November 22, 2010

And now through the modern miracle of the computing age we travel back in time ...

SEWING!!!!! I got to do some sewing. Now I need to do some cleaning.

If I want to live a peaceful life do I really need to give up violent tv shows and movies?

November 24, 2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

November 19, 2010

It goes like this. In June a secretary that was on loan to another office came back to help us while the receptionist had physical therapy. She and I were talking and she went at length about how she doesn’t have a desk, she only gets to do phones and closed files, the drive is too long, on and on an on. I felt bad for her, I really did. So I started campaigning to get her back to the office on a regular basis.

So, I help her with the move back and give her things to do and get settled in and feel needed. I did not mind that she had trouble with her phone. Sometimes it just takes a while to get things set up. I know she had trouble with the “change your password every month” thing so I was willing to help her with that.

Little by little she has started to do the stupid act – again. One of the assignments I gave her was to take care of the fax and printer machines in the middle coy bay but to leave the copiers alone. She would take care of the machines but she would not leave the copiers alone. Repeatedly, I asked her nicely to please leave the copiers alone. She still insisted on filling the copiers. So one day I showed her how to fill the one drawer that she was filling wrong on the copiers. I explained that the machine needs it done this way to use the paper. I instructed, not showed, her how to fill the #1 drawer. Did she start doing that? Did she get the )!*@&$(%^ idea? No. Then one week I had to unload and reload the paper in the #1 drawer three times. So I wrote a note, nicely worded, that whoever was loading that drawer was doing it wrong and to please leave it alone.

So … a few days ago I was faxing some paperwork for a worker and this secretary gets in the middle of what I was doing and we had a little fight. Which ended up with her saying “that I (the secretary) don’t know how to fill a copier” and that “watching me (Martha) might be an intelligent thing to do.”

Yeah, I know, Bad Martha.

And what do I hear her saying to a new worker the next day??? I hear her complaining that – drum roll – all she gets to do is phones and closed files.

I am so )!*@&#^$(% pissed. Just absolutely completely and totally pissed.

November 16, 2010

As if Arizona didn’t have enough PR problems already. Now we have an animal shelter employee euthanize an honored canine veteran of the Afghan war. Really sad. This dog saved American military men that were being threatened by a suicide bomber. The dog, Target, was then brought to the US where she lived in AZ with a member of the unit that she had saved. The owner failed this dog by not having her micro-chipped and licensed. The animal shelter worker failed this dog by not following procedure. The county failed this dog by not having adequate supervision. I feel like we have all failed this noble creature.

Surgery – yes I will be having surgery on the nodule in my neck. I met the surgeon on Monday and she described the procedure. Instead of just trying to remove the nodule, roughly thumb size, she will be removing the whole right side and connecting band of the thyroid. She will also be checking my parathyroid glands since they are usually responsible for calcium blood levels. I gave them my FMLA packet and am now waiting to hear from them after they get approval from UHC. So, December sometime?

November 9, 2010

Fat lot of help that biopsy was. It is most likely on the thyroid but we have some indication that the parathyroid is involved. So, now I see a surgeon on Monday and go from there.

Scared myself witless for a while there. I decided to look up hypercalcemia and started with WebMD. Every reference they had to hypercalcemia involved cancer. Mayo Clinic was more positive with a description of hyperparathyroidism and citing cancer as a possible cause. Evidently, being female and postmenopausal make me more susceptible to parathyroid issues. Let’s hear it for old-fart ladies.

November 8, 2010

I see the doctor this afternoon to get my test results and to hopefully schedule my surgery. Yes, I am going to willfully allow someone to slice my neck open. YIKES!

And now I have a rash on my neck. NUTS!! I can just imagine what Dr Phillips is going to say. No possibility of surgery until that is cleared up.

) ! * @ & # ( $ ^ %

November 5, 2010

The eyes are still in an uproar.

Rosalyn called today. She says she is home from the hospital and feeling OK. The nodule was in fact cancer and she is very thankful that she insisted on having it removed. She told me that when I have this surgery I should plan on two weeks minimum because I’ll need it. Don’t know about that. We’ll see what happens. I know that I need to prepare to have a bag of quilting with me in the hospital. The last time I was in a hospital I went nuts with nothing to do so I got up and walked around. I think the nursing staff got tired of me wandering around the hospital.

November 4, 2010

There is a story on the news today about City of Phoenix workers taking out their trash at the end of their work day. What am I supposed to think about that? Is the economy really THAT bad?

November 3, 2010

OK, wearing make up again today. My eyes are still a little sensitive but that might be from the foundation. So tomorrow will be Cover Girl day.

There were many changes in the political landscape yesterday. Democrats are out of the House of Representatives and Republicans are in. And in another two years the Senate might become Republican as well. The Tea Party movement has been heard.

November 2, 2010

When I got home yesterday, my eyes hurt so bad. I had put on make up, including mascara, in the morning. My eyes were teary all day long. I put several eye drops in each eye when I got home. Today I bought some “hypoallergenic” mascara. Hopefully it works better.

I voted today. Did you?

November 1, 2010

I am not sure how I am going to sleep this Winter. I am too hot to sleep some of the night now.