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A friend said this to me on Sunday. I was talking about how stressed/exhausted I am. I've been medicating an injured horse since early November. My dog had to have a tumor removed last week. Then he pulled out the stitches over the weekend.
Add to that my job is stressful enough as it is. (I counsel at risk kids) Last week one of my cases went sideways, gobbling up huge amounts of my time. I still had to see all my other kids. Then there's the pressure from senior management to open more cases. We are contracted with the state to open a certain number of cases each year. They are concerned we are not going to make our numbers. There's talk of laying people off if numbers don't improve.
I never understood "you can only do what you can do." If life keeps piling the poo on, what am I supposed to do? Let the horse go blind? Let the dog's incision go untreated? Not see my kids? Not scrabble to open cases?
I'm exhausted and stressed. Then I got home tonight after another pressure cooker day at work and collecting the dog from the vet - again to discover the horse hurt his other eye! So now when I'm ready to keel over from exhaustion I'm facing medicating the horse every two hours around the clock. Someone please just shoot me!
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