Covid Support Thread
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Anon, Copa and Wendy – do the best you can and cut yourselves breaks when possible.
Family in Georgia have already gotten their COVID boosters. They are taking no chances since any venture to Kroger or Trader Joe’s is a likely encounter with the unvaccinated.
I need to schedule a shingles shot (aka the shongles shit). I’ll talk to my GP when I visit in the Fall. Next week I get to experience that other joy of turning 50… the colonoscopy. I have to stock up on something I have never had before: gatorade. Doctor said fasting, soup and water is not acceptable. I asked whether I could mix the gatorade with vodka since that was a lovely clear liquid. She was not amused.
My friend just had the colonoscopy. She got the Michael Jackson drugs, and she said they were amazing.
Omg. I hate Gatorade and all drinks similar to it. I don’t even like lemonade. Thank goodness I’m 9 years out from that.
I missed all my appointments last year. Went to both my GYN and General Practitioner this summer and they both reminded to get my mammogram so doing that in a few weeks. I’ve had that, imaging and even a biopsy done in 2014 because of a breast cancer scare, so I’m ok with that check up.
Oh my god I had the WORST day yesterday after the vax. Man they weren’t kidding about those side effects! I had a massivd fever, glands were huge, sore throat, chills, the whole shebang. Granted I’m on immune suppressants so it was probably inevitable but wow, lucky I didn’t have to go anywhere. Feeling back to normal today which is almost surreal after how bad it was yesterday but also a good reminder that I’d hate to see what actual covid felt like (although funnily enough it was eerily similar to the bad illness I had last March so who knows, maybe I had it and got lucky).
I have crohn’s so I have had two colonoscopy’s in the last 10 years (I’m 45 and almost due for another one). The prep is way worse than the procedure. The 2nd one, I had different prep ingredients and it was way worse than the 1st time. It involved gatorade. By the time it got to the end of the prep, I just could not take another drink. I nearly vomited just thinking about having to take another drink (not that there was anything left anyway). The procedure went fine but afterwards there is all this gas buildup and it has to come out…it was painful for me. Hope your procedure goes smoothly @lisforleslie!
And @Kate the drugs are amazing…too bad they don’t last longer 🙂
Glad your feeling better today @Ange.
Does anyone else feel like their work culture has gone in the shitter since the pandemic? We used to be quite civilized where I work (big company, financial services). No meetings after 4, Fridays very chill, nothing crazy. We’ve been remote this entire time since March 2020, and it’s now like, meetings at 8am or even 7:30, meetings at noon, meetings at 4:30, 5. Regularly. And while you’re in that meeting you have to multitask, and people are pinging you on Teams asking questions that need to be an email, not caring if you show as busy. And people are working at night, and just generally way overextended.
And in the last 6 months, my boss has become noticeably unhinged. There are a few things I know of going on with her, and probably some things I don’t, but she’s acting bonkers on the regular now. We’re all like what the fuck.
She’s frantic a lot, often visibly acting frantic in front of business partners. And she says bizarre stuff to me one-on-one. Like about personal stuff.
Today she gave me the weirdest piece of feedback “because she cares about me.” I presented something to the CMO this morning and she had told me I did an awesome job. Then later in a meeting we had about something else, she said it again, that it was great, and then she was like, “wanted to give you one piece of feedback, you didn’t do this today, but sometimes when you’re presenting you *look up, like this*, and imitates me, which, now that she mentions it, I think I do when someone asks me a question and maybe I’m recalling the data while answering? Basically I’m thinking about what i want to say. She told me it makes me look dumb, and she doesn’t want me to do that, because I’m youthful looking and attractive – no really, she said this – and she cares about me, and as soon as I start talking, people know I know what I’m talking about and have command of the data, but I should be aware of my facial expressions while presenting.
This reminded me of one time my Zoom froze in our 1:1 and she made a screenshot of my face and sent it to me and laughed about it! It was basically that face because I was answering a question and thinking. But she didn’t give me the feedback at the time, just laughed at me.
Honest to god. Good thing I have a thick skin.
Anyway, I ran that interaction by my mom who was most recently an HR professional, to see if she thought it was weird, and she thinks it’s all good and fine, so I’ll just take it as a nicely intended piece of feedback that I’ll use.
My work schedule has always been a bit wonky because I work around my clients who are in different time zones, so I have absolutely no frame.
Your boss is weird. It may have been feedback she got when she was younger and she hasn’t weeded it out as stupidly gendered behavior.
If you are close enough you could say something like “oh my god, you sound like those old men on the street who tell me to smile – what’s going on with you and facial expressions?”
Yeah, the early meetings are often to accommodate India, which is fine, but Bangalore folks are online until 11 or 12, they work different hours than we do. And often it’s just because that’s when calendars are free. Like, yeah, but that’s when people need to drop their kids off, or work out, or whatever things people do in the morning. And there needs to be time for people to eat and pee during the day but increasingly there isn’t.
I agree, she’s weird. She’s a good person with good intentions, and I do appreciate that she’s direct and gives feedback, but that was pretty cringe. I know her from years ago, but we aren’t, like, personal friends, just have a good working relationship.
Yep, I feel like it’s slipped into toxic territory. My friend joked about wearing a diaper at work, and how her desk chair is now a permanent part of her ass. I gained TWENTY POUNDS and literally did not notice. And told my husband i was going to fucking kill him one day when he questioned why i had two laptops in my bag. Granted, that was while I was working two jobs at the same time, and I stopped doing that. I have to be very deliberate now about exercising in the morning before starting work, and have lost a lot of the weight and am mentally and physically healthier, but I see other people in that mode and it’s not ok.
I agree the line is blurred, but for the past several years I’ve been mostly remote so it wasn’t a huge shift for me. Nonetheless, I will fully admit that when lockdowns started I scheduled meetings on typically verboten time points – because my feeling was “well no one is travelling for Easter so I guess I can schedule on Good Friday.”
But if people complained, I moved the meeting.
