Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Off To Work I Go

Some good news! My Dad went home from the hospital on Sunday, although he had a rough first day at home because of a plastic IV needle bending and ripping his arm open enough to have him bleeding like a stuck pig (he won't like that analogy...)! Hopefully things are going better. He is doing really well, actually. My DS was to be coming home from the hospital today, so that means she has made a lot of progress, too, although she will be in pain for awhile yet.

And I am back at work. I have an overload this year so I have 6 classes. It is really hard to fit everything in with that one less planning time. Of course, today was the first day that we actually had an entire day that was normal, without shortened schedules due to homeroom things, and also picture taking during all of my classes. I think I will be doing a lot of working lunches this year! Also taking more home. Well, I knew that when I accepted the overload, but never having done it before gets you into things without realizing the extent of it. I'll live, but I sure am tired! And that is even without the Dept. Head stuff! Most of the students seem really nice. Only a couple of boys I will have to watch (I know who to separate now!)

I did go to the Dr. last week. Most of my problem was "an acute flare-up of TMJ." I am on anti-inflamatory for a month to take care of that. He also said I probably had a bit of sinusitis, so I am also on antibiotics. He told me it wasn't "catchy" BTW.

I had a big fight with my niece. She called my dad's room when I was there and asked for sn update on her mother. While I was talking to her I mentioned that I was going to go to the Dr. the next day and she flipped and told me I had to wear a mask if I went into her mother's (my sister's) room. I thought that, OK, I'll ask the nurse about it and that if they thought I needed to do that, I would. But then she started badgering me to "promise" her I would wear a mask. I told her that I would never do anything to hurt my sister, and not to worry about it. At one time she even had the gall to say, "Do you understand how much stress my family is going through right now?" (I wasn't aware that (1) I wasn't part of the family, and (2) I was under as much as she was, and she doesn't really know what real stress is!) Well, she kept it up so finally I said, "YES!!! I PROMISE!!! NOW ARE YOU HAPPY?" A few minutes later another sister went down to see DS and a nurse ran up and asked her if she was me. He then told her that the niece had called (immediately after I hung up from talking to her, apparently) to tell them I was not allowed to go in her mother's room without a mask. See, she didn't get it. The problem wasn't wearing the mask, the trouble was her condescending attitude toward me, insisting I "promise" like a child, and also the fact that she doesn't trust me. I am still pissed off about it. It really upset my mother and dad, too. I left to go home right after, without visiting DS, and I haven't been back since. I call about dad about every other day, and have called DS once. I just don't know what sparks will fly when I see my niece again. If I call her a self centered, controlling bitch do you think she will get my drift?

We took our DGD to camp with us this weekend, and had a really nice time with her. Our DS came up on Sunday and stayed overnight, and Labor Day with us, too. We were at a big Labor Day party across the way from our trailer on Sunday. Everyone in our "loop" was there. Fun! Then the next day, those of us who know them well, because we live right there and do lots together, were invited for an "eat the leftovers" meal. It was good then, too! We have such a nice group of friends there. We are lucky to have wound up where we did in the park, with so many nice people around us. I can hardly wait for the weekend again!