Time for some brief updates on everything.
I had previously decided that I was going to take a short break from school during the month of October and that has gone through, been approved and is all taken care of. I’ll be back to working on my degree in November. I’m not terribly excited about the delay, but I think it will allow me to get enough other fires put out that when I do go back I will have a much easier time focusing on schoolwork, so I think this will be a good thing.
The basement is frustratingly close to being done. We have been wrestling with the people who are going to replace the bits of the floor that are missing since the second week of August with almost nothing to show for it. Supposedly they’ll have all the flooring tiles, adhesive, baseboards, etc. this week and the installers are tentatively scheduled for Thursday. If everything goes well. Maybe. It’s not certain.
I’m trying to remain optimistic that the floor will be done by the second week of October and then The Great Unpacking will commence. The Great Unpacking should only take a few days, a week at most, and then the basement will be done.
Side effects; the fatigue is way better. I’m still not 100%, maybe more like 75-80%. Just in time to get scoped in two days and start round two of treatment. Round two will not necessarily kick off right away, but this is what is going to set the schedule. I am hoping that with only three treatments instead of six, maybe I’ll only be half as fatigued afterwards. Time will tell.
Work; I will confess to being somewhat anxious about work, likely for no good reason at all. As previously mentioned, My doctor wrote me a note authorizing essentially indefinite light duty and I plan to take advantage of that. I don’t think there is anything that my employer can legally do to pressure me to return to my usual job but I also have to wonder what kind of reception I’m going to get after slacking off for 2-3 months. Time will tell.
Events may be aligning such that I will only have to deal with work and treatment during the month of October which will almost be like a vacation compared to the last six months. Of course the last time I said something like that we ended up having a global pandemic, the country elected one of the top three worst presidents in the history of the United States, the basement flooded (again) and I changed jobs three times.
I’m keeping my mouth shut this time.