Even metros get the blues...
I miss politically incorrect commercials. Well, I miss being politically incorrect in general. ;)
I was reminded of one such commercial the other day when one of my patients with Parkinsonian tremors (for ex: hands/arms etc shaking when reaching for something) was holding out his glass for me to dump in the Metamucil packet.... and I think I got about half of it actually in the glass... at any rate - there was a chocolate milk commercial that ran serial ads on people coming up with inventive ways to shake their milk... I'm pretty sure one of them featured a guy handing his chocolate milk to his old shaky grandpa to shake it up for him. lOLz.
On a less humorous note, my fasting sugars first thing in the am have been in the 140s-160s. That's not even pre-diabetic, that's full blown "go see a doctor" time. Thing is, the sugars drop through the day as I eat and am more active, down to the 100s-120s. Sparing you much drama about having no health insurance and a probable new diabetes diagnosis, basically I'm covered now.
Oya - avoid Maxim Staffing for your temp/nursing/clerical/nurse aide jobs if you can help it, for many many reasons. Bastages took over 2 months to get my direct deposit going, blaming the bank, then telling me "oh - can you give us another voided check?" They also didn't take care of obtaining a parking permit for me until a week or 2 ago, they instead reimbursed me for paying 10-15 bucks a day out of pocket.(I started in July). Also also also, this was the first agency I've worked for that didn't have day 1 insurance/benefits. In addition to not giving benefits day 1(you have to work for them a certain timeframe or # of hours), they neglected to make me aware of my window of opportunity to enroll(which was the during the month of September). The corp benefits dept basically told me that even though it was the local offices' fault, that I was S.O.O.L... Well, after raising much hell, the local office is going to reimburse whatever policy I seek independently. Fortunately, I was able to get on the fiancee's benefits (yay for progressive domestic partner benefits!)
At any rate - one more shift tomorrow, then a well-deserved hiatus from work for 10 days... then back to the grind here at OSU. It's not bad. Hey, at least I can blog from work. ;)
I was reminded of one such commercial the other day when one of my patients with Parkinsonian tremors (for ex: hands/arms etc shaking when reaching for something) was holding out his glass for me to dump in the Metamucil packet.... and I think I got about half of it actually in the glass... at any rate - there was a chocolate milk commercial that ran serial ads on people coming up with inventive ways to shake their milk... I'm pretty sure one of them featured a guy handing his chocolate milk to his old shaky grandpa to shake it up for him. lOLz.
On a less humorous note, my fasting sugars first thing in the am have been in the 140s-160s. That's not even pre-diabetic, that's full blown "go see a doctor" time. Thing is, the sugars drop through the day as I eat and am more active, down to the 100s-120s. Sparing you much drama about having no health insurance and a probable new diabetes diagnosis, basically I'm covered now.
Oya - avoid Maxim Staffing for your temp/nursing/clerical/nurse aide jobs if you can help it, for many many reasons. Bastages took over 2 months to get my direct deposit going, blaming the bank, then telling me "oh - can you give us another voided check?" They also didn't take care of obtaining a parking permit for me until a week or 2 ago, they instead reimbursed me for paying 10-15 bucks a day out of pocket.(I started in July). Also also also, this was the first agency I've worked for that didn't have day 1 insurance/benefits. In addition to not giving benefits day 1(you have to work for them a certain timeframe or # of hours), they neglected to make me aware of my window of opportunity to enroll(which was the during the month of September). The corp benefits dept basically told me that even though it was the local offices' fault, that I was S.O.O.L... Well, after raising much hell, the local office is going to reimburse whatever policy I seek independently. Fortunately, I was able to get on the fiancee's benefits (yay for progressive domestic partner benefits!)
At any rate - one more shift tomorrow, then a well-deserved hiatus from work for 10 days... then back to the grind here at OSU. It's not bad. Hey, at least I can blog from work. ;)