Hello and welcome to the weekend!
I worked today. Teacher workday and I felt pretty decent. 70%. I got curtains hung, things put away, and the background of my Recorder karate scope up in the hall.
I have not bought anything in 5 days. Considering they had great sales for Curvy Woman Day on Wednesday (or was it Tuesday) and they’ve launched a huge sale today, I’m quite proud of myself. As I have some self-indulgent whining behind the cut, let’s get on with the reason why we’re here.
Thar ya go!
Whining behind the cut.
I’m not surprised by this, but it still hurts.
I worked the teacher work day – at 70% physical ability. I discovered that many of my coworkers think I’m faking, and are repulsed by my inability to wear a mask and chronic asthma hack. None of them came to me – they went to my administrator.
I talked to my admin about half days for 2 or 3 weeks. Our superintendent shot it down. I can either get another doctor’s excuse and stay home or go to work. Seeing how I’m out of money, I guess I’ll be going to work. This is going to be painful.
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Well that sucks. Not very good of them not to accommodate your medical need for a gradual return. Hope it goes well.
I’m going to see if I can get into my doctor’s office this week. If so, I’ll see if he’ll write me an excuse stating what I’m suffering from now is NOT Covid but residual lung problems. If the Sick Bank will accept that, I can take off another month or two. If not, my co-workers are just going to have to deal.
What hurts was this is such a great school and now, i’m leery. I plan to just hook up my air purifiers and stay in my room as much as possible. Not socialize at all. I tire out so easily anyway.
I think that post-COVID-syndrome will become a new diagnosis. Are masks mandatory at your school?
When school started, they weren’t. But pretty much everyone is wearing them. I can’t, my admin knows I can’t and it’s NOT been an issue with her. I have 2 air purifiers in my room and I’m disinfecting between classes. I make sure I’m more than 6 feet from kids and I’m using hand sanitizer.
Apparently the nice smelling hand sanitizer I used Monday i’m allergic too. I set me off bad and I ended up soaping up all the way to my elbows but by then it was too late. It completely did me in.
I have real problems with smelly sanitizer too. Just disinfectant I’m okay with, it’s the perfume that I have an issue with. What if you got one of those plastic shields instead? There’s the visor kind and then the kind that comes up from the bottom to cover your nose and mouth. That might make the other teachers feel better. Like this https://www.amazon.com/Mascare-Transparent-Food-Handlers-Mask/dp/B07ZPG9TPD
I’ve tried one and it muffles my voice. Granted, right now I have no voice.
Somewhere, I have a microphone I can wear, but we can’t figure out how to turn it on. The amplifier is up on the ceiling and there isn’t a ladder tall enough to get to it.
I guess a megaphone would be frowned upon.
Well… uh… yeah….
The visor and microphone sound like good options. If you have a dry erase board or chalk board, maybe wright what you need to say instead of saying it? 🌻 Hope you can make it work somehow.
I’ve purchased online a rather expensive shield that attaches at the collar bone and tilts out. I hope it works. I have a SMALL dry erase board and I’m sharing a LARGE non working touch screen television that has honked out with the art teacher.
Chalk will set off the asthma! All that dust in the air….
Too bad you couldn’t get a dry erase board, that probs minimize the dust.
I have one, it’s just not very big I have to put up Essential Questions and expectations for all 6 grade levels and I”m going to be honest – not having a giant screen and having to hand write actual music on a dry erase is time consuming.
Besides, I was informed today that until I get a full release from my doctor that I am 100% healthy, I can’t go back. It is imperative that I see the pulmonologist and he can write me a full diagnosis that is NOT Covid so I can retry my Sick bank. I have 60 days in it if i get it. If not, I’m going to have to go to unemployment or somewhere to find funds.
Yeesh, I really hope you do not have COVID. Too bad you can’t have the cocktail of drugs the prez got to allow him to hit the campaign trail. (And hopefully not infecting everyone along the way.)
I had Covid. Was hospitalized for 9 days in August. what I’m dealing with now is Long Covid or Covid long-haul. My life right now is a mess
Hopefully you’ll survive it then. 🤒
I hope so. I’d like to know what’s dragging me down now, causing me to miss work.
Whatever it is, get better. 😷