Finished my last two sections of the class today. Now I need to do my two class projects and I will be official as a Doulagiver Care Specialist. I am still waiting on supplies to come in before I can do my case study and wrap up this class.
I made contact with the director of the Emporia Senior Center today to discuss scheduling a public presentation on the work I am going to be doing. He will allow me to do so sometime in September or October. I have to have an event on the calendar before I can graduate and don’t actually have to have held it which is a bit weird but that works for me.
I also want to go to the Senior Center in Cottonwood Falls and make the same offer to them. I’ll try to get in there sometime this week. I was waiting to get my business cards in and they are to arrive by Wednesday if the tracking is to be believed.
Got a letter for the State of KS from the notary department. I thought it was my notary approval but it was to return my application as they no longer process credit cards in office. I have to pay on-line. That meant figuring out how to download a copy of my application that they returned. I remembered that you can scan using your iPad so looked up directions for doing that. The first try was all four pages in one file but that made the file too big so had to send four separate attachments. I was proud of myself for figuring out how to do that. I have the hardest time with figuring out how to manage files.
When I hit the final submit button it told me there was an error and to try again. However I checked my bank account and the funds are showing as pending so am guessing the error was in generating a receipt and not that the application didn’t go through. Now I wait to see if I sent them the right things and that they can read them. Somedays it feels like I take two steps backwards instead of forward.
While I wait for supplies I will start one of the other three classes that I have to take. I’ll start those Monday as tomorrow all three kids and their families are coming for a family day. I am fixing a taco bar for lunch. I have the desserts made and the chicken cooked and shredded. Tomorrow I will brown the hamburger, make nacho cheese sauce and heat up the refried beans. Easy peasy! It will be a fun day to see all the kids – those make the best days ever!
Feeling a bit frustrated as my TSH levels for my thyroid came back way too high again. Eight weeks ago they were too low. I sure wish we could figure out why my levels roller coaster so much. They just don’t seem to want to stay in the acceptable range. I think I am doing everything I can to control them. I take my meds at the same time each day. I wait an hour after taking them before I eat. I have read all the literature and avoid the foods and meds that interact with the thyroid meds. I don’t eat sugar. Not sure what else I can be doing to help level out my levels. I see my Endocrinologist August 23. She may have to refer me to a higher level specialist somewhere. She talked about doing that last year if we couldn’t get things leveled out.
Grateful I completed the lessons for my first class, grateful to my friend at the Emporia Senior Center for allowing me to get on their schedule, and grateful the kids are coming home tomorrow.