Oh, good grief. I've got a friend from grad school who I only really see every year or two, at math conferences, though I chat with her online every couple months. Last time I saw her, about a year and a half ago, was at a conference, which she attended with her husband. I hadn't known she got married. None of our grad school group had known. A bunch of us joked with her that she'd better tell us the next time anything else big happened, like if she had a baby. Well, I'm chatting with her now, and she just mentioned her daughter. Who is nearly a year old. And she has somehow never mentioned that she has a daughter. And, counting back the months, she would have been about two months pregnant when we were joking with her that she had to tell us if she had a baby. I can understand not telling us then, but you'd think she'd remember sometime in the entire past year?

That's weird Hil. Maybe she thought she said something or meant to and then forgot.

I have a return date for work, part time - May 17th. Not as soon as my therapist would have liked but they were making the schedule for that week and it would have taken some work to juggle me in. I'll go for 20 hours a week for 2-3 weeks and go from there. I won't be working closing shifts anymore (to maintain my sleep schedule) so that's good. I haven't been racing around taking my half a klonopin in the afternoon for about a week. Which is good. Also haven't needed it for added sleep aid. Also good.

Mom will be here from the 12-21 so that will give us some time together.

The assitant manger I talked to said I looked good, less stressed and several people at work who have no idea why I'm gone said that I looked good and are happy I'll be coming back.

I'm nervous but not freaking out.

askye, that sounds wonderful! So glad things are coming together for you, you deserve it with all your hard work.

askye, that is good news! Best of luck. I hope your transition back to work is as smooth as possible.

So good to hear it, askye. I'm really proud of how you have handled this whole situation.

Good on you, askye!

Go you, askye!

askye, that all sounds great.

I'm in NJ now, and remembered to bring my nebulizer and almost all of the parts. That "almost" is important. Gonna need to call around to medical supply stores to see if they've got the part I need tomorrow. (I've been using the nebulizer every night, and sometimes in the morning, and it helps a lot.)

Good news, askye!

Saw my meds manager today. I don't have to see her for a month (I was seeing her every 2 weeks). She noticed an improvement in my demeanor.

She wanted more blood work to see if the mega dose of vitamin D was working and also to recheck my lithium levels.

My blood pressure was the best it's been in - maybe a year. Not that it was that high before, round 120 over something. Today it was 112 over something. I never remember the bottom number.

And I was at my highest weight around November and I'm 17 lbs down from that.

However I did something to my shoulder Saturday, started bothering me on Sunday. I asked her about it and she said alternate heat and ice and otc pain relief.

Need to figure out something to do tomorrow to get out of the house. Should have saved the grocery store for tomorrow.