VegSeekingFit wrote:Hi Heidi!!!
I am so sorry that you are having this situation to deal with... both the pain, etc. and your work situation. Hoping things are resolved shortly and that you are back on your feet to feeling great!!!
You are such a constant and positive presence here on the forum. So glad to see your post... Hang in there... things are bound to get better, yes???
Best,
Stephanie
Aww Stephanie, you're the best!
I actually sat down last week and had a bit of a post in progress but forgot to submist it LOL
Well Thanksgiving is behind me, where I did have a piece of dark meat to prove I'm not a vegan
and also got McDougall's Revenge because I had some of my mom's world class clam dip which main ingredient is cream cheese. MISTAKE. Ugh. Also had some pecan pie which is right off plan, innit? But eating back to normal really fast after the holiday.
I think the underlying issue for everything right now is lack of deep sleep. I'm sleeping every night...like, no flat out insomnia...but tossing and turning a lot and pretty sure I'm not getting much deep sleep at all. I need to fix that. Wylie suggested satin pj bottoms, to make it easier to turn over in bed. I wore them last night and it is easier to turn over but I still woke up at 2:00 am and moved to the couch recliner. My sleep app/apple watch tells me that I got 7 hrs. 26 minutes last night.
Whatever. Supposedly 4% of that was deep sleep, and that's what it looks like for many weeks now. Minimal deep sleep since my first surgery at the end of June. SO...now to figure out how to get there, right? I gotta get that figured out, because it's making everything less happy. Depression, fatigue, irritability. Googling it reveals that binaural delta music helps. I'm going to try that before adding melatonin to my regimen. Don't want to take supplements. But I do want to feel rested when I wake up, and that isn't happening.
Binaural beats it is. Let's give it a try, eh?
Post surgery, six week mark for my right leg. Doing okay. I've got this habit of saying "woo hoo! having a marvelous day, let's max out the exercises and take the stairs a half dozen times! woot!" and then paying for it the next day or two. This is something they told me could happen, and if I overdo, to rest the next day...so I rested for a couple of days after T'giving and am still on half shifts at my job. Tomorrow is my six week check up and we'll see what the doc says.
Still eating only til satiated, and mostly not nibbling between meals. Eating on plan, though processed might creep in now and then in the form of bread or pasta. Hopefully I'll have the gumption to do kitchen stuff and make some soup this weekend.
REALLY ready to have this all behind me as a dim memory
taking my walks and doing my stuff with no issues. Won't that be nice!
Oh...update on the leave thing. Finally the case worker for my leave claim did find that documentation (she was able to look for it in the morning, but didn't do so again on the day that it came in) and I got a lump sum amount in a check. Mailed to me. Now I'm waiting to find out if the request for half shifts came through. I had the dr office email it directly to her so she didn't have to go to the trouble of checking the faxes.
I've emailed her twice to find out if she got the paperwork, and no reply. SMH
anyway. I'll be back to working full shifts soon and won't have to worry about leave pay or any other thing, AND I found out the my employer is dropping the current leave management agency and going with a different one. Hopefully they'll do better.