G'day, all.
With daylight saving here now, I'm finding that it's very late before I get to post in your morning thread.
I've had another moderately busy day. At least I got some sleep last night - had to take a sleeping pill for it, though. I HATE being so badly stressed as this. I'll probably post about it in Watercooler in a day or two, but I'm nervous about posting information which could be accidentally searched by an opponent.
After sorting through emails again, I headed out to get an ultrasound on my leg, urgent because of the possibilty of DVT. Turns out it's not a clot after all, but torn muscles. A number of micro-tears in several places.
I saw my neurologist right afterwards, he said I have to keep exercising and not let the pain stop me. Since I've been needing to do a lot of walking anyway despite the pain, I felt the advice wasn't needed. Still, I guess it's good to get endorsement from an expert to keep doing what I'm doing.
difficult child 3 & I are heading in to his school tomorrow. I asked him to call his teachers whhile I was out today to set it up for tomorrow. If he didn't - well, I still have packed a lot of work for him, plus his completed work to hand in. It saves postage to personally deliver it, besides he needs to collect more work from some of his teachers. I'll be in a meeting most of the day but it won't be too formal, not this time. So difficult child 3 can be set up nearby on his laptop, I can keep checking in on him plus even if he didn't set it up, once I get there I'll notify his teachers that he's there and they will drop in on him.
On the way home I have a couple of errands to run and then hopefully we'll be home in time for him to go to tennis. I've got food chopped up and measured out so in the morning I simply throw Mixture A plus bag of meat into the crockpot and switch it on. Dinner will be slow-cooking all day.
I'm in the process of extricating myself from some volunteer work gone sour and reclaiming some of my life, heading in a more appreciative direction. And to that end - I got a phone call tonight. "Look at page 22 of the local paper!"
I looked - and it's an article on a presentation I did a few weeks ago, it quotes me all through the article and sings my praises in exactly the field I've copped flak for over the last few days. Vindication! I'm going to copy the article and send it to a few people along with my resignation letter. "Sorry, folks, you not only don't appreciate me, you accuse me of dishonesty. I'm clearly valued elsewhere so I'm moving on to where I'm valued and needed, not merely taken for granted."
I don't think I'll need any sleeping pill tonight. My blood pressure is finally returning to normal. My sense of perspective is sharpening. And the sense of relief is palpable.
Enjoy your Tuesday.
Marg