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What a week it has been! J has been home with a fluey-chest infection for 4 days, I bought a new car last week and am closing the deal this morning. I was messed around on a low loan I am taking out for the car-because it is small, I am getting a poor interest rate (12.5%) but I don't see the value in borrowing 3 grand more for a 5.25% rate-and please don't tell me there is value because it is said and done. I have gone back and forth so many times I started loosing sleep and was getting a migrane. Never mind, loan is sorted. Getting the car-have to wake sick hubby to close. I miss American sales men who you fight and haggle with and get what you want-with dinner thrown in. They just don't do that here. Ugh!
Valentine's day was a bit of a wash this year (see above) but J got me a lovely bouquet of flowers, the new Louis XIV cd (want a copy of it, H?), and a CD of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, which I have been wanting-oh, and he bought me the retro added lights for my mini. I got him some obligatory chocolates, a cover for his PS3 guitar hero guitar, and a new shirt for casual fridays. We didn't do dinner this year as J is still unwell. I think I might have to get him to a doctor on Monday.
On Thursday I took 1/2 day annual leave and 1/2 day study leave from work as I went back to QMU to give a lecture and life as a Newly Qualified Practitioner and on interviewing skills/application processes. It was really good. I got a lot of positive feedback and it was really bizzare to see people taking notes off what i had to say. I will be invited back to lecture again (get paid a wee bit for doing it too) in August and next February. I was a bit nervous at first though!
Yesterday I was assessing a 2 1/2 year old who was referred for stuttering. Stuttering. He came into the room, with his damn dummy in his mouth (binky) and was quite happy to talk to me with the damn thing in his mouth. All dummys/binkies should be banned, burned, and never used. It pisses me off to see children who are talking with the damn thing in their mouth. UGH!!! If it were not that the family has a history of dysfluency, I would have discharged and sent them away. To add to my frustration, this child was THE MOST obstinant child I have ever met who was not on the Autistic Spectrum! All this child wanted to do was throw things at me-litterally-his juice bottle, toys, a soft ball (which hit me in the face-I thought I had found a job where balls didn't fly at my face...). I could not belive his determination-shouting at me 'no', even when I gave him my 'no!, sad' scary speech therapist face-most children listen more to strangers than they do their parents. Mother is expecting her second child in April. I encouraged her to stay in touch with her health visitor as I worry that she has some very challenging times ahead with his behaviour.
The next child I saw for assessment was 3;9 year old boy who was referred for stuttering. Indeed, the boy, who was lovely, did have a stutter. It broke my heart to listen to him. It was a really, really tough day. By the end of it I was in laughing-crying mode. I just could not believe I had a child who threw things at me, consistently and then...it was just a rollercoaster. This job is not easy. I am up to seeing 7 cases a day in my community clinics and I see 11 a day in the nurseries. Still, I would not want to do any other job.
I hope all is well with everyone else. I have 3 days annual leave I am taking Wed-Fri this week coming. I am going to sew my coat I bought the fabric for last autumn. I am lookfing forward to some 'me' time while J is at work.
Lx
Valentine's day was a bit of a wash this year (see above) but J got me a lovely bouquet of flowers, the new Louis XIV cd (want a copy of it, H?), and a CD of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, which I have been wanting-oh, and he bought me the retro added lights for my mini. I got him some obligatory chocolates, a cover for his PS3 guitar hero guitar, and a new shirt for casual fridays. We didn't do dinner this year as J is still unwell. I think I might have to get him to a doctor on Monday.
On Thursday I took 1/2 day annual leave and 1/2 day study leave from work as I went back to QMU to give a lecture and life as a Newly Qualified Practitioner and on interviewing skills/application processes. It was really good. I got a lot of positive feedback and it was really bizzare to see people taking notes off what i had to say. I will be invited back to lecture again (get paid a wee bit for doing it too) in August and next February. I was a bit nervous at first though!
Yesterday I was assessing a 2 1/2 year old who was referred for stuttering. Stuttering. He came into the room, with his damn dummy in his mouth (binky) and was quite happy to talk to me with the damn thing in his mouth. All dummys/binkies should be banned, burned, and never used. It pisses me off to see children who are talking with the damn thing in their mouth. UGH!!! If it were not that the family has a history of dysfluency, I would have discharged and sent them away. To add to my frustration, this child was THE MOST obstinant child I have ever met who was not on the Autistic Spectrum! All this child wanted to do was throw things at me-litterally-his juice bottle, toys, a soft ball (which hit me in the face-I thought I had found a job where balls didn't fly at my face...). I could not belive his determination-shouting at me 'no', even when I gave him my 'no!, sad' scary speech therapist face-most children listen more to strangers than they do their parents. Mother is expecting her second child in April. I encouraged her to stay in touch with her health visitor as I worry that she has some very challenging times ahead with his behaviour.
The next child I saw for assessment was 3;9 year old boy who was referred for stuttering. Indeed, the boy, who was lovely, did have a stutter. It broke my heart to listen to him. It was a really, really tough day. By the end of it I was in laughing-crying mode. I just could not believe I had a child who threw things at me, consistently and then...it was just a rollercoaster. This job is not easy. I am up to seeing 7 cases a day in my community clinics and I see 11 a day in the nurseries. Still, I would not want to do any other job.
I hope all is well with everyone else. I have 3 days annual leave I am taking Wed-Fri this week coming. I am going to sew my coat I bought the fabric for last autumn. I am lookfing forward to some 'me' time while J is at work.
Lx