*hack* *ahem* Lovely Day
So I had my regularly scheduled every 4 to 6 months appointment with my Endocrinologist who is also my GP this morning. First the good news: My BP has settled back down to high normal now that I'm not taking Day-quill so that's good for another month until something else sets it off. My thyroid levels were "normal".
The bad news: I don't have a particularly stubborn cold I have viral bronchitis which according to Dr. R can stick around for up to two months. Yay. He did give me a 'script for codeine cough syrup and as much as I hate how it feels to be stoned on codeine by taking very small sips every hour or so instead of a spoonful at the recommended intervals it has kept me from hacking my lungs out today but still functional otherwise. At least until an hour ago when I took a full dose so it would work overnight and right now I'm very stoned. Urg. But hey I'm conducting a scientific experiement: I'm watching the second half of the Bob Dylan bio on PBS right now and despite my expectations he does not sound better if I'm in an altered state.
More bad news, Dr. R. doesn't want to put me on a different BP med because the next step would be beta blockers and that would severely worsen my asthma. He just wants me to continue trying COQ10 and working on building up my physical fitness. *sigh* I'm an American and I demand quick fixes. Now!
At least I got to eat lunch at Bento, my favorite restaurant, before I went back to work. Chicken Yakatori with steamed cabbage and rice and green beans and a small helping of seasame noodles. I could seriously eat there every day of the week.
The first task was to stop at the bank on the way in to cash the petty cash checks for this month and I got a teller who seemed to be rather put out that I would disturb her afternoon and force her to actually work and greated my attempts at small talk with the sort of nose in the air cold shoulder that a Hell's Angel might expect if he stopped by the Debutant's Ball. I really hacked her off when I had to correct her twice because she's new and also doesn't pay attention. When I told her I wanted the money mostly in 10s and 5s and she handed me a stack of mostly twenties it should not have surprised her when I handed half of them back and asked for 10s instead. It's called petty cash for a reason.
Then after a stop at the store to pickup ingredients for the Occupational Therapists' cooking group and some cleaner I got to spend a solid hour trying to get permanent marker off a $600 rolling dry erase board after some kids were left unattended and bored. When I say permanent I don't simply mean magic marker, I mean the stuff that is designed to mark equipment and withstand normal daily cleaning. The markers we use to write "Property Of..." on the ice pack covers and the transfer boards. The stuff mothers probably use to mark their kids underwear with before shipping them off to camp as an alternative to killing the little darlings.
I have tried Dry Erase Board Cleaner, rubbing alcohol, orange oil, stove cleaner, and finally concentrated Simple Green. A half a bottle of Simple Green got 75% of the stuff off. Enough that one side is usable for the most part. If anybody has a suggestion for something that will get off the marker without removing the surface of the board please share it.
I don't remember right now if I posted about the day of the three computers last week but short version is that my hard drive died, the replacement didn't work, and the new computer keeps coming up with missing stuff I need to do my job. As of today I still do not have the ability to print to one of the four printers I need.
Nobody needs 4 printers? Oh, yeah? I have a label printer of my very own and I'm linked in one way or another to a black and white printer and a color printer I share with my office mate as well as a printer in the outpatient clinic which is hooked into the corporate network. The black and white printer is faster and cheaper to use than the color printer, I need the color printer for flyers, banners, cards, and graphs, and one of the things that I have to print out to compile a monthly report will only print to a "network printer". We do not have a network printer in our office because they will only hook up a certain model to the corporate network and it costs something like 3 times what a regular printer costs so we get to walk to one of the three or four network printers scattered around the building instead.
Time to shut up and pass out now I think.
The bad news: I don't have a particularly stubborn cold I have viral bronchitis which according to Dr. R can stick around for up to two months. Yay. He did give me a 'script for codeine cough syrup and as much as I hate how it feels to be stoned on codeine by taking very small sips every hour or so instead of a spoonful at the recommended intervals it has kept me from hacking my lungs out today but still functional otherwise. At least until an hour ago when I took a full dose so it would work overnight and right now I'm very stoned. Urg. But hey I'm conducting a scientific experiement: I'm watching the second half of the Bob Dylan bio on PBS right now and despite my expectations he does not sound better if I'm in an altered state.
More bad news, Dr. R. doesn't want to put me on a different BP med because the next step would be beta blockers and that would severely worsen my asthma. He just wants me to continue trying COQ10 and working on building up my physical fitness. *sigh* I'm an American and I demand quick fixes. Now!
At least I got to eat lunch at Bento, my favorite restaurant, before I went back to work. Chicken Yakatori with steamed cabbage and rice and green beans and a small helping of seasame noodles. I could seriously eat there every day of the week.
The first task was to stop at the bank on the way in to cash the petty cash checks for this month and I got a teller who seemed to be rather put out that I would disturb her afternoon and force her to actually work and greated my attempts at small talk with the sort of nose in the air cold shoulder that a Hell's Angel might expect if he stopped by the Debutant's Ball. I really hacked her off when I had to correct her twice because she's new and also doesn't pay attention. When I told her I wanted the money mostly in 10s and 5s and she handed me a stack of mostly twenties it should not have surprised her when I handed half of them back and asked for 10s instead. It's called petty cash for a reason.
Then after a stop at the store to pickup ingredients for the Occupational Therapists' cooking group and some cleaner I got to spend a solid hour trying to get permanent marker off a $600 rolling dry erase board after some kids were left unattended and bored. When I say permanent I don't simply mean magic marker, I mean the stuff that is designed to mark equipment and withstand normal daily cleaning. The markers we use to write "Property Of..." on the ice pack covers and the transfer boards. The stuff mothers probably use to mark their kids underwear with before shipping them off to camp as an alternative to killing the little darlings.
I have tried Dry Erase Board Cleaner, rubbing alcohol, orange oil, stove cleaner, and finally concentrated Simple Green. A half a bottle of Simple Green got 75% of the stuff off. Enough that one side is usable for the most part. If anybody has a suggestion for something that will get off the marker without removing the surface of the board please share it.
I don't remember right now if I posted about the day of the three computers last week but short version is that my hard drive died, the replacement didn't work, and the new computer keeps coming up with missing stuff I need to do my job. As of today I still do not have the ability to print to one of the four printers I need.
Nobody needs 4 printers? Oh, yeah? I have a label printer of my very own and I'm linked in one way or another to a black and white printer and a color printer I share with my office mate as well as a printer in the outpatient clinic which is hooked into the corporate network. The black and white printer is faster and cheaper to use than the color printer, I need the color printer for flyers, banners, cards, and graphs, and one of the things that I have to print out to compile a monthly report will only print to a "network printer". We do not have a network printer in our office because they will only hook up a certain model to the corporate network and it costs something like 3 times what a regular printer costs so we get to walk to one of the three or four network printers scattered around the building instead.
Time to shut up and pass out now I think.
posted by Ranuel | 9:53 PM
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