Yay, Cosmo!!! I am so, so happy and relieved.

Yay Cosmo! Now you've had your adventure so don't do that again.

I've informed her firmly she is a very naughty boots. And she will be getting chipped ASAP. And possibly a collar with a GPS chip.

is there any reason either omeprazole or hydrochlorothiazide would cause either heartburn or a UTI?

Yoinks! I take both these meds too! I haven't had the side effects listed yet, thank goodness for small favors. Hope you can get it all straightened out so that your meds are doing more good than harm, Zen.

Hooray Cosmo!

Oh Cosmo, you naughty kitty! Such good news to read this morning!

Great news, Strix! Welcome home, naughty kitty.

Welcome home, Cosmo! Now stay there!

Yay, kitty! The outside isn't as fun as they tell you it is, stay home!

I just gave one of my supervisors what amounts to serious attitude. It is company policy to find your own replacement if you want a day off. I'm good with that, I comply with it all 2/3 locations I work with. At the 3rd location, however, the housemanager has been there since before it was run by this company and she, rather than the supervisors, has handled the schedule. Lead has always coordinated finding coverage for sick days and vacation days. In fact, things have seemed to get discombobulated when I try to handle that myself. It just so happened that in the summer when I turned in a PTO request, Lead was on vacation. Somehow my request got lost in the shuffle (I believe Supervisor took it and forgot about it). One of my coworkers alerted Lead to my problem a few days before the days I'd requested off. Lead got right to it and worked a minor miracle to get me my time off. At the next staff meeting when both Lead and Supervisor were there, I asked what I could do to keep something like that from happening again. They made the suggestion that I turn in a copy of PTO requests to both of them. In September, I turned in some time off requests. At the beginning of October, the schedule for that house got completely revamped and as a result so did my schedule at all my houses. And in the revamping process, Supervisor took over handling the schedule. So a day I'd requested off got missed. And I've got some in November that I have heard nothing on, and they are not on the sign-up sheet for people to pick up extra shifts. So I asked Supervisor about that this morning. When she started in on how it is company policy to find your own replacement, I said "You know that's not how it works there." She replied with "but we're encouraging people to do that now. It is company policy. We talked about it at the staff meeting." Oh, would the be the staff meeting that got rescheduled without anyone notifying me so when I showed up, I was all alone? She kept going on about company policy, so I said "Yup" three times as she went on and on. After the third "Yup" (I confess I popped that p pretty obviously) I walked away from her.

She might have a point if she were to call me on the carpet for my attitude, but I believe my response will be, "I was agreeing with you about policy. If you don't like it when I agree with you, I can stop."

That or, "We all know there is sometimes a conflict between official policy and unwritten rules. When leadership strives to bring those unwritten rules into allignment with policy, it is very challenging. Here's a little leadership hint for you: Changing the rules without telling people erodes trust."

It really is too bad Supervisor has decided to not have me on her side. Because coworkers at that house are grumbling about that policy. I, as someone who sees it as normal, could be reassuring and soothing to my coworkers, if I weren't so pissed off.

COSMO IS BACK! I am so glad!

Yoinks! I take both these meds too! I haven't had the side effects listed yet, thank goodness for small favors.

I think if you were gonna get those side effects, you'd have got them already, Nora! They came on pretty quick, within a couple days of starting the meds. IANAD.

Andi, I would be pissed off, too. If TPTB are gonna change The Way Things Are Done, they need to be clear and make sure nothing slips through the cracks in the transition. Sounds like they're handling this badly.

I'm feeling much better today, partly because I overslept by two hours. Eh, I'm on vacation this week. (I took the week off specifically to try to get better adjusted to the new med that's making me sleepy and dopey.*) I've decided to be non-compliant. I'm not taking the omeprazole (Prilosec) anymore. It's a PPI antacid. I had been taking OTC rantidine (Zantac), which is an antacid but not a PPI, and I had no problems with it, so I'm switching back. I'm also cutting the hydrochlorothiazide (diuretic) in half, because I suspect it's increasing my stomach acid somehow. These two things may not go together. On va voir. If I keel over, these were bad decisions. n = 1

*and a couple other dwarves too**

**there's no way I could not make that stupid joke