It’s a WFH Friday, and boy do I need an easy day. I only had a few things on my work calendar this week, but it turned that I was scrambling to get everything done. I did my best to get as much done as possible so I could take it relatively easy today. I have a few things to follow up on today, but unless something unexpected comes up, which seems to have happened every day this week, I can wrap things up quickly and mostly just monitor emails today. We’ll see how well those plans pan out.
I hope everyone has a great weekend! I have no plans, though maybe I’ll go for a walk/hike and get some nice pictures of the fall foliage.
It’s going to be a long day, and this is going to be a short post. I don’t have to work tonight like I normally do when I say I have a long day ahead. In fact, I’ll be leaving work early today. No, it will be a long day because it starts out with teaching a new class. I’ve taught classes similar to this one, but this has some clear differences. I have my fingers crossed that it goes smoothly. There isn’t as much to do during the middle of the day, but I have to leave work early because I have a dentist appointment. It’s time to get the crown on the tooth I recently had a root canal done. It’s going to be a long day of dreading that appointment.
This weekend just wasn’t long enough. I have a pretty busy week ahead. I have several classes to teach, at least one VIP tour to give, a few meetings, and to top it all off, I have to go to the dentist to have a tooth prepped for a crown. However, all I want to do this morning is to crawl back in bed, but one of those classes I mentioned is today. Hopefully, the headache I woke up with this morning will go away as the day goes on. Usually, when I wake with a migraine, it goes away by mid-morning. I hope that’s how today goes.
Only one more day to work this week. I worked from home yesterday instead of today because I have a class to teach this afternoon. It should be a fun class, and I’ve taught variations on this class many times. Once the class is over, I can pack up and go home, and my weekend will begin.
Thankfully, since the rain has passed by, my migraine is better, and my abdomen pain seems to be slowly getting better. Even though I’m feeling better, I have no weekend plans. I want just a nice relaxing weekend to continue recovering from this GI illness I’ve been dealing with for the past two week.
I sat down to write a post this morning, and I started on several, but none of them felt right. I just didn’t have any good ideas. I think it’s mostly because I’m tired. It’s been a long week, and it’s only half over. Maybe, the rest of the week will be a little easier.
I guess one thing I could write about is how my ultrasound went on Friday. Like the blood test done at the first of the week, the abdominal ultrasound did not show any problems. Everything seemed normal. However, I’m still experiencing pain that comes and goes and varies in intensity. Although I did not see my primary doctor when I went to the clinic, he did review my test results. He believes I have an GI issue that could be viral or bacterial, and it should continue to improve. He said they have had a lot of patients with similar issues, so he really thinks it’s something that’s going around, probably because students are back in town. Anyway, he said that if it gets worse or is not better by the first of next week, he wants to do more tests to rule out an issue with my gallbladder or pancreatitis.
So right now, I’m just waiting it out and hoping it will improve if I stay on a bland diet. Ugh! I hate bland diets. The BRAT diet (bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast) is to keep from aggravating my digestive tract. I guess we will see. This has been lingering for nearly two weeks now.
I’ve said before that I don’t often remember dreams. When I do remember them, they tend to be very vivid, at least right after I wake up. They fade as the day goes on. Last night was a night of one dream after another. They never seemed to be the same. Each dream had their own unique scenario but they had one common denominator. The dreams all featured naked men, and all the men had one thing in common. They were all uncircumcised. Most Americans are circumcised, so my personal experience with uncircumcised men is limited. Who knows why I had a fixation last night on uncircumcised men, but I guess we really never know why we dream what we dream.
I’m so glad Friday is here; it’s been a rough week. The abdominal pain I’ve been experiencing started a week ago, and I’ve had only short periods of relief. The pain has increased at times with minor pain at other times, but it’s mostly been constant pain and discomfort. I hope today’s ultrasound will provide some answers.
Regardless, it’s Friday, and I can take the weekend to rest and recover. Today, though, will be a long day. Work will be very busy today, and I have to take time out of this busy day to get the ultrasound. It’s basically going to be nonstop until about 6 pm or so. If the pain gets worse this afternoon, I can probably get out of the social event I’m supposed to attend for work, but I’d prefer that this pain not get worse.
I’m going back to work today. If we didn’t have a large event this weekend and if I didn’t have classes to prepare for, I would not be returning today. It’s only for half day today because I’m going for a Botox treatment this afternoon. With the headaches I’ve had over the last two weeks, I know it’s time for a Botox treatment. It tends to wear off around about week ten of the twelve that are supposed to separate each treatment. It’s going to be a long day because my Botox appointment isn’t until late this afternoon, so I won’t get home until late. I try to schedule these appointments in the morning so I can take the whole day off. I guess it’s good that I wasn’t able to do that this time, considering I have work to catch up on today.
It’s been a long week. I was mostly busy all week except for yesterday when I was just bored. Having very little to do can be just as tiring as being busy nearly every minute of the day. Thank goodness this is a work from home day. I can just take it easy and mostly just monitor my email.
Have a great weekend everyone! Here’s you Isabella pic of the week:
Isabella and this little Robin used to love staring at each other. She’ll ignore all other birds and wildlife, but she has a fascination with robins.
Joe
