Tag: returning to work after cancer
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The Work Behind Looking Fine
The Work Behind Looking Fine 🌼 Date: Sunday, August 30, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Quiet Sunday planning mode 💖 Status: Lunchbox, layers, protein math, and reality checks 🤔 Outlook: Looking fine takes more work than people know Today I am enjoying one of the last quiet Sundays before school starts. The kind of Sunday where everything…
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Seniority Is a Beautiful Thing
Seniority Is a Beautiful Thing 🌼 Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Bid day and cautious hope 💖 Status: Six-hour early morning route secured 🙂 Outlook: Health first, nap second, everything else can wait Today was bid day. And let me just say this: Seniority is a beautiful thing. A beautiful, magical, glorious thing.…
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Chemo Brain Meets New Technology
Chemo Brain Meets New Technology 🌼 Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Technology training with a buffering brain 💗Status: Absorbing what I can 🧐 Outlook: Do my best. That is all I have to give. Today was all about learning the new technology at work. And my brain was not having it. Was it…
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First Day Back
First Day Back 🌼 Date: Monday, August 24, 2026 ⚡Energy: Classroom marathon 💖 Status: Back at work, technically 🤔 Outlook: Rinse and repeat, with meal prep and outfit armor Today was my first day back to work since this whole cancer saga started. First. Day. Back. Granted, it was “only” sitting in eight hours of…
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The Alarm Clock Betrayal
The Alarm Clock Betrayal 🌼 Date: Sunday, August 23, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Technologically challenged and mildly offended 💖 Status: Alarm set, dignity questionable 🥲 Outlook: Callback starts tomorrow whether my phone cooperates or not Today I was technologically challenged. And by technologically challenged, I mean I had to figure out how to set my alarm.…
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Outfit Armor
Outfit Armor 🌼 Date: Saturday, August 22, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Planning mode activated 💖 Status: Meal prep, outfit prep, emotional armor prep 🥰 Outlook: Tina 2.0 is not walking back in unnoticed Today was all about planning. This coming week is Callback. For those who are not fluent in transportation language, Callback is the week…
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Sitting in the Student Seat
Sitting in the Student Seat 🌼 Date: Friday, August 21, 2026 ⚡ Energy: First aid class, but make it emotionally weird 💖 Status: Driver, not instructor 🧐 Outlook: Learning how to sit in the room differently Today I had to take a first aid class. As a driver. Not as an instructor. And let me…
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What Looking Okay Actually Contains
What Looking Okay Actually Contains 🌼 Date: Thursday, August 20, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Return-to-work reality check 💗 Status: Looking okay does not mean feeling okay 😌 Outlook: Please remember there is more happening than what you can see With my return to work coming up soon, this feels like something I need to say. Can…
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Just a Bus Driver
Just a Bus Driver 🌼 Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Chapter-closing energy 💔 Status: Desk cleaned out, boundaries set 🥲 Outlook: Tina 2.0 is no longer living to work Today I closed a chapter of my life. I put in my resignation as driver trainer. I cleaned out my desk. I cleared out…
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Cancer Did Not Take My Certificate
Cancer Did Not Take My Certificate 🌼 Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Physical test anxiety with a surprise victory lap 💖 Status: ODE physical passed, Fit for Duty passed 😍 Outlook: Sore, but certified Today I had to go in to renew my bus driver certificate. Which means it was time for my…
