Where to start? I've spent the last few days detoxing and going through withdrawals from the Ritalin. I think. Maybe I'm actually sick, but the mood swings and body aches seem to fit in with my medication schedule. See, two weeks ago, I was regularly taking two 20 mg tablets twice a day, four hours apart. Of course, 20 mg doesn't go through the system in four hours, so for a short period of time every day, I'd have quite a rush from the little overload.
The good thing about that, is that I would be in a great mood, wide awake, and doing a great job at work. The bad thing is that once my body stopped getting that high every day, it made me irritable and sick.
At my last appointment, I was given a month's supply of extended release Ritalin, which was 30 mg spaced out over an entire day. It worked for about 3 days before I started getting dangerously drowsy at work and then getting body aches. Over my weekend, I decided to just not take anything and then try to go up from nothing, instead of coming down from the high dose.
Well, I haven't made up my mind yet entirely on what to do about the meds. Can't reach the doctor 'til Monday, so I have to get through the weekend. Yesterday and today I just took 10 mg in the afternoon and left it at that, but I had tonight off so I don't know how it would have fared in the work environment.
Laurie's cancer has returned with a vengeance and she's undergoing much more serious treatment this time around. Surgery is planned for this summer and she's doing three chemo/radiation treatments a week. Gotta hand it to her though. She's still working full-time on top of all of that. At Walmart, no less. Her commitment never ceases to amaze me.
Friend of mine at work lost his job the other day. Wish I knew exactly what happened. Apparently they've been trying to fire him for years, always looking for a good reason. He misses lots of work, has lots of health problems, but in my opinion was quite capable of his job. Unfortunately, he has quite severe narcolepsy, fell asleep on the job a couple times, and was demoted. The last time we spoke, he said our boss surprised him by asking him how they could work together to improve the situation (when before it was usually something along the lines of "get out, you're fired" which was always taken back). That was probably about a month ago.
Probably could all have been prevented if they let him work day shift. My network of spies say he has enemies higher up.
Last of the news is nothing exciting to anyone but me, really. I installed Fedora 10 on a Powerbook G4. It wasn't perfect, but now I have everything working except for the sound (I had it, but when I rebooted, it stopped working again.).
I did it for Rachel, who really hated Mac OS, and a little for myself, to get more familiar with using Linux. She needs a laptop for school and hopefully I can get it to emulate some Windows-Only software for her so she doesn't have to buy an expensive new laptop.
Also, just finished "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow. Great book. Recommended.
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It seems that your friend may have the same problems I can forsee with Wal-mart. Even though I have a documented medical problem, as did he, when they don't like you for whatever reasons they look for reasons and document them in order to "officially" fire someone. It looks like, by all accounts, that they did everything they could to help him on his medical problems, they just point out other reasons that he is incompetant at his work. I could, by all means, be fired for many things that my employees do that are not my direct fault. For instance, the pulling of out of date products. Every single day we find a few things that the person that does the pulls misses. I am responsible for that and people have been fired or severely reprimanded for that very thing. It's just all going to depend if I can kiss ass hard enough to skim by the hair of my teeth and keep my job when wal-mart is making such severe cuts to save their prescious profit margin.
And PS- its just twice a week but it's kicking my ass. I applied for 2 part time jobs nearby, Dollar tree and Arbys just to have extra money to pay for my medications. I'll find some way to do it.
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