Some days just suck.
Woke up this morning feeling like a drunk teddy bear, trying to get out of bed after a drinking binge. Sick, queezy, groggy and slightly dissoriented, with a feeling that my head was stuffed with cotton.
My allergies have been in full flare up this week, and my sinuses are way out of wack. In fact, I actually feel worse right now than I did when I stayed home from work on Monday and Tuesday. The only difference is that I'm not blowing chunks.
What made this morning even worse, was that I was so tired (even after 9 and a half hours of sleep) that I was afraid to take a decongestant for fear that I'd fall asleep at my desk at work. Even without taking anything, I nearly fell asleep several times. Thank goodness for energy drings. (yeah right)
Delaney has been having problems with her allergies, this past week, as well. The past couple of days Karen and I have noticed a raspy cough. Sounds like a small dog barking. When putting her to bed, last night, we gave her some children's Delsym and some children's benadryl. Most nights, she gets a half dose of benadryl to help her breathing at night, and to keep her allergies from acting up while she lays down. (poor girl had ended up with her father's allergies. I had to have my tonsils and adenoids out by the time I was 8. I hope she doesn't get that bad.)
Karen decided that Delaney needed to go to the doctor today. Better safe than sorry. We didn't want to risk letting it get into her chest and developing bronchitus or worse. Besides, with insurance, there's no excuse for not seeing the doctor when there's room for doubt. It only costs us a $15 copay.
Well, wouldn't you know it. By the time they got in to see the doctor this morning, Delaney was fine. No fever. No sniffles. No congestion in her chest or sinuses. Just the cough; resulting from nasal drip tickling the back of her throat. The sound, coming from Delaney only giving a shallow cough instead of beathing deep before coughing.
The doctor did recommend that we continue giving Delaney a dose of banadryl each night before bed time, and that we give her a daily children's claritin to help her throughout the day.
Work really sucked today:
We learned that a co-worker of ours had passed away over night. We still don't have details on how she passed away. But being in her early to mid 40's, with two children and a husband left behind, the fact that she has passed away (no matter the cause of death) really sucks.
Later in the afternoon, I also learned that another fellow employee had lost her battle with cancer this morning. I just kept hoping that the usual "things happen in threes" phenomenon would not apply in this case.
Later in the day, I learned that one of my staff members has a very serious fear of heights. I only learned this after I had assigned her a task that required her to go to the 3rd floor mezanine, and climb an 8 foot ladder to retrieve a box off of a shelf. Not only did she have to be helped down from the upper floors, she later had a full blown anxiety attack, and had to be coaxed out of the front women's bathroom so that she could come to the office and calm down.
She is one of my project staff members, and one that I had hoped to move to my regular staff once the project wraps up within the next two or three weeks. For now, there are plenty of other tasks on the project that i can keep her on, that won't require her to get up on the mezanine levels. (You can literally see through the floor grating to the lower levels; the 3rd floor being 25+ feet off of the ground.) But, that will be a problem should she move over to my regular BAU staff. She would be required to retrieve box files off of the 2nd and 3rd floor on a regular basis as a part of her job description.
This employee is one of my star staff members, and one that I have recommended for possible hire as a full time employee once our hiring freeze period is over as of this upcoming January. This new situation puts that possibility in jeopardy. If it really continues to be a problem, I hope that I can recommend her for a position in another work group; otherwise, her temp assignment will end in early October, as the project wraps up.
I could go on and on about other things that sucked at work today. But this is enough. I just needed to vent a bit. So there.
My allergies have been in full flare up this week, and my sinuses are way out of wack. In fact, I actually feel worse right now than I did when I stayed home from work on Monday and Tuesday. The only difference is that I'm not blowing chunks.
What made this morning even worse, was that I was so tired (even after 9 and a half hours of sleep) that I was afraid to take a decongestant for fear that I'd fall asleep at my desk at work. Even without taking anything, I nearly fell asleep several times. Thank goodness for energy drings. (yeah right)
Delaney has been having problems with her allergies, this past week, as well. The past couple of days Karen and I have noticed a raspy cough. Sounds like a small dog barking. When putting her to bed, last night, we gave her some children's Delsym and some children's benadryl. Most nights, she gets a half dose of benadryl to help her breathing at night, and to keep her allergies from acting up while she lays down. (poor girl had ended up with her father's allergies. I had to have my tonsils and adenoids out by the time I was 8. I hope she doesn't get that bad.)
Karen decided that Delaney needed to go to the doctor today. Better safe than sorry. We didn't want to risk letting it get into her chest and developing bronchitus or worse. Besides, with insurance, there's no excuse for not seeing the doctor when there's room for doubt. It only costs us a $15 copay.
Well, wouldn't you know it. By the time they got in to see the doctor this morning, Delaney was fine. No fever. No sniffles. No congestion in her chest or sinuses. Just the cough; resulting from nasal drip tickling the back of her throat. The sound, coming from Delaney only giving a shallow cough instead of beathing deep before coughing.
The doctor did recommend that we continue giving Delaney a dose of banadryl each night before bed time, and that we give her a daily children's claritin to help her throughout the day.
Work really sucked today:
We learned that a co-worker of ours had passed away over night. We still don't have details on how she passed away. But being in her early to mid 40's, with two children and a husband left behind, the fact that she has passed away (no matter the cause of death) really sucks.
Later in the afternoon, I also learned that another fellow employee had lost her battle with cancer this morning. I just kept hoping that the usual "things happen in threes" phenomenon would not apply in this case.
Later in the day, I learned that one of my staff members has a very serious fear of heights. I only learned this after I had assigned her a task that required her to go to the 3rd floor mezanine, and climb an 8 foot ladder to retrieve a box off of a shelf. Not only did she have to be helped down from the upper floors, she later had a full blown anxiety attack, and had to be coaxed out of the front women's bathroom so that she could come to the office and calm down.
She is one of my project staff members, and one that I had hoped to move to my regular staff once the project wraps up within the next two or three weeks. For now, there are plenty of other tasks on the project that i can keep her on, that won't require her to get up on the mezanine levels. (You can literally see through the floor grating to the lower levels; the 3rd floor being 25+ feet off of the ground.) But, that will be a problem should she move over to my regular BAU staff. She would be required to retrieve box files off of the 2nd and 3rd floor on a regular basis as a part of her job description.
This employee is one of my star staff members, and one that I have recommended for possible hire as a full time employee once our hiring freeze period is over as of this upcoming January. This new situation puts that possibility in jeopardy. If it really continues to be a problem, I hope that I can recommend her for a position in another work group; otherwise, her temp assignment will end in early October, as the project wraps up.
I could go on and on about other things that sucked at work today. But this is enough. I just needed to vent a bit. So there.