It is UN-natural-e.

[fredericks]

93 degrees at 10:37PM. Does not compute.

The new job, it has been begun by me. We're on week two of training, and things look both less and more stressful than the hospital. There's a helluva lot of paper/computer work required for each case, and I'm basically taking on the role of the case manager for my patients, meaning I need to be coordinated and organized and on top of things. Eep.

No, I think I'll be fine. It'll just take a little adjustment time for me to go from the bedside mindset to the visiting nurse mindset. And, according to one of my co-workers, the area I've been assigned is supposed to be *sweet* (as in, relatively safe to traverse, lots of places/things to see/do, nice patient population). If the manager doesn't change her mind about where to put me it'd seem I've lucked out.

The only shitty thing about the last week or so is that I"ve come down with some sort of flu/consumption/ebola virus-type thing. I presented with elevated temp, body aches, and fatigue during the middle part of last week, and then my body decided to slip in a phlegmy nose/upper respiratory tract during the end of last week and well into now. Up to yesterday the fever would sort of sneak up on me (viral ninja!) towards the middle of the day, leaving me with a definite flushed face feeling along with a hacking cough (everything is just stuck there in my lower throat, dammit! so frustrating). I'll have to pick up a cough syrup tomorrow, but hopefully the fever part has passed. I really hope I don't have mono, because wtf! I managed to go 1.5 years on the other job without a friggin' sniffle, I'm on this one for not even a full day and I'm laid out? And I won't have insurance until July 1st, so getting a check-up is out of the question.

Tomorrow? 97 degrees for the high. In the city, with the subway lines right there? It's gonna feel like it's 100+. And Con-Edison has already started spazzing with the power (random blackouts in the Bronx, voltage cutbacks on the East Side)...joy.

Comments

[orpheus78.livejournal.com]

It sounds like you have teh bubonic plaugue. I am pretty sure I have it as well. ;)

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

What, you're trying to tell me cuddling with random tick-infested rats was a bad idea?

[orpheus78.livejournal.com]

Uh huh, but I figured that you being a psychology major has made you susceptible to playing with rats.

At least, that's the excuse that I use to justify my cuddlin' with tick infested rats. ;)

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

*grin* I named my rat Cletus. He was awful at pressing the level. Or I was awful at training him. Either way we fell out. No love lost between us. Obviously, this is how he's chosen to repay me.

[orpheus78.livejournal.com]

I was afraid to name any of the rats that I worked with because I didn't want to get attached. I wanted to be objective and all. Lol!

[captainschlumpy.livejournal.com]

oh no! paperwork, ugh. I hates it, I do. I hope you start feeling better. colds in the summer are the worst. Sorry I missed your call last night. I went upstairs to partake in the ac in my room and left the phones downstairs. didn't realize until I went to let the pooch out one last time before bed. I'll ring you today if I can!

[candicelbj.livejournal.com]

happy birthday

i hope youre feeling better :(

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the birthday wishes. I'm still with a bunch of phlegm in my throat, but no more fever. Score! :)

[karenjeane.livejournal.com]

Hello! I added you in the science fiction friending meme.

I hope your flu improves . . . The last two jobs I've started I was sick the first week. It sucks.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Howdy there! Thanks for the heads up. :) Nice to meet you.

Was it a flu? I have no idea. Felt like a bulldozer. But there's been marked improvement. Not that I believe in such things, but I hope it's not a sign or anything ::cue shifty eyes::