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It's Always SOMETHING!

I know that being a mom is already a huge responsibility. As a full-time working mom, I feel even more stretched thin! But how to continue to do both while dealing with your OWN personal health issues?...I'm still trying to figure that all out. February 11, 2021: After a bad headache subsided late in the afternoon, I noticed that the vision in my left eye was funny. I seemed as if I could only see out of the Right side of my Left Eye. I called the Optometrist's office. the next day; they said they could get me in the following week. My symptoms didn't appear to be "emergent" to the receptionist. Unfortunately, over the weekend my vision in my left eye decreased until all I saw was a dark gray blur.  February 15,2021: I immediately called the Optometrist's office again on Monday and was able to be seen that day. The optometrist found that my optic nerve was swollen and referred me to a Neuro-ophthalmologist.  February 18, 2021 The Neuro-ophthalmologist then dia...
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36 and Pursuing Happiness...in Medicine!

  2020...Thank You! I know that seems very dastardly and I am in NO way commenting on the hundreds of thousands of lives lost due to the corona virus in the US alone. But for me, 2020 gave me the face-slap I needed to knock me out of my complacency with my life. And I was complacent, because I had finally found a good rhythm with my life. I woke up, got my daughters ready to go to daycare, dropped them off and went to work, came home from work, helped cook and eat dinner with my family, got the girls ready for bedtime and went to bed. REPEAT. In 2019, I had switched to a new department in my company and for the first time in years, I was actually excited to go to work and to learn how to work in my new role. It took almost 6 months, but I put in the time and effort to seamlessly transition from a Laboratory Biologist II in the Toxicology department to a Clinical Pathology Laboratory Biologist in the Laboratory Animal Medicine department. And I got a pay raise to go with it! Yay for...
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