Rajah
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Meant to post this one last night, but I didn't get the chance. But things have done a total 180 from where they were Tuesday morning. Which is good. For the most part anyway.
Yesterday when I got in to work I decided I wasn't answering the phone until after lunch. I really needed to get some time in at work, and phone calls before lunch were part of what left me too upset to stay at work both Mon and Tues mornings. So, don't answer the phone, don't get upset, stay until at least lunch, right?
Yeah. Right.
Since I didn't answer the phone (which didn't ring, by the way) my tech lead came up to chat about my projects (by my request) and ended up passing on a rumor that my manager's manager (which is who we *really* work for, even though on paper we work for my manager -- and I like him) will be moving to a new position and someone else will be taking his slot. Someone else I'm not too fond of. :/ I *really* don't need more upheaval here at work on top of everything else. *sigh*
But, other than that one down, almost everything else from yesterday was good. (I'll be posting the other bad in another thread)
I went by the company nurse yesterday after lunch to tell her thank you for calling my mom. She swept me up really fast to go into her office and chat. Apparently she'd been waiting for me to come see her and was about to give up and call me because she wanted to chat and see how I was doing as well as discuss my mom (without breaking any confidences my mom gave).
So, now we've worked out that the company nurse (who, my mom was right, is a *great* lady) will be calling her periodically to offer support, check on things, and help take some of the "support mom" load off of me. Which is a *huge* help to me. We also discussed some of the company policies about things like this situation and I came out of that feeling a lot better than I did going into the discussion. She alleviated a couple of other worries I had.
She also said she'd called and chewed out the EAP folks big-time after getting my mom's report on how poorly they treated her on the hotline, and when I added my story she was *not* happy and said she'd be giving them another call. Things ended up okay for me after I called them again (as y'all know), but they didn't for my mom and that is totally unacceptable.
She *further* said she'd called the insurance people and talked to them to see what the situation was and told me that there was indeed a chance they'd pay the amount my dad had *previously* been insured for. So cross your fingers and say a few prayers, because my mom *needs* that other insurance.
I did make it by my main dr yesterday at the request of the therapist and we discussed other medications since the one I'm on isn't doing the job any more (it helped earlier, but we had our feet knocked out from under us more than the med was able to help). So she's taken me off the old one and starting tomorrow I try a new one. Cross your fingers and a few prayers please that *this* medicine both works and doesn't leave me with the knock-you-flat headache that Zoloft did to me a few years ago or with the "this isn't safe" strange feeling the Doxepin gave me when we were trying that for the hives. There's also a possibility that my old med is *causing* the hives, so if that's the case then they *may* go away a couple of weeks after I stop taking that old one. Cross your fingers on that, too, please?
When I got home, I got a call from my mom -- she'd just gotten back from talking to the dad lawyer of the father/son practice who is handling our/her case. She said it was a HUGE difference and she has much more faith in this guy than she does in the son. Apparently we were given the son when we originally asked for an appointment because at first this appeared to be a simple "write a few wills and do probate" thing, but since things are growing more complicated, the dad's going to take over everything but the court appearance (which is a week from tomorrow).
He gave her a *lot* of advice (including a lot of things that my DH and I have been trying to get her to do or understand, and most of what came from me originated from y'all) that she's *finally* actually listening to. She sounded so much better last night after talking to this guy -- practically in tears, but this time relief tears. Finally, someone who can give her some direction that makes sense and who can help her and give her some hope.
So things are looking up all the way around. Now if they can just keep *going* up...
Yesterday when I got in to work I decided I wasn't answering the phone until after lunch. I really needed to get some time in at work, and phone calls before lunch were part of what left me too upset to stay at work both Mon and Tues mornings. So, don't answer the phone, don't get upset, stay until at least lunch, right?
Yeah. Right.
Since I didn't answer the phone (which didn't ring, by the way) my tech lead came up to chat about my projects (by my request) and ended up passing on a rumor that my manager's manager (which is who we *really* work for, even though on paper we work for my manager -- and I like him) will be moving to a new position and someone else will be taking his slot. Someone else I'm not too fond of. :/ I *really* don't need more upheaval here at work on top of everything else. *sigh*But, other than that one down, almost everything else from yesterday was good. (I'll be posting the other bad in another thread)
I went by the company nurse yesterday after lunch to tell her thank you for calling my mom. She swept me up really fast to go into her office and chat. Apparently she'd been waiting for me to come see her and was about to give up and call me because she wanted to chat and see how I was doing as well as discuss my mom (without breaking any confidences my mom gave).
So, now we've worked out that the company nurse (who, my mom was right, is a *great* lady) will be calling her periodically to offer support, check on things, and help take some of the "support mom" load off of me. Which is a *huge* help to me. We also discussed some of the company policies about things like this situation and I came out of that feeling a lot better than I did going into the discussion. She alleviated a couple of other worries I had.
She also said she'd called and chewed out the EAP folks big-time after getting my mom's report on how poorly they treated her on the hotline, and when I added my story she was *not* happy and said she'd be giving them another call. Things ended up okay for me after I called them again (as y'all know), but they didn't for my mom and that is totally unacceptable.
She *further* said she'd called the insurance people and talked to them to see what the situation was and told me that there was indeed a chance they'd pay the amount my dad had *previously* been insured for. So cross your fingers and say a few prayers, because my mom *needs* that other insurance.
I did make it by my main dr yesterday at the request of the therapist and we discussed other medications since the one I'm on isn't doing the job any more (it helped earlier, but we had our feet knocked out from under us more than the med was able to help). So she's taken me off the old one and starting tomorrow I try a new one. Cross your fingers and a few prayers please that *this* medicine both works and doesn't leave me with the knock-you-flat headache that Zoloft did to me a few years ago or with the "this isn't safe" strange feeling the Doxepin gave me when we were trying that for the hives. There's also a possibility that my old med is *causing* the hives, so if that's the case then they *may* go away a couple of weeks after I stop taking that old one. Cross your fingers on that, too, please?
When I got home, I got a call from my mom -- she'd just gotten back from talking to the dad lawyer of the father/son practice who is handling our/her case. She said it was a HUGE difference and she has much more faith in this guy than she does in the son. Apparently we were given the son when we originally asked for an appointment because at first this appeared to be a simple "write a few wills and do probate" thing, but since things are growing more complicated, the dad's going to take over everything but the court appearance (which is a week from tomorrow).
He gave her a *lot* of advice (including a lot of things that my DH and I have been trying to get her to do or understand, and most of what came from me originated from y'all) that she's *finally* actually listening to. She sounded so much better last night after talking to this guy -- practically in tears, but this time relief tears. Finally, someone who can give her some direction that makes sense and who can help her and give her some hope.
So things are looking up all the way around. Now if they can just keep *going* up...
