Other stuff from this week

[flexagon]

1) My STI tests came back from the doctor. There is a space for "Notes from the Doctor's Office", and my incredible RN wrote in that space:

Good job!
Much negative!
Wow!

...which is pretty much why I love her, and love the office I go to.

2) On Wednesday I went to a different doctor, to get the bump on my hand looked at. It was ultrasounded and determined to be just fluid, as I'd figured: a ganglion cyst. The doctor drained a ton of fluid out of it with a big needle in three minutes, like SLURP. Gone like magic. I guess I have a flat sac of flesh in there now, and it might fill back up, but it is nice to not have a bump right now. (If it comes back I'll get surgery to remove the whole thing.)

3) Being a manager is dicey sometimes, because sometimes people cry a lot and sometimes they have (had?) expectations that you had no idea they had. Or both! So I spent hours and hours on a thing (hello, 14-hr workday Thursday, looking at you) and I'll probably lose a team member through no fault of my own. Hissssssssssss. On the plus side, I got my compensation letter early in the week and all numbers are up from last year.

4) It's been a very social/seasonal weekend so far, and tonight's going to be social too. I'm not complaining -- we have a Christmas tree now! -- but my chores aren't done and I'm happy to be getting some alone time now.

Comments

[justplainuniverse]

your RN sounds as awesome as being a manager sounds shitty...

[flexagon]

It's not always so shitty, it just has some remarkably bad surprises possible in it.

[ckd]

Yay for #1! My NP gave me a similarly amusing response to similar results a while back. During the visit I'd said a relationship was reaching the point of non-barrier methods, hence the tests; the phone call was a cheery "everything's negative, so have fun!"

Not so yay for most of #3. (I was out a bunch of days and missed my usual 1:1 slot, so I don't have my comp letter yet. I'm cautiously optimistic.)

[flexagon]

Comp letter good, I hope? It was a tight cycle for many...

[ckd]

Reasonably good given the inputs (level/perf). More would have been nice, of course, but I don't really have any complaints.

[flexagon]

I'm truly glad to hear it. :)

[drwex]

Yay for much negative (and its associated side benefits)

I had a cyst like that on my coccyx once. It was UNPLEASANT. Eventually it broke and drained on its own. I wonder if I should get this other one poked (it's in an innocuous location and I mostly don't even remember it except sometimes people see me naked and go "what's THAT?" to which my standard answer is "my alien tracking device and transmitter". I might be a weirdo.)

Ugh on the managerial eit thing. Sympathies.

[flexagon]

My understanding is that insurance will only cover the poking of a benign cyst if it's bothering you for some reason. (My acrobatics gave me an easy explanation for the one on my hand, since it was right where the base's thumb needs to go for hand-to-hand work.)