I haven’t been on much because my job is so exhausting but I have read everything and I am thinking of all of you who are struggling

A cold ran through our classroom and thus, us last week. We have patient zero in mind haha. She is adorable, one of the nonverbal children (at times, sometimes she repeats). I had the cold over the weekend. I slept all Saturday until it was time for work at my second job. But the cold was very minor, I felt better by Sunday. Now I just have a scratchy throat and a bit of a cough. And I’m sneezing a lot.

I got slapped in the face four times today by one of the other nonverbal students who was frustrated because I wouldn’t let him hoard the puzzles. He’s very particular, if he can’t have all of one type of matching object he gets upset. I don’t mind getting slapped (though boy it hurt, he wound up for them!) only because he can’t express himself any other way. That’s the difference with this job. It is way less triggering. I really do enjoy it.

I went to the gym today even though I was so tired. RS went with me. I’m very focused on losing weight right now as it will help take the strain off my back and the pressure off my knee that also hurts. I start PT on October fourth. I’m hesitant to say but I didn’t not wake up in pain this morning. Sometimes I get a thought it my head and manifest the symptoms so if I just go to the dr and find out nothing is wrong the symptoms go away. I bet if I did that with my knee it would feel better too!

I go for an eval at my pdoc’s office tomorrow at 5. I should have asked if my regular pdoc is still there because I don’t want to pay out of pocket for a new one. I’ll just find someone in network.