Day 1 back to work = DISASTER

Oh my! That's all I really have to say about how my day started!

Last night I went into the office (at work) to synch my computer so it would be ready to go to start my first day back to work. Well, after almost 1.5 hours, I decided to just leave my computer at work, plugged in, so it would be ready in the morning. Amanda was to be here at 9am. Since I had no patients scheduled yet, since none were assigned to me, I figured 9 would be good for me to start calling any patients I got assigned to and potentially see them the same day.

Getting up for work wasn't a problem at all and Natalie slept again for 10 hours! Yay! After pumping and getting out of the shower, I received a text from my sister close to 8:30am saying that for me not to be mad at her, but that she was just leaving Indy. Now, it takes much longer than 30 minutes to get to Terre Haute. Sometime after 9:30am she rolled into our driveway. Meanwhile, I was on the phone with my boss getting all the details from a meeting I missed, that I had no idea was scheduled! Oops! Supposedly, she sent a text to me on the 23rd telling me about this meeting, but since my phone has been off since February 17th, it never came through. Luckily, she wasn't upset and she gave me 4 patients. My work phone was also acting super crazy and would just shut off, not turn on, just freeze...very irritating!  Since my computer was still at the office, after Amanda got to the house and Natalie woke up, I was off to deal with the computer. TWO hours later, I finally got the computer working and was able to call my 4 patients (1 of which no longer wanted OT), and the other 3 didn't want OT until Thursday. So, I had no patients today or any scheduled tomorrow, all 3 on Thursday, so it was pretty pointless for Amanda to come down at all right now, but what can you do.

At one point during the whole ordeal, I dropped my personal iPhone at the office, in which it stated I had no SIM card connected. So, my work phone sucks and wouldn't work, as well as my personal phone not letting me call or do anything because it had no SIM card. I was getting extremely stressed/irritated by this point and I think God realized this and gave me a break, so miraculously my iPhone started working...thank goodness! Then, I met Bobby for lunch at the hospital since I had nothing better to do with no patients scheduled and during lunch a big server went down, so he was working from his phone all throughout lunch...how enjoyable! He was able to fix my work phone though. Now all I need him to do is when he gets home try to get my work computer to synch from home once again.

I feel like I've been gone from work for over a year!  I told Bobby that if this was any indication of how my work life was going to be from here on out that I am going to quit! He just laughs, but I was being serious!  Hopefully things smooth over and will go more in my favor. I love technology and all the cool things you can do with it, but sometimes it's a bigger pain in my rear than it's worth! Oh and to top it all off, all this chaos that happened today, I didn't even get paid for it since I only get paid per patient visit. No patients = $0 :(  Things can only go up, right?!

I'm hoping that as the day goes along, it gets better instead of worse, especially since we are supposed to hear about the home we put an offer on!

I am happy to say that I did not cry leaving Natalie this morning, probably because she was with my sister and not some stranger! It will be really hard when I have to take her to daycare:( But until then I will just be grateful that my sister was willing to dedicate a big chunk of her summer to Natalie. She loves you for it Amanda! And so do I!