9-27 - I had to take myself off the healthy list. I have a lot going on in my life right now. To top matters off, one of my brothers lives in Pensacola. He sent me an email saying that they had boarded up all their windows and were waiting it out. They didn't get any evacuation orders. He is also on-call because he works for the power company and has to be ready to go out and put power lines back up as soon as it is safe to do so. My dad is worried about them, and that isn't helping his situation any. I told him that as long as Al can send email, that means everything is all right. My back is still giving me a fit. I have lived on the heating pad all week and it is starting to feel some better. I hope I don't have to take sick leave from my job so soon. Keep the faith ;)
9-21 - I survived my first day in my new job. I woke up with a sore back this morning and it is really killing me now. I have to help lift kids and change their diapers in my new job. I also had to take some of them and get them ready for hydrotherapy in the tank. This means I have to lift them in and out of their wheelchair and put their swim suits on, put them in a stroller and take them to the tank and do the reverse of all that when they are done their therapy. It isn't that the kids are that heavy, it is just the bending that got to me. I sure hope this doesn't last long. I must have slept funny last night because I was fine when I went to bed. Needless to say, I walk was out today because it just hurts too dang much. Keep the faith ;)
9-19 - I am having a hard time keeping this up on a daily basis. Spent the last two days training the woman who will be taking over my job at the school. There is so much to learn, we didn't even get through half of it. At least I am still in the same building so they can call me when they need help. I have one more day of cafeteria duty. I have to "train" the two women who will be taking my place in there. What's to train? Just tell them to hand out napkins, straws, ketchup, forks and spoons when the kids need them; open milk cartons and other things that the kids can't get open; and keep an eye on the time and dismiss the classes when it is time for them to leave. Nobody trained me, they just told me I had two hours cafeteria duty every day.
One the weight loss front, things aren't going so well. I haven't gained any weight in the last two weeks, but I haven't lost any either. Of course, I haven't been exercising like I should. I have a heel spur on my left foot and after the constant walking around on the hard cafeteria floor, my heel just hurts too dang much to come home and put in my 3 miles. Hopefully that will improve with this job switch. Keep the faith ;)
9-15 - I'm back. Got the patch off my eye this morning and can work on the computer without straining my left eye too badly. I went up to the board office this morning and filled in paperwork for my new job. I start Monday. I will be working with a Level V multi-handicapped classroom. I have been doing pretty good with my eating, but exercise hasn't been so good. We are going out on the boat this afternoon, so I will get some swimming in today. According to the dr's scales I have gained two pounds, but I am wearing shorts I couldn't wear in July. Even the dr commented on it and said not to worry about the scales as it was probably muscle gain. My blood pressure was down six points on the bottom number, so he was real happy about that. Keep the faith ;)
9-11 - Sorry I haven't been real regular with this updating. After being at the computer all day at work, I just don't feel like sitting down to the one at home. I will be changing jobs next Thursday. I will be moving from a general assistant in the media center to an instructional assistant in a multi-handicapped room. This means I will now have benefits and get paid for holidays. There are only 6 kids in the class, but 5 of them are in wheelchairs, all wear diapers, 5 must be fed and one is tube fed. This is a lot of work, and for the most part you get no response from the children. I long-termed subbed in this classroom before with a different batch of kids. It is a very demanding job and I hope I can handle it.
On the life style front, I have been doing okay with my eating. I haven't weighed myself, but I am wearing a pair of shorts that I couldn't wear about 6 weeks ago. According to the dr's scales when I had my physical last week, I had gained 6 pounds; but he said he could tell I was thinner and didn't really say anything to me about it. I have been trying to walk when I get frustrated and feel that I will need that walk after work when I start this new job. It is frustrating to work all day and get no feedback from the students. The best thing is that I will no longer have cafeteria duty.
My son (the one I had in the emergency room all Sunday night) went to our family dr on Tuesday. He gave him more pepcid and said that at his age it was probably just an acid reflux problem. He goes back in a couple of weeks and if that hasn't helped, then he will send him for further tests. I was in ER myself this evening. I got something in my eye and couldn't get it out. I have four scratches on my cornea. My eye is all swollen and hurts like heck. They gave me drops to put in it, but so far they haven't helped the pain. Keep the faith ;)
9-7 - My daughter is 14 today. She is growing into quite a beautiful person. Had a long night. Had to take the oldest to the ER last night. We were there til 6:00 this morning. They think he may have an ulcer. They did blood and urine tests and x-rays. Everything was negative and they told me to take him to his family doctor. He may want to do an upper GI series to find out what is going on. As bad as that is, I sure hope it isn't anything more serious. Will keep you posted. Keep the faith ;)
9-6 - First, let me warn you, this entry is kind of a rant; so if you don't want to hear it, just back out now. This has been a real crappy weekend. I have got a killer cold. There was a discussion on the diet list about the movie Titanic. I mentioned that I had bought it for my daughter for her 14th birthday. You would not believe the amount of mail I got telling me how bad it was for her to watch that movie because of the scene in the car. I didn't even bother to answer it. My daughter is not so immature that she is going to run out and have sex with the first guy that comes down the pike just because she saw Leonardo DiCaprio do it in a movie. We have had discussions about this and she does realizes the consequences of such actions. I sure don't feel that letting her watch that movie is a bad move on my part. Some of the people implied that I am a bad mother. I feel that if a movie had that much influence on my child, I would not be doing my job as a parent. Oh well, enough of that.
I haven't been eating much because I haven't been feeling really well. I did have some homemade chicken rice soup last night. That kinda loosened things up in my head. One more day to get this cold whipped into shape before going back to work. Keep the faith ;)
9-3 - Sorry about yesterday, got really busy last night. Tonight I feel terrible. I am running a fever and coughing my lungs out. I think it is from down at work. The air conditioning is so high in the media center that I need to wear a sweater to keep warm. Then I got to the cafeteria for 2 hours and it is not air conditioned. I get so hot running around there opening thermoses for kids and handing out napkins, forks, spoons and ketchup that the sweat is running down my back. Then it is back to the media center for another 2 1/2 hours freezing to death. I guess it is starting to take it's toll on me and it is only the 4th day of school. Only one more day and then a three day weekend. Guess that's all for now. Sorry this was just a complaining entry. Will try to be more up tomorrow. Keep the faith ;)
9-1 - Another month. My daughter survived her first day in high school and my youngest son his first day in middle school. I am having a hard time getting back into the routine of a school day again. Getting up early and fixing lunches is a real pain. Peanut butter and jelly (which the two oldest eat) just doesn't hold up well when you fix it the night ahead of time. My husband says to make them fix their own lunches, but the kitchen is too small to have that many people milling around in there fixing lunches at the same time. Things are hectic enough as it is without that. I guess I just have to get used to it as there are 178 days left in the school year. Keep the faith ;)
