Monday, May 11, 2009

Monday Monday

Another work week bites the dust. Thank goodness. It's been busier the last few nights. I guess because it's warmer and all the dingbats go out, get drunk and or high and get stupid. And boy has there been some serious stupid. I suppose it makes life interesting. Work has become a constant state of turmoil and drama. Everyone is constantly complaining about everyone else. We have two charge nurses who are essentially both bullies. I suppose it's good that for the most part they don't like each other much and aren't bullying the same people. One is pretty open and up front about it and the other is a lot more passive aggressive about it but the results are the same. I usually work with the passive aggressive one (the same one who has made comments about my weight, my lack of what she thinks is an interesting life etc) and while I have gotten better about ignoring her frequent disparaging comments about plus size people and have therefore been able to work with her mostly peacefully, I am still really bothered by watching her bully others. And it happens daily. She has apparently also remarked on other peoples weight that we work with and told a patient that he was fat. I'm at the point where I just don't know what to do any more. If I keep quiet I can probably exist mostly peacefully with her but it bugs me a lot that she treats others so badly. If I step up and say something to her or the manager then she will of course make my life difficult too along with almost everyone else.
Not too much else happening right now I suppose. A couple of weeks ago I did a sleep study test to check for sleep apnea. It looks like it came back that I do in fact have sleep apnea because tonight I'm going back for the second part of the test with the CPAP machine. I'm actually maybe happy about this? Not happy that I have sleep apnea but happy that maybe if we start treating it I will start feeling better and have more energy and maybe even exercise more. With that in mind I found an elliptical on Cra*igs*list yesterday. It's a G0lds Gym one and I got it for a pretty good price. And the really funny thing? I actually also got it to fit in the back of my car. Yup folks, you can fit an elliptical in the back of a Sub*aru F0rrester (without taking it apart). Now all I have to do is really work at getting myself going. Cause right now? I can make it about 3 minutes before I feel like I'm going to totally freaking die. Maybe I can make it 5 by the end of the week???
Oh and I don't know what's happened but it seems that since my last IVF try my cycle has went to hell in a hand basket. I have always had a regular 28 day cycle. Sometimes even a totally freaking annoying cycle that lasted 28 days even though it really should have lasted longer thanks to meds. So I was a bit surprised by the first cycle after that lasted like 41 days. The next month I was back to close to normal at 30 days. The month after that? Back to weird ville and 40 days. This last month was another 30 day cycle. However right after AF left (about 3 days) all of the sudden I had tons of CM. Like fertile CM. Like EWCM. And then I had a day of this weird cramping that felt almost like tenderness around ovulation that lasted about 24 hours and then disappeared completely taking all the CM with it. I find myself wondering if ovulation is sort of may occurring or trying to occur totally separate from my period. Is that even freaking possible?? I can't figure it out at all. Notice of course that even though there is pretty much no hope of cycling any time soon I'm still keeping track of all that stuff. I wonder if that will ever quit.
D is doing pretty good. Still adjusting and when I talk to him he's bored. All that time on his hands not going to work and all. I'm trying to convince him to come down here for a few days. Where the weather is nice :). It's been high 80's here all week which is very nice.
So that's life in my little corner of the world. I'm off for 2 nights now and I plan to relax as much as possible and maybe clean a little bit. Or maybe not.

15 comments:

Kami said...

I had a coworker get a cpap and it was an amazing change and he lost weight too.

I think IVF can do that to your cycle. Too bad acu isn't in the cards right now because I think it helps get things back on track.

Weather here is still crappy.

sunflowerchilde said...

I just discovered the elliptical trainer at the gym because my knee makes running too difficult. I thought I'd hate it, but I actually really like it. Hopefully you adjust to it quickly and end up liking it a lot too.

Billy said...

That is some dilema, I would probably keep quiet, but then I probably don't have such a wide heart as you have :-).

I hope that if you do indeed have sleep apnea, that now that you know you can treat it, and that will help with the lack of energy.

Michelle said...

OMG those ellipiticals are a b%$%%&

My sister was telling me about and I had never tried it. I thought "really how bad could it be?" I got on and thought I was dying after about 1 minute and 1/2.

Good for you getting it and good luck!

Kristin said...

"I find myself wondering if ovulation is sort of may occurring or trying to occur totally separate from my period."

Believe it or not, it is actually possible to ovulate more than once in a cycle (definitely not the norm).

I think working for a bully would drive me crazy.

JJ said...

Enjoy your nights off!

Jamie said...

It was also a full moon this weekend, too. I don't know about you but I am a firm believer that a full moon can create a stupid cloud that affects EVERYONE. By the time I got home after working Sat & Sun, I thought my head was going to explode.

Anonymous said...

Have a great 2 nights off! And enjoy the elliptical. I've heard only good things about them! Good luck! :)

Anonymous said...

I have an elliptical gathering dust in the basement...

I am having similar weirdness with my cycles after our last IVF in early March. Of course on the non-cycling months my body seems "more fertile." I wonder if we'll ever stop paying attention to this, too.

Enjoy the time away from that bully! You have my empathy - I don't have any good advice.

Unknown said...

Yay on the elliptical! Sounds like a good deal.

I hope you enjoy your two nights off!

MissNoAngel (find me on Twitter) said...

Maybe instead of confronting the head nurse yourself you could file a formal complaint? Seems like if you try to take her on she'll just take it out on you...but if she is picking on patients too maybe it needs to come from someone higher up?

Wierd about the cycles - are you temping? You could try temping to see when O is occuring.

Hope you get to sleeping/exercising better soon. I know what you mean about 3 minutes and then you feel like you are gonig to die!

princessoftides said...

Enjoy your days off! Interesting about the sleep apnea. I hope once you start treating it everything gets better! I've actually wondered about that because I'm soooooooo tired all the time. But I don't really snore much, so not sure that's my excuse :)

twondra said...

That's wierd about your cycles. I haven't heard of that happening before.

I hope you enjoy your 2 days off and be sure to rest. :)

Shinejil said...

I hope the sleep apnea treatment helps. When I've been building up on a machine or with a new type of exercise, it really helped to do intervals of just a few minutes, then walk for ten minutes, then try another interval. Each week, you can try increasing the interval by a minute or two.

I bet between the CPAP and slowly building up on the elliptical you'll be feeling much better soon.

Bullies: argh. They waste so much of everyone's energy! I'm sorry you have to deal with that.

MrsSpock said...

I'm a big fan of the elliptical, though I admit that at first, I could barely last 5 minutes on it either.