We're Going to Washington DC for Our 30th

With Arvil's and my 30th Anniversary coming up in July and unable to get off for it, we have decided to go to Washington DC in May. Arvil told me if I didn't make some type of reservations, we were going to be painting the house during that week. So at the computer I went, sitting and looking at vacation plans for hours. I was finally successful. I was tossed out, rejected and told the price went up each time I tried to confirm our plans. Well needless to say, even with all my frustration, I persevered and kept at it. Now we're on our way come Mother's Day...

I'm not sure exactly what we'll go see or do, but we're game for almost anything. We would also like to see the LDS Temple and possibly do some sessions.

My nephew, Brian and his wife Janice aren't to far from DC, so hopefully we can schedule time to travel to see them and Brian's mother, Linda.

Now that the stress of purchasing the trip is over, now the fun will begin for planning what we'll do. Arvil's sister Karen and her husband Dale went this past year and had beautiful pictures and only good things to say. Arvil said he's looking forward to going and seeing the many sights. One thing I can say is, "I hope it doesn't rain". The last time I was in DC in 1975, it poured buckets of rain and we were drying our clothes and hair in the Smithsonian's restrooms. One fond memory is the 1st time I actually saw fireflies when we had came back to Baltimore where my brother Mark and his wife Sandy were living after they were 1st married. The cute little bugs captured my attention and I'd love to see them again, plus other things too.

Being Sick

Well, In my last post, I stated that I was going to have a great trip out to WA/OR to see the kids after having several days of training at work.
Needless to say, the weather started to turn off bad and it's a joke at work that every time I travel it either snows or rains.
Throughout the day on Thursday, my co-workers kept a close eye on the weather for me and joked about how I would be leaving the next day and would have the worst of it storm ahead of me. Listening to us laugh and joke about it, my boss knew that I was exhausted from training, I had overtime and would be leaving for the week-end, since I would be working nights once I returned. So she said for me to take Friday off, get a good nights sleep and tackle the roads during the early hours instead of the late hours. I thought this was going to be the great to get out of town early...
To my dismay, by the time 8 pm Thursday night rolled around for me to start packing and getting the car ready, I was feeling worse...All I wanted was to go to bed. I had no energy, my head was congested, I had a headache up my right side of my face and I couldn't breath very well.
Needless to say, when I awoke early on Friday, I didn't feel like going anywhere, let alone driving in the bad weather. So I called up Mom and Pamela and broke the news that I wouldn't be coming. Then for the next couple of days, I stayed in bed or very close to home. My week-end was a complete bust. Even trying to attend church was hopeless, My sinuses would not calm down and my headache wouldn't leave. NO I DIDN'T GO TO THE DOCTOR...THEY WOULD HAVE JUST TOLD ME TO DO SINUS WASHES AND GET SOME REST...which I did do...Finally it dawned on me to use my rice pack from Karen and heat it up, so I did and draped it all over my face. I was actually able to sleep. Within three times of heating it up, my plugged sinuses started to open and the headache lessen. What a great help it was.
So after a week to 10 days of the crud hanging on, I finally start feeling back to my old self and things are going good. Pamela and Jon decide to come for Spring Break and see us after all, plus they were all healthy too, come to find out, they were sick when I was suppose to come over, so if I wasn't sick, I would have been later. So they came, we played, we visited, we ate, we sat around, and had fun with the kids. They left on Monday and Monday afternoon, Guess What...? I start feeling cruddy again, plus I'm in the middle of a week of training switchboard people and a new TPD (Temp person) for our department. There is no way I can call in sick and postpone all this training. So I dope myself up and make it through the week. Today, at about 10:30, I told my boss that I was taking my gal to train with another person and I was headed home. I really felt yukky, so to home I came and bed I went. Arvil was so good to be quite for me to sleep, but after 5 hours, I still felt terrible. My head is so stuffed and the headache won't go away again. I think it's the headache that stops me from doing anything. Since it pounds behind my eyes and my ears start feeling like they have an infection too, but I know it's just the sinus pressure.
I'll just be happy to have Spring come, so I can get outside and enjoy the air, YET, ON THE OTHER HAND, ALLERGIES WILL START UP TOO...I believe this might be a no win situation and I'm going to have to learn how to deal with being sick and stuffed up.

WELL I MUST BE TO SICK TO TYPE A DANG BLOG POST! I'VE BEEN TRYING TO ADD A PICTURE OF CUTE GERMS, BUT THE SITE WON'T ALLOW ME TO DO IT AND I'M TIRED OF TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT...MY SMARTS AREN'T ALL FIRING ON THE CORRECT CYLINDERS. BETTER LUCK TO ME NEXT TIME...

Training

Well, I should say that I'm very tired and glad to be able to catch my breath for a minute or two. I have been training 4 different people at work. Day time and Night time hours. My body isn't sure what time I should be getting up, but I do know that when I do get in my bed, I really really enjoy it. As Arvil would say, "OOOHHH BABY!"

CMC opened up a new area called the Montana Breast Health at the start of this week. It is very nice and will make the women very comfortable when they have to come for procedures. With this happening, two more people had to be given a quick lesson in registration so they can cover the registration clerk while she's on break or early in the morning. Needless to say, I was told today that the gal I trained 1st was so overwhelmed that she doesn't feel comfortable to register the patients yet, so she takes them down to the ER registration clerk to do.

With the new center being built in the old ER entrance and waiting area, we received a new entrance to our Emergency, plus two new night girls to train. Training went fairly well, except for sitting on a stool for 12 1/2 hours in a tight, cramped work area. I was glad to be done there.
One of the girls came from the Switchboard, so I've been training a new replacement. The Switchboard girls do registrations on expectant Mothers and Babies, needless to say, she was a little slower catching on then the last 2 or 3 of their employees.

I believe tomorrow will be my first day in 4 or 5 weeks to be able to sit at my desk and do my other responsibilities that I have. I have a stack of registrations errors that must be close to 8 to 10 inches high. I have to go through them and pick out the ones that have errors that would cause a claim to deny, then enter the information into a spreadsheet for the person that made the error. This could be quite time consuming.

When I'm done with that, I get to start training another person on registrations that only received a little training to do his job, but has moved up into another position that will require more knowledge of registrations.

After that, I need to go back to the Oncology/Infusion Center to make sure the two girls I trained there at the 1st of the year are doing okay. It's hard to get everywhere.

It will teach me to think that everything will get back to normal or back to a routine, but because someone thinks they need some time off, I'll be working 3 nights in the ER next week. But good things do happen, since I'll have my hours within 3 days, I get to have Monday and Thursday off. So I'm headed out to see my mom and dad and get a fix of grandchildren. My youngest grandson turns 1 on Sunday March 8. My other grandson thinks that it's been long enough between visits and he's determined to have me visit, or he's coming to me, whether or not mom approves. So I'll be off and traveling.