Feeling Better
Hey there LJ friends!
It's been a while (understatement). Mostly I just really dislike posting journal entries from my phone, they're awkward to type and format. LJ Mobile pretty much stinks. I'm at work right now, sooo HELLO PC.
So, I AM OUT OF STARBUCKS!!! Like, not working there anymore...that kind of out. For a while I had THREE jobs going there....until my body just stopped. It just refused to function anymore...Starbucks was starting to make me feel crazy back in July, but I decided to ignore it and carry on. So stoic. Things got very unbearable when the store manager made the decision to have me work in the Drive-Thru-DESPITE me telling her that was the last thing I wanted to do. It became daily panic attacks, total memory loss, zero appetite, headaches, and abdominal pain...all from stress. Yes, I was partly to blame as I found an AMAZING new job at a Kinesiology clinic (that's a whole other post) and I was working seven days a week. From the end of July on, I worked a total of 45 days with only four days off. I usually worked 12-14 hour days.
The one clinic that I worked at closed at the end of August, making it a little easier to work around two jobs, but by mid-September...I was done. I came down with a UTI (ucky) which did not respond to my normal, effective herbal treatments. It spread to my bladder, and finally to my right kidney, bringing a lovely close to a 14 hour workday, after which I took the bus 1 1/2 home and to the emergency room at the hospital. Mmmmhmmm. Thankfully, my friend, who is also my doctor came and sat there with me for five hours. I have the absolute BEST pictures from that hospital visit, I will try to add them in later.
The next day my doctor wrote me a letter to give to Starbucks, putting me on stress leave, effective immediately.
My new boss, who is wonderful in every way, treated my pain-tense muscles and declared that he was bringing me on full-time and Starbucks would just have to deal with a new limited availability.
That was that.
As a healer, Paul (my new boss) was utterly horrified at the state of my physical body, a solid example of the effects of stress.
Everything, since has been great. my infection was treated with heavy antibiotics (I was this close to being on IV antibiotics) and I started treating the adrenal fatigue with a combination of supplements. Menatally, I'm not so fantastic...my memory is just, gone. It's hard and frustrating to try and work with this. I often forget stuff, but my new job is incredibly supportive.
I am finally looking forward to starting my 2013, as everything seemed to screech to a halt when I lost my job in January.
I miss my LJ friends, I have been reading, just doing much else.
It's been a while (understatement). Mostly I just really dislike posting journal entries from my phone, they're awkward to type and format. LJ Mobile pretty much stinks. I'm at work right now, sooo HELLO PC.
So, I AM OUT OF STARBUCKS!!! Like, not working there anymore...that kind of out. For a while I had THREE jobs going there....until my body just stopped. It just refused to function anymore...Starbucks was starting to make me feel crazy back in July, but I decided to ignore it and carry on. So stoic. Things got very unbearable when the store manager made the decision to have me work in the Drive-Thru-DESPITE me telling her that was the last thing I wanted to do. It became daily panic attacks, total memory loss, zero appetite, headaches, and abdominal pain...all from stress. Yes, I was partly to blame as I found an AMAZING new job at a Kinesiology clinic (that's a whole other post) and I was working seven days a week. From the end of July on, I worked a total of 45 days with only four days off. I usually worked 12-14 hour days.
The one clinic that I worked at closed at the end of August, making it a little easier to work around two jobs, but by mid-September...I was done. I came down with a UTI (ucky) which did not respond to my normal, effective herbal treatments. It spread to my bladder, and finally to my right kidney, bringing a lovely close to a 14 hour workday, after which I took the bus 1 1/2 home and to the emergency room at the hospital. Mmmmhmmm. Thankfully, my friend, who is also my doctor came and sat there with me for five hours. I have the absolute BEST pictures from that hospital visit, I will try to add them in later.
The next day my doctor wrote me a letter to give to Starbucks, putting me on stress leave, effective immediately.
My new boss, who is wonderful in every way, treated my pain-tense muscles and declared that he was bringing me on full-time and Starbucks would just have to deal with a new limited availability.
That was that.
As a healer, Paul (my new boss) was utterly horrified at the state of my physical body, a solid example of the effects of stress.
Everything, since has been great. my infection was treated with heavy antibiotics (I was this close to being on IV antibiotics) and I started treating the adrenal fatigue with a combination of supplements. Menatally, I'm not so fantastic...my memory is just, gone. It's hard and frustrating to try and work with this. I often forget stuff, but my new job is incredibly supportive.
I am finally looking forward to starting my 2013, as everything seemed to screech to a halt when I lost my job in January.
I miss my LJ friends, I have been reading, just doing much else.