Yikes

There are so many reasons for that title. First of all. There have been so many things take place since my last post the end of August. Namely, I lost my job the end of the first week of September. I hope you will all understand that the last thing I really felt like doing was putting my thoughts on this damn thing. After almost 5 months of searching and absolutely ZERO job offers, I had two offers within about 15 hours of each other.

I am absolutely thrilled that my family and I will be staying put in Grinnell. I accepted a job offer from Family Medicine to be the Office Manager. The current office manager is ready to join her husband (the founder of the clinic) in retirement. The amazing part of this position is that I started working on a part time basis as a typist. I was typing up the office notes that the physicians would dictate. I went in on a Saturday morning and had a great conversation with the office manager. I had lunch with her and the physicians on Wednesday and was offered the position on Thursday. WOW! As I mentioned before I couldn't be happier with the position. The physicians and the other staff in the office are absolutely wonderful and have welcomed me into their family without flinching at all.

My other major YIKES is my blood pressure. Since I am across the street from the hospital everyday I couldn't let the opportunity pass to utilize the wellness center on a regular basis. One of the things that they have every member do is a fitness evaluation. However, I didn't even get that far. One of the first things that Amber, the fitness specialist, did was take my BP. It was amazingly high. After about 10 minutes and several measurement later it had only succeeded in going even higher. I knew one of our physicians was still at the clinic (after an crazy Friday) so I headed back over to talk to him. My BP was now slightly lower, but still REALLY high. He suggested relaxing over the weekend and we would revisit the issue on Monday. Of course if anything presented itself symptom wise over the weekend I should head to the ER. Of course every possible situation runs through my head all weekend long and I don't know how much relaxing I've actually gotten accomplished even without doing a whole heck of a lot (except about 10 loads of laundry).

I just checked my BP again and even after a whole long weekend it is still high. I just want to try and make this all better!

As people have been telling me for the past 5 months, everything happens for a reason. So know not only do I have to figure out what the lesson I was meant to learn from unemployment, I also have to try and figure out what extreme BP is supposed to teach me. Oh yeah and hopefully get it under control SOON!

I'll keep you posted and hopefully this time be better at this blog thing...

Cheers