Excuse me?

 I got an email, late in the day on Friday, from my "supervisor."

She told me that they want me to start working in the office a second day every week.

Excuse me?  None of my co-workers have to work more than one day in the office, so why should I have to?

The reason she gave is that they want me to "review the refund checks, and mail them out."  

Um.... 

It will not do any good at all for me to have to review my own work.  

I review the accounts in great detail BEFORE I put a refund into the system.  

I am not going to know if I made a legitimate mistake, because I already reviewed everything up front, and determined that a refund was needed.

AND,  lastly, how difficult is it to print out the document that goes with the check, fold it up, and stick it in an envelope?  Anyone can do that.... you don't need ME to be in the office- for an entire extra day per week- just to do that.

Sigh.

Accounting prints the checks late on Wednesday afternoons.

She asked me to add Thursdays, and I had to remind her that I have chemotherapy every 3rd Thursday.  I've been doing this for over 18 months, but I still had to remind her.

So then, she asked if I could do Fridays, so I added that every 3rd Friday, on the day after chemo, I really do NOT need to be in the office.

The day after chemo tends to be a pretty rough day, because I don't sleep well when I am full of steroids, and I don't always feel well. 

And there's the lovely steroid reactions that I get.  You know.  Rage and emotions and stuff.

I asked why I can't just add mailing the refunds to what I do on my regular office day, and the answer was "we want the checks mailed out ASAP.  We can't let them sit until Monday."

Huh.  That's weird.  Because accounting used to take about 10 days to get batches of checks out in the mail (back before management decided that WE should be mailing the checks ourselves), and, up until now, the "supervisor" has been leaving them until Mondays.

So, last I heard, things were still up in the air as to which day they want me to add.  I could do Thursdays, but there will be one every 3 weeks that I won't be able to do.

I guess I will find out more tomorrow.

In other news, physical therapy went really well this past week.  I talked with my "substitute" therapist, and he determined that I should keep doing all of the exercises every day, but to take a break from the resistance bands.

I did, and it helped.  I have not had another day of crippling post-work out pain.

He also did some extensive manual therapy on me, including massage and traction (pulling on my leg), that gave me a tremendous amount of relief. 

I felt pretty good again yesterday.  I'm thinking that Saturdays are my best days, because I spend so much less time sitting.

We shall see how today goes.  I will add the resistance bands back today, I think.

My office days are definitely the worst, when it comes to making the symptoms worse.  

When I am in the office, I can't just flop down onto the floor of my cube and do a few stretches, or drape myself over a pile of pillows (to give my spine some traction), like I can when I am at home.

By the time I get home from work, the symptoms are so bad that I can't even describe it.  This is another reason that I really don't want to have to add a second day a week having to go there.

ANYWAY...the heat has continued to be intense here.  Highs above 100 degrees, with heat index values around 115.

No end in sight.  Average highs next week are 103 to 105, and overnight lows in the 80s.  They keep saying it's about a month early for this kind of heat.

Great.

So, being trapped inside is not helping my physical or mental health any, either.

Today should be less intense, though.... in theory, with a high in the mid 90s. Whee.

I may go over to a friend's house, at some point, to help her with something.  We shall see.

And my plan for today's cooking project is to cook up a bunch of the frozen chicken tenders that I have on hand, and make a nice Waldorf-like chicken salad, with grapes, and celery, and baby broccoli.

Have a good week!