Of course, it’s always one step forward for me and about four steps back. It’s never easy to be successful in my life. I had to go to the ER this morning due to continuing UTI symptoms. If you know me, that’s nothing new since I have a bladder issue that makes it seem like I have a UTI or kidney infection even though I won’t pop positive for an infection. And such was the case today; pseudo-UTI but this time I also had been having blood in my stool along with vomiting small clots of dark red blood with some stomach bile. I hadn’t ate anything in over twelve hours so I know for a fact it wasn’t stomach contents.

The worst thing about this whole ordeal is I still do not have health insurance so im paying for this f***ing sh!t out of pocket; hello 20K where are you?! I need you right about now. And if this wasn’t serious I wouldn’t have gone but the pain I am in is unbearable. They gave me a shot of torodal at the ER and that didn’t do anything. It was kind of okay though because if they had given me narcotics I would’ve had to wait around another hour plus since Kyle didn’t get off work until 12pm today so that he could have driven me home. So in hindsight, I didn’t have to wait around for him and I am now home safe and sound, but still in copious amounts of pain.

The doctor did admit that my white blood cell counts were starting to rise, as in, it might be a precursor to an infection so he said don’t fill or use this prescription quite yet unless it is dire or it gets much worse in a couple of days. So at least I wouldn’t have to immediately go back once it starts to get even more unbearable, at that point, I could just have that prescription ready and on standby.

They were fairly concerned and I had a CT scan done and that showed that I didn’t have a kidney stone or anything like that, so nothing major is wrong which is both good and bad news because why am I in all this flank and pelvic pain along with all these bladder UTI symptoms.

In other news, I start work training this Monday the 22nd for a new job. Essentially it’s caregiving again, I interviewed on Monday and essentially got the job just by showing up. My NAR (Nursing Assistant Registration) license is expired so I have to do all these other classes over again but it will be a good refresher. I will be working in a group home again but this time there is 6 clients, both males and females, all older population and all predominantly developmentally disabled and non verbal. The manager of the group home said this was an easy job; minimal needs for ADL’s, just some reminders to brush teeth, comb hair, etc. No one was violent or had abnormal behaviors and had minimal health needs, so in order for me to start at the group home, the company will pay for me to do some training and then I start there and I should be working like 8am-4pm with split days off: Sundays and Wednesdays.

I thought that was the best schedule because I get to see my husband almost every Wednesday because his normal days off of work are Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The lady manager said she tries to give everyone at least one weekend day off and so I got Sunday which is cool for football and church going, and who am I kidding? I don’t go to church nor will I now nor do I really watch football unless Kyle makes me lol. But I like that it’s right in the middle of the week that I get a day off for doctor’s appointments and whatnot. From what I could grasp, it seems simple and there are always more than one caregiver with you on your shift so I would never be alone. Definitely not what I am used to before with my sexual offender, developmentally delayed clients at the old group home I worked at. So this will be different, but a good different.

Hopefully now I can rest up this weekend and start work this Monday.

Until next time,

Dani