This has not been a fun month... one might equate it to an emotional roller coaster... but this is not a roller coaster I'd recommend anyone riding...
So, first I find the suspicious mole... get it checked, they decided to remove it. I just finally got the results back... Benign, thankfully
... but I'm just getting started...
The day before the excising of the mole, I got sick... most likely the cold that's been bringing people down all over... fine... so, I end up staying home an extra week from work (the first week, when i found the mole, was a scheduled vacation time). Went back last week... on Thursday I gave notice at the library... with the mole issue, I realized that life is too short to be in a job you hate... so I gave notice... oddly enough, during my annual review... which was supposed to be the week I was out sick... go figure. but my stress level (and my gas bill) will go down in spades once I'm out of there...
everything's fine... still a little congested from the cold... it takes me a while to give colds the heave-ho...
Monday evening... about 5pm, I'm an hour from getting off work at the store (the job I'm going to gain a couple days at until I find something better). I come back from my final break after a long and hectic day cutting fabric. I started feeling off... sore and achy all over, with my right shoulder worse than the rest of me... and light headed... I just stood in one place and cut fabric... by 5:45, I took a step back and realized I REALLY wasn't well... I went off, slowly, in search of a manager... got permission to leave a little early and headed home... by the time I reached my front door I was shivering so badly I'm sure you could hear my keys in Texas... to make the rest of the story short, I fought a fluctuating fever, chills and all... my highest so far was 102.3 last night... I also noticed last night that the pain in my right shoulder was not just soreness from cutting fabric (I normally cashier and rarely cut, esp. all day)... it was swollen.
Crud. Crud. Crud. I'd made an appt for Friday morning for the doctor, but called and got in this morning instead... this was to look at the (still) infected ear piercing (yes, since July, it's stubborn as h*ll)... and see what could be done to boost my immune system (which is as 'spreadable' as an infected ear piercing can get, as told to me by one doctor two weeks ago)... the doctor looked at my ears, etc... and said it all looked 'okay' (yeah, this is an elderly man, I doubt he's ever had a piercing).
He was, however, stumped by the swelling of my neck/shoulder (basically where the neck hits the shoulder). He called an esteemed colleague in... who noticed there were small semi-hard (harder than the tissue around it) lumps within the swelled area... freaking wonderful. They ordered blood work, a follow up for tomorrow, and ultrasound... which, thankfully, I got in today... took some doing, but they crammed me in between other patients...
I headed off to pick up the antibiotics he ordered for me... heh heh heh... Safeway never got the order. And I tried calling the clinic and they are apparently closed... even though they're supposed to be open until 8pm tonight.
So help me God, October better be one a**-kicking GOOD month (preferably NOT my a**). I'm about to go nuts here...
And I also got a judgement from Oregon State Revenue... they want owed taxes from me for last year... seriously... if I'd HAD the money to begin with, I would have PAID them... but I don't... Dad, once again, will help bail me out of another financial stickie... I'm really starting to hate the government... and health insurance companies... but that's another topic.
Amanda
So, first I find the suspicious mole... get it checked, they decided to remove it. I just finally got the results back... Benign, thankfully
The day before the excising of the mole, I got sick... most likely the cold that's been bringing people down all over... fine... so, I end up staying home an extra week from work (the first week, when i found the mole, was a scheduled vacation time). Went back last week... on Thursday I gave notice at the library... with the mole issue, I realized that life is too short to be in a job you hate... so I gave notice... oddly enough, during my annual review... which was supposed to be the week I was out sick... go figure. but my stress level (and my gas bill) will go down in spades once I'm out of there...
everything's fine... still a little congested from the cold... it takes me a while to give colds the heave-ho...
Monday evening... about 5pm, I'm an hour from getting off work at the store (the job I'm going to gain a couple days at until I find something better). I come back from my final break after a long and hectic day cutting fabric. I started feeling off... sore and achy all over, with my right shoulder worse than the rest of me... and light headed... I just stood in one place and cut fabric... by 5:45, I took a step back and realized I REALLY wasn't well... I went off, slowly, in search of a manager... got permission to leave a little early and headed home... by the time I reached my front door I was shivering so badly I'm sure you could hear my keys in Texas... to make the rest of the story short, I fought a fluctuating fever, chills and all... my highest so far was 102.3 last night... I also noticed last night that the pain in my right shoulder was not just soreness from cutting fabric (I normally cashier and rarely cut, esp. all day)... it was swollen.
Crud. Crud. Crud. I'd made an appt for Friday morning for the doctor, but called and got in this morning instead... this was to look at the (still) infected ear piercing (yes, since July, it's stubborn as h*ll)... and see what could be done to boost my immune system (which is as 'spreadable' as an infected ear piercing can get, as told to me by one doctor two weeks ago)... the doctor looked at my ears, etc... and said it all looked 'okay' (yeah, this is an elderly man, I doubt he's ever had a piercing).
He was, however, stumped by the swelling of my neck/shoulder (basically where the neck hits the shoulder). He called an esteemed colleague in... who noticed there were small semi-hard (harder than the tissue around it) lumps within the swelled area... freaking wonderful. They ordered blood work, a follow up for tomorrow, and ultrasound... which, thankfully, I got in today... took some doing, but they crammed me in between other patients...
I headed off to pick up the antibiotics he ordered for me... heh heh heh... Safeway never got the order. And I tried calling the clinic and they are apparently closed... even though they're supposed to be open until 8pm tonight.
So help me God, October better be one a**-kicking GOOD month (preferably NOT my a**). I'm about to go nuts here...
And I also got a judgement from Oregon State Revenue... they want owed taxes from me for last year... seriously... if I'd HAD the money to begin with, I would have PAID them... but I don't... Dad, once again, will help bail me out of another financial stickie... I'm really starting to hate the government... and health insurance companies... but that's another topic.
Amanda
