Weekend report

Well, not too much going on around here. Went over to Orlando to see my step-brother & his family on Friday after work. We played at the resort's pool for about an hour & half. Got a little pink in the face but nothing else. We went to dinner at Tony Roma's. It was a very good meal. Then we went to play Put-put golf. We were dong well until the storm moved in. The lightening was fierce & the rain extremely heavy.We sat around watching it rain for about an hour. It finally lightened up a little so we could get to the car. The ride home from Orlando was beutiful also. The way the the lightening crawled across the sky and in & out of the clouds. It was like a beautiful white natural firework show. Very breathe taking & relaxing.

The retirement party was very nice. Lots of high carbohyrate foods. The food was great. It seemed like everyone was having a good time. People were learning how to swing dance. Dr. Wagaman is a pretty good dance. Dr. Inserillo is an extremely talented dancer. Lynn & her husband were having a blast cutting a rug.

Update

Well, I gues it is time for an update since I have been extremely lazy. Well the truth is I have been very busy. I have lost a total of 13 pounds & 23 inches since I have started on the Inches-A-Weigh program. I am in about a size 10-12 from a 18. Yeah, that just means there will be less of me to attend the class reunion in August.

On May 27th, I had a bone spur removed from my left shoulder. Which means they have been working to get my shoulder back into shape & strong again. It is a good time to do it because it was starting to get difficult to hold even a newborn for any length of time. It is healing very nicely. Dr. Woodward did an awesome job in the surgery department. I must think Julie, Linda & Dennis for ever thing they have been in the rehabilitation department.

In the guy department, Same stuff different year. The single ones do not want to commit to a relationship. The married ones only want to run around on their wives. Why can they not get it through there head that I do not mess with married men. If you wanted me then why did you not make a move then???? your loss..

Other then that I have not been up to much. Just going to the circus I call a job. It is changes & more changes. People leaving, new positions being created & the normal Drama. That is another nights entry.

April 21, 2004

Weight Update

This weeks weigh in: 3 pounds down. 31.5 pounds to go. 7 inches gone. Next monday is measure day.

 

Work.. I am so tired of work. I am tired of the click. I am extremely tired of the whispering between my (so called) supervisor & the Dr. I work with everyday. She needs to start watching her butt because she is starting to make a lot of mistakes. They are in the process trying to make working up patients in a new way. She is going to have to change several of her ways. For one is how loud she is when she is with patients. When she is do an intake with a new OB you can hear her in the waiting room. When she is working up these patients she is going to need to start documenting the labs she pulls or calls for. I am tired of going back & fixing her work. I called her yesterday about a labs & her reply was let me think about it... That is not an answer. I am tired of hearing her try & show off or impress the doctors. I (& probably the other MA's) are not impressed by a $2000 Nordstroms bill.. to me that shows me you spend to much money at a store you can not afford just so you can impress other... News Flash**** Not Impress****... Come back to your true income range...

April 4 2004

Well, went shopping last night & bought my first pair of pants in a size 14. Also an early weight in at the doctor's office.

That means a total loss of:

Pounds: 8.5 (as of friday 4/2/04)

Inches: 7 total (as of 3/15/004)

Clothing sizes: 2 sizes (now a 14)

I can not wait to get off all this fat so i can get into these cute little outfits. The offical weigh in it tomorrow. We'll see what it says & i will post the final results.

Monday weigh in

3/29/04

Well 1 more pound gone. 7.5 pounds lost & 40 pounds to go. I can not wait to be thin & to be able to by stylish clothes. To go out o clubs & turn heads because how good i look not how bad I look in the outfit. I want to stop being a clumbsy ox. I have got to keep up the good work... Lose it, Lose it, Lose it...

weigh in

March 23, 2004

well yesterday was weigh in & measuring day. In 4 weeks I have lost 6.5 lbs & 7 inches. This means 41 lbs to go. I am slowly getting to my goal.

The vacation weekend went great. Completed a lot of pages. The only problem was that it went by toooo quickly. They are talking about doing it again next year.. Yeahh.... I wish they did it twice a year. oh well...

Vacation

Well, in 12 hours I will be on my way to Ocala for a scrapbook weekend. It is a weekend of just using a time away from distractions to work on and complete your scrapbooks. Last year I completed 26 pages. I hope to complete a lot this year. This year will not be the same with Major Parker there. Patty Parker had her life cut short by complications from the flu. She was only in her mid forties. She will be greatly missed this year.

A New start to a new me

Well, it has been a few months since I last wrote. Things have been extremely busy. Christmas, vacation to Dad's in North Carolina, my shoulder, work & now a new weight loss program.

**** Christmas was nice. New years the same as always, spent alone with the puppies.

**** North Carolina trip. It was nice see my dad & all the family, but is was also upseting. My grandparents are being robbed by 2 of their own children. My uncle Edwin & his son are live with them rent free and not helping clean up. Their house was almost unlivable. Then my aunt Evelyn is pretty much living off grandma & grandpa's life savings. She does not have a job, will not get a job & is totally content on sitting her big butt on the couch allowing her butt just get bigger. And the worst is she is send her middle child Maria down her same path. Evelyn just like her brother does not help grandma & grandpa with household chores. My grandparents are not is good health to do it all for them. My grandmother spends her days still working 5-6 days a week at the library working & the rest of the time in bed because her legs bother her so much. I feel like calling the house dept to turn them in so they will get help. On top of that my stepmother is continually pressuring me for grandchildren. I am not ready for children because I have not found Mr. Right yet.

**** Work is the same old pain in the neck. Not enough people, too many things to do.

**** My shoulder. I am still having a lot of shoulder pain. Therapy was stopped because they only allow 10 sessions at a time. They tired a cortisone injection which sent me to the ER with chest pain for 4 days. Which is leading to me changing primary care physicians because she says it was a panic attack. She also said my last asthma attack was a panic attack.

**** New weight loss program. Well I started a program called Inches-a-Weigh on Febuary 14th and after completing 3 weeks I have lost of 4 pounds. I go on monday March 22nd to be weighed & measured. The ladies are nice, really supportive and we have fun. I will keep you posted on my progress.. 43.5 pounds to go... :-)

Cody & I.V. Grace are in obedience classes. Cody is doing great. I.V. Grace misses Cody too much & wants to come home to him. She is learning but still misses him.

Day 72

The hole dug my management is getting deeper and deeper. They supervisors don't seem to realize that they are causing a lot of turmoil with the staff members. They are constantly pawning off stuff on others when it should be handled by them. If it is a lab error then the lab supervisor should handle it to the end. If there is an irate patient the office manager should handle it. She should not just disappear. The lab supervisor should run the lab manifests herself to sure there is not a problem, NOT dish it out to someone else then run out the door. If a member of management wants respect then they need to show respect to the employees. Do not treat them like 2 yr olds and expect them not to throw tempertantrumes. Show them what they are doing wrong before rubbing their nose in their mistake. Show & teach them don't humiliate them.

Day 71 (late because of computer problems)

Well, tomorrow is Monday and I'm not looking forward to going in because work is getting stressful. Lay offs have started at work. They have layed of a Nurse and MA and they have eliminated a position and moved her into a MA position. Which is no the greatest because this means another person who has NO Medical background in the back. I can understand why they are getting rid of Connie. She was making way to many mistakes. She is a very hard worker but she does not learn from her mistakes. She wants to go to nursing school but I feel that she has too much of tunnel vision to make a productive nurse. She is probably end up as a nurse who will work in a nursing home. Com on the other hand, she is hard working. I think she fell victim because she has missed so many days because of her children. Cam has been walked all over by her dramatic girls. Cam needs to put her foot down and tell her 2 girls that are out of her house they need to start taking care of themselves. This jobs is getting worrisome. We have staff members who are working with patients who have no formal medical training, even first aid or CPR. It just amazes me that the office can get away with it. Our supervisor is a waste of a paycheck. You can never find her, she never handles problems, if you bring up any type of situations you will be ignored until she finds someone else to be made at, and never adresses problems that are serious. She has tunnel vision that is totally distorted. If only I could find a job that pays as much as I am making now I would leave. Come on Lotto...