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A day in the life of Mama Metro (metrogirl)

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Hope you are ok.

 

Hi love! I'm ok, just busy at work and not able to get online like I did before. By the time I get home and finish whatever I am doing for the day, it's usually about time for me to get ready for bed and then I hit the hay so that leaves virtually no ENA time for me. Fortunately today, I am working OT and there are no managers or supervisors here!

 

Life is good. I'm happy, things are coming along alright for the most part. Had an amazing weekend in Vegas last week. I even came home with money and also hit on a football ticket so I will have money when I go back in a couple weeks.

 

Just looking forward to my extended weekend. My son and his girlfriend organized a big dinner tomorrow night to celebrate my birthday. No plans for Sunday that I know of anyway. I suppose I could go to one of the casinos and play a little Keno, see if I can get lucky. Monday is my birthday and Tuesday is my eldest grandson's birthday so I will probably take him down to Legoland for the day. I have been wanting to take him but timing was always bad or money wasn't good, this time I have the time and money.

 

Hope you are all doing well. Miss you guys and I will try to stop in a little more and not be a stranger.

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Hi everyone, thank you for all the birthday wishes.

 

So with age comes aches and pains and guess who's back has the disk pain again? I went to the doctor last week and he gave me a shot in the lower back to help with the swelling and discomfort but it only took the edge off the pain. He kept me out of work for 1 week, thinking that would give me some time to rest up and feel better but it didn't work. I was in pain the entire week, came back to work this morning and hurting just as much as I was a week ago. My doctor is on vacation for 2 weeks and although he does have someone working his office, I don't trust anyone other than him to stick a needle in my back. I did get the referral to see the back surgeon, so I will be calling later today for that appointment. He said that the specialist will likely need to repeat the MRI to see exactly how much the disk is protruding and then they will make a decision on surgery at that time. As much as I dislike the idea, I think we are getting to that point where I am going to need to take time off from work. It's really hard for me to just sit at home but I don't know what else to do. At least at home I can lay down and position my body on my heating pad and get a little relief, here at work I can't do that.

 

Also found out yesterday that the girl I was covering for at the new work location has returned and has displaced me, so I need to figure out what I want to do. I could either return to the previous work site which is 2 miles from the house but I would have to work that awful relief shift that I detested sooo much or I could displace the girl on swing shift here at this location. I would be working 2-10:30 with Sun-Mon off but then I would have to start driving again because I don't want to be standing around in this neighborhood at night waiting for the bus. Swing shift is really not my favorite shift but it does have desirable days off (at least they are perfect for NFL season) lol.

 

I guess I better start thinking about what I really want, I have to give them my decision by tomorrow. Sigh.....

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Hi folks.

 

Back is still really whacked. I can't believe that someone can go through so much pain and still function although there are days that I want to take heads off. So today I decided to go ahead and work swing shift starting next week. I will be in the office from 2pm-10:30pm with Sun/Mon off. I like the days off, I won't miss any football this season so that is a plus, but I don't really like swing shift

per se. Oh well, I can make the best of it I'm sure and I will get more ENA time which will be great!

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Hi everyone. Still alive and kicking, getting ready to return to work tomorrow after 4 days off. My back is a little bit better today, yesterday was the pits. Did some Christmas shopping for the babies and I looked like a little old lady walking through the store.

 

Can I ask you ladies a 'girl' question? Why would someone have a period that lasts for two weeks? my cycle started on my birthday and it's still going and it's heavier than ever. I'm feeling tired but then who wouldn't if you were going for two weeks. Shouldn't I be dead by now? LOL I know I need to see the doctor but he's in China on vacation and he wouldn't be able to see anything anyway because, well you know. I swear my body is whack.

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Hi everyone. Still alive and kicking, getting ready to return to work tomorrow after 4 days off. My back is a little bit better today, yesterday was the pits. Did some Christmas shopping for the babies and I looked like a little old lady walking through the store.

 

Can I ask you ladies a 'girl' question? Why would someone have a period that lasts for two weeks? my cycle started on my birthday and it's still going and it's heavier than ever. I'm feeling tired but then who wouldn't if you were going for two weeks. Shouldn't I be dead by now? LOL I know I need to see the doctor but he's in China on vacation and he wouldn't be able to see anything anyway because, well you know. I swear my body is whack.

 

Changes in periods are a sign of perimenopause. I am having huge changes now and hot flashes.Yeah. Not nice is it? I am not menopausal perse because you have to have 12 consecutive months with no period to be considered in menopause, but I am SO definitely perimenopausal because I skip some periods and they are at different time and I am having hot flashes daily now.

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I never had long periods during pre menopause, I just skipped some and they gradually got shorter and shorter. But I know from some of my friends that that can happen, so maybe that's it. I got hot flashes, but they never really bothered me. It was the mood swings that did me in. I stayed off of pills and go through it just fine. I'm now losing weight again, I'm my old, lovable self, and things are pretty much back to the way they were before, except I haven't had a period in two years! YESSSSS!

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I ran into an old work colleague today. We used to work at the same location years ago and then he transferred out. I actually saw him on my first day at the new site 6 or 7 weeks ago. It was great seeing him and I remembered at that very moment when I saw him that he had been sick. He also has kidney failure and does dialysis 3 times a week. Today we had a chance to talk some more and he was asking questions about Jesse and how he was coping with kidney failure. I asked him if he was active on the transplant list and he said that he has to get clearance from one of his doctors then he will be listed as active again.

 

I have said many times before that if I can't donate to Jesse, I was going to donate to someone, anyone. My goal of course is to save a family from the grief of having to bury a loved one and then it occurred to me when I was talking to him today, if it doesn't work out for Jesse to get a kidney from me, then I will get tested and try and donate to my friend.

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