Tag: work after cancer

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…