check in
Have been regularly checking in just not as often or commenting much. I am reading everyone's posts - mixed bag of things but I'm glad everyone is safe still (I hope. I haven't checked in the last two weeks)
Everything continued as it had been except work really. Another team member put in her two weeks so I've lost two staff - one going back to school and another to a better paying job. My part timer who was full time got moved to a department that has one admin and will for the next few months so fair trade off. The one we did hire has completed her training and is working on her own which is good. We have had some great interviews but keep loosing people to better pay jobs or they don't follow through on the reference checks. We're at a good place but it's definitely been interesting staffing wise.
Good news is we are finally back to four nurses instead of two so once they're trained up and are familiar without workflows I'll have less to do as I've been providing some back up for them (such as processing faxed refills and pending referrals. I can't sign off on anything and it does go through a clinical review but it's all the little steps making life easier.)
My surgery went very easy and so far knock on wood no complications. My migraines have improved and I'm taking less time off for them so yay for that. I did develop some kidney stones which hurt like fuck. Their pain also set off other chronic pain but got through it in less than two weeks. I do have another one though and I have an imaging appointment set up to see where the fuck it is in my kidneys so we can figure out what do with it. If it's in the actual kidney it's gonna live there until I die, but if it's near where the kidney meets my urine out put I'm gonna need to do something before it tries to pass - it's a 6 mm one and a usual stone is 1 to 2 mm or smaller.
I have since been drinking so much more liquid and I hate going to the bathroom this much but hopefully it means no more kidney stones.
House buying continues, but bank approved my loan so we're in the final stretches for that. My application for the down deposit program is being processed and tomorrow we have an appointment to pick colors and all that jazz. I've been looking at all the various bits of furniture we might need since we're gonna have more space and some of my stuff is old enough it should be replaced (mostly I mean my mattress since it's ten years old and idk if mattress technology has come far enough I don't need to replace it but with my chronic pain it's probably better to assume the mattress needs replacing to help me manage the pain best.) I'm thinking of getting a queen size now that I'm gonna have a 12 by 13 room instead of being crammed into subsidy and cheap housing. I have found a lovely iron metal bed frame that has the canopy poles on Amazon (from the same company that made my microwave cart which is holding up) and the bed frame is less than $150 so that is gonna happen once we're moved. (Any of my extra money right now is being held for the last bits of the closing costs and actually moving since I'm gonna hire movers just for loading.)
Otherwise yeah just continuing on.
Everything continued as it had been except work really. Another team member put in her two weeks so I've lost two staff - one going back to school and another to a better paying job. My part timer who was full time got moved to a department that has one admin and will for the next few months so fair trade off. The one we did hire has completed her training and is working on her own which is good. We have had some great interviews but keep loosing people to better pay jobs or they don't follow through on the reference checks. We're at a good place but it's definitely been interesting staffing wise.
Good news is we are finally back to four nurses instead of two so once they're trained up and are familiar without workflows I'll have less to do as I've been providing some back up for them (such as processing faxed refills and pending referrals. I can't sign off on anything and it does go through a clinical review but it's all the little steps making life easier.)
My surgery went very easy and so far knock on wood no complications. My migraines have improved and I'm taking less time off for them so yay for that. I did develop some kidney stones which hurt like fuck. Their pain also set off other chronic pain but got through it in less than two weeks. I do have another one though and I have an imaging appointment set up to see where the fuck it is in my kidneys so we can figure out what do with it. If it's in the actual kidney it's gonna live there until I die, but if it's near where the kidney meets my urine out put I'm gonna need to do something before it tries to pass - it's a 6 mm one and a usual stone is 1 to 2 mm or smaller.
I have since been drinking so much more liquid and I hate going to the bathroom this much but hopefully it means no more kidney stones.
House buying continues, but bank approved my loan so we're in the final stretches for that. My application for the down deposit program is being processed and tomorrow we have an appointment to pick colors and all that jazz. I've been looking at all the various bits of furniture we might need since we're gonna have more space and some of my stuff is old enough it should be replaced (mostly I mean my mattress since it's ten years old and idk if mattress technology has come far enough I don't need to replace it but with my chronic pain it's probably better to assume the mattress needs replacing to help me manage the pain best.) I'm thinking of getting a queen size now that I'm gonna have a 12 by 13 room instead of being crammed into subsidy and cheap housing. I have found a lovely iron metal bed frame that has the canopy poles on Amazon (from the same company that made my microwave cart which is holding up) and the bed frame is less than $150 so that is gonna happen once we're moved. (Any of my extra money right now is being held for the last bits of the closing costs and actually moving since I'm gonna hire movers just for loading.)
Otherwise yeah just continuing on.