Last Day of Work

Today was my last day of work. My phone and email have been updated to reflect that I am out of the office until further notice. While I am ready to be off work and I can’t say that I really worked that hard today, it was harder to wrap things up than I thought. Not from a physical perspective. I did bust my butt M-Th of this week and got most everything done. But, from an emotional one. I like my work and the people that I work with. I can’t imagine not being in contact with them for a few months. Maybe this will change after the baby gets here. I can’t tell you how many people called, IM’d, or emailed to wish me luck and send me off today. I really had nothing else that really needed to be done and still had a hard time stepping away.

On the other hand, I still have LOTS to do before the kid arrives. On the top of my list is making a Target run for things like diapers and wipes. I also had getting a digital camera on the list, but got an email today from my administrative assistant saying … hint hint…wink wink...don’t get a digital camera, get only baby things. Looks like my company is going to buy one for me. How great is that?

My OB apt. yesterday went well. I’m still at 2 cm, but was 80% effaced. My body is getting ready for the big event and the prediction is sooner rather than later. Later could still be a week or two. Did I mention that I am almost positive that I lost my mucus plug last week? The OB thought so too. I was scheduled to see my OB, but ended up seeing the new OB, Dr. T, instead. She is nice, but just seems a bit nervous and new. Another visit or two and I should have her up to speed. LOL. My blood pressure was a bit high (140/79 I think) so they had me lay on my left side and checked it again about 20 min. later. I’m still a bit confused by this. I guess it is the lower number that they worry about for pre-eclempsia and stuff. Mine lower number has been consistent and normal. It is the upper number that fluctuates from time to time. When I ask what could cause that I was told visiting the dr./being nervous (yeah, not likely), walking up a flight of stairs, being hot. Okay, could have been the being hot one. But, if it isn’t a cause for concern, why retest it? I must figure this out at some point. I still don’t really get this whole blood pressure thing. Anyway, it did go down and I was told not to worry. Not worried, but curious.

Anyway, I saw my dr. in the hall on the way out. She was in scrubs and looking pretty stressed out. It was probably better that I didn’t see her even though I am a bit more comfortable with her at this point.

After that, Lucky had her last radiation treatment. She seems to have handled it well like she has all of the other treatments. I just bring her in monthly for monitoring to make sure she stays in remission. They said I can bring her to my local vet (closer) most of the time and only bring her to the specialist every third month as long as the labs are sent over. What a relief! Hoping and praying that the kid and I have a long life ahead with her and that she is one of the 25% that stays in remission permanently and dies of natural/other causes.

All and all, things are still going well here. I have lots of projects that I want to get done. I am going to think of the next few weeks as vacation and not “leave”. It is probably good that my cousin will still be here to keep me from major work withdrawals. I am now stepping away from the computer. I am letting this go. And, it is harder than I thought it would be.