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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Ear issues


UGH!!!!!! I went all the way to Victoria, missed a day a work (we'll not really) and the stupid ear doctor was f-ing useless!!!!

If you want to hear about my ear issues we'll have to start from the beginning.....

Many babies who have ear issues, such as constant ear infections get tubes put in their ears, which help with drainage and pressure equalization, etc etc. So i got tubes as a baby, then in grade 4 i got them taken out. The right ear tube just sort of popped out on it own as i'm lead to believe is suppose to happen. the other one however was lodged into my ear drum and had to be surgically removed which left a hole, which had to be patched in grade 5. I'm not sure if they used skin donations, or shaved some of my hear for the patch, both options were presented to me however we were never clear as to what they do.

Anyway.... since then i've had mega ear issues. an ear infection or two per year, usually during exams oddly, maybe they're stress induced. Either way studying while super dizzy and in pain is not fun... but many people do it every day (ie university students tend to get drunk a lot).

Most recently, in September we went surfing in Toffino and a wave crashed super hard into the left side of my head and made my ear hurt so bad. I thought i got another ear infection but didn't do much about it, when the pain became constant and a regular part of my life, which it is in general but this time more noticeable, i saw my doctor, yes it was about 3 months after the fact but whatever it still hurt. My doctor had a look and nothing was wrong. Every time i saw my doctor after that (and if you know me that's a lot, yeah health issues) i got her to look at my ear and at some point she referred me to an ear, nose and throat guy.

So last friday i saw the ear nose and throat guy. what a colossal waste of time!!! "nope, nothing, you're fine. we could put tubes back in there but its really a grey area, it could make them better but it might make them worse and we don't want that". no i guess we don't but what i really want is FOR YOU TO HELP ME!!!!!! GAWD!!

So to make up for going to Victoria last friday I have to work this saturday which means a 6 day work week followed by a one day weekend, yaaaaay :'( and all for naught.

so annoyed!

AND to put some stress on my already full head (full of nervous 'cause im finally doing work at work) I'm worried i'm not going to get the time off that i NEED due to 2 weddings this year. one being mine and the other being my brothers.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Bankable


So once again i have a new job, YAY!!

RBC is going well, the training portion of the job is 6 weeks and I'm on week two. The confusing part is that my week starts on Tuesday, so even though its Wednesday it's day 2 of week 2 and I'm getting my days super confused. I.e. yesterday i thought it was Tuesday and today i thought it was Thursday. And even more confusing yesterday WAS Tuesday and i kept forgetting that fact.

One person that I worked with last week asked where I worked before the Bank. I told this person I use to work at Starbucks (apparently there's a lot of us). They then said that I should have stayed at Starbucks. It seems that they thought I could get more money and hours at Starbucks than at RBC. In what world?? Many other employees don't seem to enjoy their job etc etc but thats the same as any where.

However I already feel the want to go back to school, I'd still really love to work at a museum, and not in a retail/sale type position. And there fore I need more schooling.

Thats all for now.
I miss all my friends from Starbucks :(
I have an ear doctors appt on friday, maybe I'll finally get my ear taken care of, which may result in yet another ear operation, woot woot.