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I have been sick for over 3 weeks now. It started as a sore throat the weekend of the 10th, then I partially lost my voice the following Tuesday. The next few days was just a lot of coughing, but it wasn't a chest cough. However, about a week and a half later, I think brought on by a work trip to Toronto, this cough turned into a chest cold. I had a fever the Sunday night (24th) and had to take the Monday off of work. Last Thursday it migrated into my ears, and I went and got some antibiotics that night. The following day, I was nauseous and had to cancel my job, since I couldn't leave the bathroom. Now, today I am still nauseous - last night I was up until about 2am feeling very sick. I was supposed to work an afternoon job today, but I ended up cancelling it because I just don't feel good enough to be in front of a classroom teaching.
I still have to tutor tonight - a new client, grade 11 girl, actually the daughter of my former Grade 3 teacher, and they were recommended to contact me by my aunt, who is a psychologist that the daughter sees - and it is my first time meeting with them, so I am going and I want to impress them and make them feel confident in my abilities so I can get referrals. After that is Pathfinders.
I am seriously considering stepping back from pathfinders next year. I love the unit, I love the kids, I love the impact I have with them, but every week is a little too much for me to do with them. I need to sit down and talk with my co-leader about me staying on as a leader, but stepping back from weekly events. I am getting overwhelmed, between pushing the tutoring business, union meetings and conferences, and trying to attempt to keep my apartment in order (I haven't done laundry in 2.5 weeks, and I am slowly running out of clean underwear), and I am simply exhausted all the time lately. I did this last year and by the time June came, with Oma's death in late May, I was depressed and stressed and unable to really function on any sort of higher level.
I have promised myself that I will cut back if I need to on things, and focus on me and what I need for my mental and phsyical health, and that is what today is.
I still have to tutor tonight - a new client, grade 11 girl, actually the daughter of my former Grade 3 teacher, and they were recommended to contact me by my aunt, who is a psychologist that the daughter sees - and it is my first time meeting with them, so I am going and I want to impress them and make them feel confident in my abilities so I can get referrals. After that is Pathfinders.
I am seriously considering stepping back from pathfinders next year. I love the unit, I love the kids, I love the impact I have with them, but every week is a little too much for me to do with them. I need to sit down and talk with my co-leader about me staying on as a leader, but stepping back from weekly events. I am getting overwhelmed, between pushing the tutoring business, union meetings and conferences, and trying to attempt to keep my apartment in order (I haven't done laundry in 2.5 weeks, and I am slowly running out of clean underwear), and I am simply exhausted all the time lately. I did this last year and by the time June came, with Oma's death in late May, I was depressed and stressed and unable to really function on any sort of higher level.
I have promised myself that I will cut back if I need to on things, and focus on me and what I need for my mental and phsyical health, and that is what today is.