First Day at New Job
Like anyone else would, I wanted to make a good impression on my first day. I set my clothes out the night before, I bought new shoes. I was nervous but felt I was completely prepared. Boy was I in trouble.I woke up late on my first day due to an alarm clock failure. I didn't feel well -- felt sort of queasy -- but thought it had to do with nerves and vitamins on an empty stomache. No matter how bad I might have felt, there was NO WAY I'd miss my first day at a new job. So I kept talking myself out of feeling bad. "Drink some water, " I told myself, "splash some water on your face. Stop whining. Snap out of it" etc, etc. I threw on my carefully selected first day of work outfit with the new shoes and proceeded to drive in traffic praying the whole time that I didn't barf on myself.
It turns out I had a stomache flu. I spent most of my first day at my new job in the bathroom throwing up!! Can you believe that! I threw up my whole first day. How many of you can top that one? I kept apologizing to all my new co-workers and running off to the bathroom to puke. All day. Talk about a lasting first impression. Still not convinced this was actually happening (denial is my friend), I stayed the full day (which for me was 8:30 am to 3pm), potentially infecting my whole new office. Unbelievable.
After work I had to take Katie to the Dr. as she hurt her ankle at soccer practice last Thursday and it wasn't getting better. (Keep in mind she had the great misfortune of hurting said ankle the night before my last day of work at my old company and I was STRESSED OUT as I had 2 weeks of work to somehow complete in one day. My schedule was (for those of you who haven't heard me whine about it yet) Daughter's soccer practice Thursday night simultaneous with my son's Back to School Night followed by a complete dismantling of my home office to be returned to my old company, but not before I finished my last Workers Comp audit. Emotional last day of work Friday followed closely by son's big Football game (infused with 2 frantic phone calls from my husband "why are you still there? we have a game! Hurry up and leave. you are a work-a-holic. We'll miss kick off" ). Daughter still complaining of ankle pain - no time to deal with it - tell her to ice it and watch tv. Got home from Football at 10:30 pm, prepped snacks and uniform for soccer game (need to be at the field at 10 am and then again at 2:20 for soccer team photos (i'm the team mom, btw) Daughter still complaining of ankle pain. Coach taped it up and put her in the goal. After the first quarter she asked to sit out due to pain. After game we had lunch and then went to soccer photo. After photos, dropped daughter at a "jeans and purse party" and rushed off to a baby shower. Sat pm, ankle still hurting, we told daughter to stay off of it all day Sunday and we'll call a Dr. Monday if it still hurts. Sunday we stayed home, did laundry, homework, prepped for first day at new job. Monday AM mom overslept, screamed at both children to WAKE UP! WE'RE LATE! Daughter still complaining of ankle pain. I told her to stay home and we'd deal with it after now infamous "first day of work".)
So... I called Dr. after work on Monday (me still queasy and barfing at the sight of food) and they sqeezed her in. (which means we waited to be seen for 2 hours until they had time to see her, me praying the whole time that I wouldn't barf in the waiting room). Bottom line: She is now in a cast from her foot all the way to her knee! Turns out she injured her achilles tendon. We have to schedule an MRI this week to see if it's torn and to determine if she needs surgery (!!!).
WHAT A CRAZY FIRST DAY OF WORK! UNBELIEVABLE. (Yet memorable. Definitely memorable). Second day of work was far more pleasant, btw. Thank God.
Hope all is well out there. Missing you all.
posted by Kim @ 8:24 PM
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