Back Again...Again

Sorry for my recent absence from blogging - I have been sick and completely unmotivated to do much of anything. I think I am back. At the very least, I am feeling better than I did last week at this time, so I am up and running this morning. This year's pollen season has been rough on me, and my nurse visit two Saturdays ago was unhelpful for the thing that I am doing here, so it took an entire week before I was able to address what was happening with me. I am no longer coughing up green mucus, so I think I am getting better.

This is how it happens for me. I start off with a pollen reaction that ends up in bronchitis, fevers, and other responses. This happens about every three years here where I live, and I am a bit giddy with the possibility that it will not be happening next year (don't get too excited, KB. I still need to see if I can afford to move...).

I am tired this morning. My sleep schedule has been messed up over the past week so it has been hard to get up and get going. I was also up very early this morning in an attempt to not be startled by the alarm that I set so I wouldn't sleep through my departure time this morning. The power went off at my house in the midst of several storms that have gone through my area recently, so my alarm light has to be reset and refined in order to act as an effective alarm. The light turned on at 1am yesterday which was not helpful. It went on at 4:27am this morning which is closer to when I need it (4am). I think I have it set correctly at the moment, but who knows?

It is time to head back to my empty music therapy room to get music therapy started for the last two and a half months of my professional career at this facility. My suitemates are gone, and things are going to be quiet - well, except for the yelling that happens next door...

We are going to talk about our country of the month this week. It was scheduled for last week but did not happen due to my illness. I will have less money in the month of May because I have run out of Paid Time Off for the year. It has been a rough one for me - cancer surgery in June, recovery in July, flu in January, and now this stuff. Since I am still coughing lots and lots and have about half a voice to use at any given time, we will be watching videos and learning about the country selected for this month. I am hoping that my clients will be able to navigate the plans that I have for them with little need for energy on my part because I just don't have any energy right now.

My brain is feeling slow this morning.

Okay. The plan for today is to go to work, wade through all of the emails that are in my inbox and do not have anything to do with my job, check the country presentation, see what my clients have taken from the music therapy room, and pack some things into my car. Then, five groups and an individual session before bus duty in the 80 degree afternoon before pouring myself into my car for the commute home. Let's hope that I have a shred of energy left once I get back home.

We will see.

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