The Importance of Being Idle

Dizzy Times

Another day of dizziness, and therefore another day of not going to work. I know I'm not supposed to stress myself about this, but it's hard not to: it's not just that I feel I'm letting work down ('cos I don't really care about their difficulties too much), but I worry about the money I'm not earning, and how we're gonna make it through another month of me hardly contributing anything. Put's even more pressure on Ronnie, and that's not what I want at all.
Speaking of Ronnie, her bosses at work took advantage of all the union reps being off to hurriedly (I mean like in half an hour, without proper approvals or anything) put out a "survey" to see if the tennants would prefer to use a call centre, or maybe on online service! I mean, come ON, this is social housing here people, most of these people can't even afford to have a phone let alone internet access, how the hell are they gonna use these facilities? Besides, everyone who's looked at the survey (myself included) quickly noticed that there weren't any options to say how people preferred a one to one service with an actual human being! So it was pretty obvious it's just a way to gather more information about the viability of closing the area offices. While everybody else was panicking and fretting however, my awesome girlfriend called her union, local councillors and tenants representatives and generally made it well known among the local community that the survey was a sham and just the first step to closing the area offices! People seem to mobilising really quickly too, and I am totally proud of her! Everybody else just sat and whined, but she actually DID something, not just for herself, but also for her co-workers and the tenants and the local community! Whether they win this fight or not, I think she's been amazing!
Yesterday I discovered a website/support group for sufferers of labrynthitis, which was really great. It helped to reassure me that I'm not crazy or making this up, and that I'm not exagerating or fabricating how I feel. I was also really pleased to see that lots of other people had some of the symptoms that I have which the doctor seems to think trivial or even fictional (most notably the feeling that everything is just too bright, like somebodys turned up the brightness control on the world). It's nice to know that other people have felt and are feeling the same way that I do, and that contrary to popular (with doctors!) belief, it doesn't necessarily go away within a couple of weeks.
And now we're on holiday.
That's pretty good news for me, means I can take the next week without worrying too much about how I feel and just kinda relax and enjoy myself a little, so that I can head back to work at the end of the month. We're going away to Whitby for a few days at the end of the week, so that should be fun! More on that nearer the time.

posted by BadMonkey @ 3:56 PM