Feeling Much Better, Thank You!

I am feeling much better. I slept well Monday night and woke up Tuesday a different person. One really cannot overestimate the power of a good night’s sleep. My sinuses have a bit of a different story to tell, but mostly, I’m good!

I’m not sure when/if I mentioned this before but the Pathfinder staff has been super generous in donating sick leave to me. On my own, my sick leave would have been used up as of yesterday and I would be going on long term medical disability with a cut in pay and a need to pay for more health care (that’s right, you get sick and you get paid less but have to pay more….I get it!). But, because of the generosity of my teacher friends, I am now covered through the rest of the school year (or just a few day shy, i’m not sure). That means my deferred pay and full benefits will carry through September! Isn’t that amazing. I feel super lucky, super blessed, super relieved that full benefits  and a full pay check are continuing. Less stress means more energy for healing. So a deep and heartfelt thank you to my teacher friends, you are most generous!! Today, as a tiny way to thank them, I made a trip to Starbucks, picked up 3 boxes of coffee, brought along the 3 boxes of cookies from Trader Joe’s I’d purchased last week, and took it all up to the Pathfinder staff room. It was great to have a few minutes to see staff I love, then I made my way down to the Sky Hall while the K/1 kids were trickling in. I spent a little time in each room there and it felt like a perfect baby step back into that world. If I stay healthy I’d like to do that more often. I miss my community!

We have our tickets for Ireland! Staring fate right in the face we are leaving the exact same date we were supposed to leave last year, July 1. We have tickets for Maggie, Mike and me and I’ll be working on saving up sky miles in hopes to nab Michael and have him join us, too, if he is available. We’ll see. We are spending most of the time on the West coast, a number of days with Maggie’s family in Limerick and then again on the coast in Kilkee. We hope to spend a night on Grandpa’s Island, if that works out. Then we’ll end up in Dublin where we will overlap with Mike, Gillian, and Conor for a few days. I am both cautious and confident in my excitement for this vacation! Cancer sure has me walking many fine lines!

Thank you all for your support and best wishes after my last very depressing and tragic post. I appreciate your emails, comments, texts. I’m checking in with my mom and they are getting through this, of course.

It feels a little like spring out there, hope you get a chance to enjoy.

More love and less stress to all of you

Janet