And now for some good news!
1) As long as they don't find anything wrong in my Pulmonary exam and the colonoscopy (which it really doesn't look like they will), I should have all my work done by the 26th of this month.
2) Lee met with the Transplant surgeon and the coordinator today, and he doesn't have to lose any weight, which means they're going to set up his physical. Since he's amazingly healthy, I don't see any problems with that.
3) Barring complications, we can do the surgery around the end of February or the beginning of March, depending on the surgery schedule.
January was chock full of appointments. I scheduled it that way to get everything over with. I'm glad now that I'm done with most of the stuff I needed to take care of, but it was also horribly stressful. Especially when they kept on adding more procedures.
This month I've got three doctor's appointments and three dentist visits. That's it! But, since I need to have dialysis three days a week, and try to work full time, that's enough. I need to slow down a bit. Trying to cram all this stuff in is just making me crazy.
But I'm just so sick of having this tube in my chest I could scream. Not to mention that if I don't get the surgery done soon, they'll put a permanent shunt in my arm. And I hate the one I already have.
Okay, stop that. This is not a bitchy post.
All better? Okay, good.
I am so damn goal-oriented. gunthar says that all the time about me, and I can definitely see that he's right this time. I need to slow down or I'll just make myself sick.
I've started thinking about what I want to do after the transplant. I can tell I'm feeling better; I'm getting bored.
(I know I'll be out of work after the surgery for at least four weeks. I know I won't be doing much more than lounging around, reading, and watching movies for quite a while, and I know I won't feel like doing anything. I'm talking about after that.)
I'm thinking about what I need to do to actually finish my Master's degree, and what kind of job I'd want to get with it. My Master's is in Technical Communication, and I don't actually think I can use it where I am now, unless I take over someday as Safety Coordinator. I could do it, but do I actually want to?
To get my degree, I would need to do my primary research, some of which I could do at my company, and learn a language. I'm going to have to look into night classes. But, two computer programming classes would actually be accepted for the language requirement! How cool is that? (Plus, it would actually complement my degree!)
I already have my secondary research completed, although I'd have to check to make sure other studies haven't been done in the last year (my field is Plain Language as Applied to Safety Documentation, specifically, Material Safety Data Sheets), but no one has really touched the field yet, so I shouldn't have to add much. My paper is actually written up to the point of the study.
I technically have until Spring of 2006 to finish this, unless I request an extension. I'm just hoping that only the beginning of 2005 is a wash.
2) Lee met with the Transplant surgeon and the coordinator today, and he doesn't have to lose any weight, which means they're going to set up his physical. Since he's amazingly healthy, I don't see any problems with that.
3) Barring complications, we can do the surgery around the end of February or the beginning of March, depending on the surgery schedule.
January was chock full of appointments. I scheduled it that way to get everything over with. I'm glad now that I'm done with most of the stuff I needed to take care of, but it was also horribly stressful. Especially when they kept on adding more procedures.
This month I've got three doctor's appointments and three dentist visits. That's it! But, since I need to have dialysis three days a week, and try to work full time, that's enough. I need to slow down a bit. Trying to cram all this stuff in is just making me crazy.
But I'm just so sick of having this tube in my chest I could scream. Not to mention that if I don't get the surgery done soon, they'll put a permanent shunt in my arm. And I hate the one I already have.
Okay, stop that. This is not a bitchy post.
All better? Okay, good.
I am so damn goal-oriented. gunthar says that all the time about me, and I can definitely see that he's right this time. I need to slow down or I'll just make myself sick.
I've started thinking about what I want to do after the transplant. I can tell I'm feeling better; I'm getting bored.
(I know I'll be out of work after the surgery for at least four weeks. I know I won't be doing much more than lounging around, reading, and watching movies for quite a while, and I know I won't feel like doing anything. I'm talking about after that.)
I'm thinking about what I need to do to actually finish my Master's degree, and what kind of job I'd want to get with it. My Master's is in Technical Communication, and I don't actually think I can use it where I am now, unless I take over someday as Safety Coordinator. I could do it, but do I actually want to?
To get my degree, I would need to do my primary research, some of which I could do at my company, and learn a language. I'm going to have to look into night classes. But, two computer programming classes would actually be accepted for the language requirement! How cool is that? (Plus, it would actually complement my degree!)
I already have my secondary research completed, although I'd have to check to make sure other studies haven't been done in the last year (my field is Plain Language as Applied to Safety Documentation, specifically, Material Safety Data Sheets), but no one has really touched the field yet, so I shouldn't have to add much. My paper is actually written up to the point of the study.
I technically have until Spring of 2006 to finish this, unless I request an extension. I'm just hoping that only the beginning of 2005 is a wash.