand sanitizer (after EVERY blow), extra vitamin C, Zicam spray, Airborne and nasal flushes 3-4 times per day.  By Friday afternoon, I had to take some cold medicine and a co-worker gave me Advil Sinus.  It worked great.  I know that we are not to have NSAIDS though, so when I went to the pharmacy, I got Claritin-D, which had been recommended to me by my doctor for a previous head cold.  Also, if the congestion gets into your chest, the Mucinex D works well too.

I am going to start working on an older computer to see if I can get it working to maybe give my kids for Christmas.  I get tired of them using mine and messing it up.  Wish me luck!

Not much else going on here.

Have a splendid day!

Good afternoon,

I have been reading everday but not feeling much like posting. 

My weight loss is at a stall, and I am disgusted with it all.  I dont feel like eating, and then when I do, I dont eat much and then try to get the water in, and still dont lose any weight.  We were away last weekend and we swam, walked and were busy all weekend, I hardly ate anything except my 3 meals and healthy snacks and still no loss.  I am very discouraged with it all.  Plus I am not feeling all that well, have been itching alot, and very tired.  I am wondering if it is due to the malnutrition stuff.  I dont have an apt til Dec with Dr. Wallace.  Im not sure when they do blood work for the first time after surgery, and if I am deficient in anything already.  Maybe it is just me, and nothing to do with the surgery.

This weekend is the ABMC support group so I will be going to hopefully get some advice and support there.  I dont know what to do anymore.  I have alot of stress here with my son, this is a bad time of the yr for him and his bipolar disorder, he seems to be off the wall from Halloween til after Christmas every yr.  It must be his "cycle" and that is when he is at his most difficult behavior wise.  Tomorrow is parent teacher conferences so we will see what they say.  I hope there is good news.  That also means he is off Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sun.  Oh my.  I have to keep him busy or there are alot of issues. 

Im not sure if we can make the get together, as we have tickets for the Radio City Rockets that day, it depends on what time the party is at.  I have not seen a time posted or I missed it.

I would love to see you all, so depending on the time, we may or may not be there.

I hope everyone has a good day.