Alive again!

[llcoolvad]

For the first time in a month I finally have a little energy! It's been so long since I had the energy to do anything at all. This last week has been tough because I was taking Cipro for my pneumonia and the side effects were very draining — they included extreme dizziness, mild anxiety, and very bad leg cramps. I hate Cipro now. Hate.

Anyway, I finished with it on Sunday, so I woke up today feeling pretty good. Managed to get the kitchen cleaned up, my room cleaned up, grocery shopping done, recycleables brought to the city yard, and now I am hammering out loads of laundry. Feels good to be mildly productive. It's been so long since I could do more than the bare minimum.

I just went through my Kindle and realized that I've read a bunch of books that I haven't reviewed yet at greenstreetbks, so that might be next on my agenda. Then I need to clean the bathroom top to bottom. Then I need to update some lists and figure out what's next. So many things to do! I want to get the house under control before my surgery next month (whenever they schedule it for). And I just got added to a team at work that's going to require a lot of attention for the next few months, so it's busy everywhere.

I am kinda sad because I only have 11 days left of time off for the year. I hate using it up being sick. If one week is devoted to post-surgery recuperation, that just leaves me one week for fun! Feh. I know, I know, most people get 2 weeks total per year. I should be grateful. But I really really wanted to go a few places this summer. And now I probably can't. Sigh!

But anyway, it feels good to be alive again!

Comments

[superplin.livejournal.com]

Yay for productivity! When even laundry feels good, you know you've been down too long.

I've taken Cipro, too, in nuclear doses. (My doctor said, "I'm going to give you the highest dosage I can without killing you. I hope." Very funny.) So I'm intimately familiar with how it knocks one assward. Congratulations on putting it behind you.

[elevengirl.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're better! I hate Cipro, too, and I've only ever taken it once.

[llcoolvad.livejournal.com]

I will never take it willingly again -- unless there is NOTHING else...

[jostajam.livejournal.com]

Glad you're feeling better! Cipro makes me feel like someone is jamming three fingers under my sternum constantly. Yogurt helped with that...

[llcoolvad.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I hate it with the heat of 1000 suns. I think my right leg is damaged a bit from the leg cramps (I'm guessing tendinitis, because it's really really really sore now).

Anyway, good riddance to bad medicine!

[kicking-k.livejournal.com]

Glad you're feeling better, but the problem with the time off sounds deeply annoying.

Sick leave doesn't work like that in the UK - it's totally independent from "annual leave", and most people who work fulltime get around 25 days of that (so five working weeks). On the other hand I don't think we have as many public holidays (and when we do, companies are allowed to ignore them if they want), but it still seems as though there's no comparison between the systems. In addition, my work has "special leave" for if you need to take care of dependents, which is pretty good from my point of view.

I suppose our system is open to abuse, but it does seem fairer.

[llcoolvad.livejournal.com]

Yeah, at my company for my years of service (over 7) we get 26 days of paid time off (PTO) which has to include sick and vacation (so healthy people do better than sick people). We also get 10 holidays. To slightly mitigate the PTO/sick, if needed we get short-term disability, which kicks in if you're admitted to the hospital for more than a week and pays you 100% of your pay for 2 weeks, and then 60% of your pay thereafter up to 13 weeks. Eventually, if you're really in serious trouble they switch you to long-term disability, and that's the 60% rate too. That can actually go up until you're 65.

Your system does seem better!