quigonejinn

I have been napping all day and now it is 10:40 at night and I am awake and plotting tomorrow.

I have decided to make Japanese curry and rice tomorrow. I am finally in the mood for potatoes. Plus it is supposed to be cold. I also have the makings for Thai red curry, so I might go in that direction too. I have eggplant and green beans!

Being on medical leave is weird because on the one hand, I feel mostly ok! But then I shift wrong (ow) or pass out for three hours unexpectedly. I definitely need this time off, if just for further COVID recovery. (Remember, I had that last month.)

The one rather funny story of me on anesthesia is that when I remember becoming aware post-anesthesia, my care nurse was asking me questions about my library degree and library services for her grandson. I was puzzled about this but chatted on and came to find out I had been infodumping about information storage theory and how structures of information services function. Also that Illinois libraries let you have reciprocal services across public libraries. When she passed me on, she laughed and told me she’d learned a whole lot and complimented my diversity of knowledge and how much I seemed to like reading. 🤣 Sounds like me.

Basically, there's stuff moving around at work that might give me some development/work diversity opportunities. It's a natural flow from one to the other, but I don't know that I can really grapple with it/attempt to take on said new responsibilities right now. (Surgery + recovery, etc.) Still, it's nice to have an area that I could stand up and go "Yo, this needs doing and I have the skills, maybe let's have me move into this role."

In other news, my FMLA paperwork adventure (can I ever have a clam one of these?) continues apace. Luckily, my HR people know what's up and my surgery is super straight forward, and it's been flagged with them as a "I am waiting for paperwork, sorry it is late, here is why it's kind of late" and a priority for rubber stamping. Basically, everyone who's ever worked with me for more than a month knows and realizes I'm painfully meticulous with rule following and a huge goody two-shoes. Still, paperwork stresses me the fuck out.

I have, however, gotten most stuff in order. I need to buy a few small things and pack my bag, but I've organized the hotel stay (close to the hospital and less stress overall for transit to/from, post-op), pre-paid some bills, and printed out all my instructions.

I've also been cleared by my doctor for surgery. Which, there was a minorly hilarious mix-up with my lab work. I went to get it done last Saturday, but there was a mix up on what type of labs I needed (I needed pre-op non-fasting labs, they assumed I needed my fasting labs done), so when I walked into my appt yesterday, my doc was freaking out re: my results. Mind, I'd had breakfast the morning of the lab tests (Non! FASTING!), but when I noted that, the doc basically went "Oh, thank god. Also, great labs for having eaten an hour before!" *confetti emoji*

But! All my paperwork has been submitted! Now I just need to wait for approval. Fingers crossed, y'all.

Proof of where my brain is currently; I was reading a thing and it started with a sentence reading "Dale and Sarah..." but my brain read that as "dah-leh" because I forgot "Dale" is a name and not "go ahead" in Spanish.

On the up side, I had delicious grilled food last night at a local Mexican place. I brought the leftovers for lunch today and am cheerfully looking forward to that.

I am also doing the prep-work for my surgery next week. Had a mild panic about not having the FMLA paperwork done, but got that turned in to the DR for filling out and the other bit to HR, just awaiting the medical certification. Given that it is ME who is having surgery and it's a short recovery, it should go through pretty quickly.

I also got an estimate for the surgery and fuck me. No out of pocket because every medical professional who's looked at the situation has gone "...off to surgery for you!" But fuuuuuuuuuuuck.