Mine lights up, for starters...
I know I've probably mentioned this before, but ever since the husband and I started fostering the Baby (whom we must now refer to as the Toddler because oh my lord do they grow up fast), the care and keeping of myself has sort of taken a back seat to everything else.
Bandit needs insulin. Dogs need fed. Husband needs to know where his wallet, phone and keys are. Baby- sorry Toddler- needs changed, and fed, and now one of our other dogs is giving me cause to worry. Before you ask, I've already had her checked for diabetes, and it's not that. I'm a boss at work (which I suppose could be taken more than one way and is true basically no matter how you interpret that, haha) so I've got work plans and staff issues and projects and other things that I deal with on a daily basis.
Now, I know that all of this stuff is important but there is plenty of time in the day to make sure I eat, and check my blood sugar if needed, and I can take a few minutes during the day to make sure I'm alright. Usually I do. It's the bigger stuff I seem to be ignoring.
Nothing to see here...move along.
Fact of the matter is, I need to make an eye appointment because I'm over due and I know I need new glasses. I have trouble seeing with the ones I have sometimes because I opted to get new sunglasses last year and used up my insurance on that. (New frames every two years, new lenses ever year as long as they have no "additions" like, oh, I don't know...UV protection. Great plan. It's almost like not having one at all.) I also should probably go see that retina specialist again to make sure my diabetic retinopathy isn't worse.
I have an appointment next week to get an ultra sound and another thing done, and rather than give TMI I'll just say it's not on my thyroid...though now that I'm thinking about it I was supposed to get that ultra-sounded before my next endocrinologist appointment. I think. They never called and I don't even remember the last time I was at the endo, so at this point maybe I'll just forget it again.
Also, my throat is sore but if you think I'm staying home from work tomorrow because of it you don't know me very well. For one thing, story time doesn't do itself, and for another, a little Aleve and some Halls Defense and I'll be fine.
No no no. We're not there yet.
Maybe these aren't really BIG things, but they are a few larger than average things that have started to add up, and between Toddler's birth parent visits on our weekends and the fact that I hate to take off of work for any reason if I can schedule something on a day I don't work, my free time is pretty booked already. Plus, I don't want to spend one of the days I have off to spend with the Toddler sitting in a doctor's office...now, sitting in a Doctor's TARDIS would be something completely different. Then I'd have all the time in the universe.
But I don't. So grocery shopping, cleaning, laundry, and whatever else comes up usually take precedence over calling my endocrinologist to get that ultra sound on my thyroid done (which I don't think needs to be done because it's been done before and nothing at all in my blood work or how I feel or anything has changed since he did it umpteen years ago. It's just he has a new Physician's Assistant who won't take my word or my file's word for it. I don't want to go take some expensive health tests that don't need to be done, and will probably cost me money, and will definitely cost me time, and get off my lawn.)
A heroine of children's literature.
Eventually I will get around to dealing with all of this and I'm sure all will be fine. I just need to take a moment or two out of my lunch or on a break and call to make whatever appointments I can, and then schedule out over a few weeks so I don't overbook myself. And I will get each thing on my list taken care of...except maybe that thyroid ultra sound. That's dumb.
