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mistressofmuses) wrote2021-04-25 07:26 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2021-04-25 07:26 pm
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I like... forgot yesterday happened. I thought Friday was yesterday, and forgot everything about yesterday. Weird.
The trip down to the other office wasn't the worst. My manager did come get me in the morning, which I still appreciate. A driver called out of that office, "because he had a rough day yesterday, and just needed a day off after that". And like... while I want to be sympathetic, at the same time, I can't even imagine. Like... apparently a parent yelled at him after a student failed a test. That sucks. But... I've worked retail/food service. I still work customer service. While it isn't truly a *daily* occurrence, I definitely get screamed at an awful lot. No one would ever let me just... not come in because of it.
Also, fuck you bro, the next available appointment at that office is in fucking July. That isn't his fault, but causing us to reschedule more people when we have nothing to offer them for more than two months is shitty.
The co-owner of the company was the on-call emergency contact, so she was the one who took his call, and she took the rescheduling pretty seriously. But when I mentioned "yeah, the next available isn't for more than two months" she was like... surprised Pikachu about it. Like... what did you think we all meant when every center manager has complained about how understaffed we are!?
Pretty tired today, though. Not excited to be at the busiest center we have tomorrow, though I don't think there's actually *much* scheduled. Still throws off my week, and change is bad, lol.
I'm looking forward to getting my second Covid vax for many reasons. The main one is, of course, starting to ramp up to my full protection from this virus. But also it's two days off of work. I might spend those two days feeling like I have the flu and wanting to just die, but at least I'll be doing it at home.
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Sounds like things are still moving in the right direction for my grandmother. The dialysis seems to be helping, removing fluid and improving some of her markers of kidney function. (Which is not actually fixing her kidneys - but it does mean the dialysis is doing a decent job of replicating what her kidneys are no longer doing.)
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Alex might be coming down with some sort of sinus thing. He says he had a low fever on and off most of the day, and just doesn't feel well. So that's no fun.
A few days ago, he also had a allergic-ish reaction... to spinach. He made a salad, grabbed a piece of spinach that fell out of the bowl, and his mouth started to swell up.
He does have an anaphylactic reaction to tree nuts, and a less-extreme allergy to cilantro (I get the soap-taste gene, but he likes it and is allergic.) But he's never reacted to something like spinach. He took a benadryl, and once the reaction had calmed, tried something else out of the salad, and had a weaker, but still obvious reaction. It never approached epi-pen levels, and the benadryl did fortunately take care of it.
Due to a couple people I follow online, I remembered some stuff about histamine response that isn't *truly* an allergy to something specific, despite the similarity of the response. And... sure enough, spinach is a high-histamine food.
The next day he tried again, and was fine. While he does not want to try a no- or low-histamine diet (which is a difficult diet to maintain, because it's so restrictive and often expensive to maintain), trying to be mindful of what things are high-histamine and avoiding too many in combination is probably a thing we should start doing.
This is the first time this has happened that we know of, though it's possible in the past he's chalked an apparent weak reaction to something up to "cross contamination" when it was actually this.
While some people deal with histamine reactions that are so frequent or severe that they HAVE to go on strict diets just to not die, that's not where he's at, and I hope it never reaches that level.
So THAT'S a fun new thing to deal with.
The trip down to the other office wasn't the worst. My manager did come get me in the morning, which I still appreciate. A driver called out of that office, "because he had a rough day yesterday, and just needed a day off after that". And like... while I want to be sympathetic, at the same time, I can't even imagine. Like... apparently a parent yelled at him after a student failed a test. That sucks. But... I've worked retail/food service. I still work customer service. While it isn't truly a *daily* occurrence, I definitely get screamed at an awful lot. No one would ever let me just... not come in because of it.
Also, fuck you bro, the next available appointment at that office is in fucking July. That isn't his fault, but causing us to reschedule more people when we have nothing to offer them for more than two months is shitty.
The co-owner of the company was the on-call emergency contact, so she was the one who took his call, and she took the rescheduling pretty seriously. But when I mentioned "yeah, the next available isn't for more than two months" she was like... surprised Pikachu about it. Like... what did you think we all meant when every center manager has complained about how understaffed we are!?
Pretty tired today, though. Not excited to be at the busiest center we have tomorrow, though I don't think there's actually *much* scheduled. Still throws off my week, and change is bad, lol.
I'm looking forward to getting my second Covid vax for many reasons. The main one is, of course, starting to ramp up to my full protection from this virus. But also it's two days off of work. I might spend those two days feeling like I have the flu and wanting to just die, but at least I'll be doing it at home.
-
Sounds like things are still moving in the right direction for my grandmother. The dialysis seems to be helping, removing fluid and improving some of her markers of kidney function. (Which is not actually fixing her kidneys - but it does mean the dialysis is doing a decent job of replicating what her kidneys are no longer doing.)
-
Alex might be coming down with some sort of sinus thing. He says he had a low fever on and off most of the day, and just doesn't feel well. So that's no fun.
A few days ago, he also had a allergic-ish reaction... to spinach. He made a salad, grabbed a piece of spinach that fell out of the bowl, and his mouth started to swell up.
He does have an anaphylactic reaction to tree nuts, and a less-extreme allergy to cilantro (I get the soap-taste gene, but he likes it and is allergic.) But he's never reacted to something like spinach. He took a benadryl, and once the reaction had calmed, tried something else out of the salad, and had a weaker, but still obvious reaction. It never approached epi-pen levels, and the benadryl did fortunately take care of it.
Due to a couple people I follow online, I remembered some stuff about histamine response that isn't *truly* an allergy to something specific, despite the similarity of the response. And... sure enough, spinach is a high-histamine food.
The next day he tried again, and was fine. While he does not want to try a no- or low-histamine diet (which is a difficult diet to maintain, because it's so restrictive and often expensive to maintain), trying to be mindful of what things are high-histamine and avoiding too many in combination is probably a thing we should start doing.
This is the first time this has happened that we know of, though it's possible in the past he's chalked an apparent weak reaction to something up to "cross contamination" when it was actually this.
While some people deal with histamine reactions that are so frequent or severe that they HAVE to go on strict diets just to not die, that's not where he's at, and I hope it never reaches that level.
So THAT'S a fun new thing to deal with.
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Food restrictions suck. I hope he doesn't have to deal with that.
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I hope not, too. The fact it's only happened once is good, but there's also always a first time, so we'll have to keep an eye on it.
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I'd never heard of high-histamine foods. Good luck with that.
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I think it's a pretty uncommon thing for people to have reactions to, but it's scary that it basically induces allergy symptoms, even though it's not the food itself causing it. I'm hoping it was a weird quirk and it doesn't become a persistent issue.
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And same. I know that really I'm less mad at this guy taking time away than I am that I just have to suck up my bad days. (Though calling in morning of is crappy to do to your coworkers.) Unfortunately, I've already taken about as much time off as I can - the trip to visit my grandmother took up some, and I've had to take off the days for my covid shots.
I do have a few days of time off still saved, but I don't want to use it in case I need it for an emergency. Ideally, I also want to save some up so that Alex and I can do something over the summer, but tbh I don't know what we'll be able to do.
When we came back from New Mexico, as short a trip as that was, I felt a lot better for a couple weeks, but that's already worn off and I'm back to burned out. :/ I hate that I get so exhausted when objectively I know that my job isn't really that difficult. It just wears on me, because I always feel like I'm on the edge of getting written up or fired for some shortcoming.