we have a new major gifts officer and I just met her today, lady’s got Connections. I think she’ll really help bring in money and hopefully then they can budget for a new position. for now I’m just fine doing what I’m doing, especially for $3/hr more 😌

which, I’d likely be closer to that if not higher IF they decide to create a population manager position and also hire me into it. I’d stick around for that. they wanna be more progressive and up-to-date on modern shelter practice? pop management is where it’s at 😏

I’m annoyed about a lot of things at my new shelter but they did start me at the high end of the offered pay range and they ACTUALLY do cost-of-living adjustments. 23/hr still isn’t amazing but I was making the equivalent of 26/hr at my highest-paying job and I would be ok on that here

they were struggling to hire new vol coordinators after booting me but like lol. you get what you get for $15/hr. they got lucky to have me for 2 years with that shit. I only took it bc it was my first coordinator job but now that I know what I’m doing and I’m damn good at it…

I’m also now making $8/hr more than my last job, where I got $0.81 worth of raises over 2 years. not even a full dollar. and $0.50 of that wasn’t even their choice, everyone got raises when that one happened

my last raise was $0.21, for perspective. I’m not expecting my next merit-based raise to be much either. but this just nudged me up $7800/year and maybe rent won’t be over half my pay now??

turns out when I’m in pain it’s usually for a reason! I don’t want to spend more time in doctors offices than I have to and yet!!!!!

anywho. I’m exhausted. accidentally napped for like 2 hours after I got home from work and I’m still tired. bedtime I think

which is also basically what they told me 3 months before they found out my “tendonitis” was broken bones, so

…amazing they’re still gonna try to tell me this after two surgeries for very displaced, unexplained fractures that looked like tendon pain on the surface

I can’t go back to the scooter. I can’t do it. I won’t. the boot is enough. but I still can’t walk. this isn’t the expected “healing from post-op non-use” pain, something ain’t right. I mentioned it to my GP and he basically shrugged and said getting back to using it means pushing through some pain

and despite feeling ready to graduate from the ortho boot, the top of my foot is painful and not getting less painful even with ice. there’s a little swelling but it could just be edema, I don’t know. alls I know is if my rads in 2 more weeks show another break I’m gonna kms

in other news my doctor told me to double my metformin dose and I’m strugglin 2 days in. it already made me gassy but thankfully it was mostly just burps. I survived a few days of the midday poops. things evened out. now it’s happening again 🫠

we’re gonna eval some ferrets tomorrow and I’m excited. they’re very sweet noodle cats. one of the animal care staff already has an adoption hold on them. I’m gonna give him the hammock I got on sale for my rats that’s DEFINITELY meant for ferrets and turns out was way too big for my cage

she also said the words “my boyfriend” a few times which I was not aware was a thing, so boo 💔 but I am nevertheless v happy to have such a lovely friend so little innocent crush can remain unspoken

Right??? And disabled people only get so much in the way of accommodations. I have ONE accessible spot outside my building and sometimes I even feel guilty for taking it even though I need it. I’ve been recovering from 2 different foot surgeries and I can’t exactly walk across the parking lot 😒

That pain had also been building for weeks btw because I was trying to wait it out until my next appointment :) doesn’t that sound familiar :)

I’m so over all of this lmao but thanks for the tramadol I guess, hopefully that’ll keep me going for 2 weeks bc you won’t consult with the doctor!!!

Because urology told me my labs are normal. They were like “well you may need to come into the office. Your last CT was normal but that may have been before you were having pain” LMAOOO that CT was done in the ER because I was in so much pain I couldn’t move! But thanks for checking my record!

My doc doesn’t want me walking more than the shortest distances I can but I gotta crutch across the parking lot because your lazy ass couldn’t be bothered to take literally any of the other spots? K

She said she was gonna leave a note on her car lmao

I mean I kinda still wanna send pics to the PD but the last thing I need is someone whom my downstairs neighbor describes as “crazy” being upset at me. But also don’t fucking park in the accessible spot if you don’t need it