Surreal Week

Tuesday

So last week was a pretty surreal week for me. Starting on Tuesday with a trip to Rolla with the rest of the admin staff in the division, for our annual UM-wide campus facilities meeting between all four campuses. We normally hold them at Columbia, since we’re the most centrally located between the four campuses, but suggestions were made at the last meeting that a change of scenery would be nice. And it was. Rolla’s campus is significantly smaller than ours, and very specialized, but it was still a nice little campus to check out. Aside from the drive back through the downpour. Thankfully, I wasn't driving.

Thursday

Then on Thursday, we were supposed to have our Administrative Professionals Appreciation Celebration (a trip to the park) given by our project managers… but we were rained in, as it were. However, it was probably a good thing we weren’t out at the park, anyway, since one of my coworkers proceeded to have a grand-mal seizure here at work that afternoon. She was rushed to the E.R., and they discovered she has a mass a bit smaller than a ping-pong ball in her brain. Fortunately, they think it’s benign, and it’s close to the skull… so she’s in surgery today for them to remove it. Of course, being the workaholic that she is, she’s been working from home… pretty much all the way up to her surgery time. *shaking head* But then, as the Office Manager mentioned this morning, work is probably her outlet. Especially from fussing about the surgery too much.

Friday

Friday, I took the day off for VA appointments all day. It started with getting stopped for speeding, since I was thoroughly distracted by trying to get the hospital ASAP so I could get my fasting labs drawn and I could finally eat… I was starving to death! So, of course, I completely forgot to slow down in front of the middle school… even though there were no children anywhere in the vicinity. By 9 am, most are in class. But that doesn’t matter when there’s a sign that says “slow down”, and I was stopped… right in front of a bus stop. So, when the bus came around, and I was waiting and waiting and waiting for the cop to finally come back with my license, I was treated to a good chewing-out by the bus driver. That was fun. So 5 hours later (or maybe it was only 10 minutes), the cop finally came back and handed me my license and a warning. Thankfully.

The VA hospital was good and crowded, so everything went at a snail’s pace… and when I finally got in to see the Neurologist for my migraine appt., the man had to have been the most computer-illiterate person I’d met in my life. Hunt-and-peck would be a kind term for his typing, and he kept getting himself booted from the system. AND he was extremely condescending. So far, I’ve met with three different neurologists for these appointments, and all but one have had attitudes I’m not overly thrilled with. But oh well. One good thing about seeing a new doc every time is that each has a new idea to try for my migraines. Not that any of them have worked, of course, but one can never stop trying.

Amway, in between and after all of my appointments, Mom and I went to lunch, then ran some errands. I wanted to be able to spend the entire weekend going absolutely nowhere and doing absolutely nothing. I DID manage to not go anywhere, but didn’t have as good of luck at doing nothing. But it was a nice weekend, regardless. My weekends have been so hectic recently… between visits with IHOP Buddy, and cat/house sitting for the folks while they were in Florida, and finishing up my project at home, this was my first opportunity to just relax and enjoy.