The Importance of Being Idle

More Tests. Woo!

Well I had my second lot of tests today, and they went okay. The nurse I had nattered on for ages about things though, so we didn't have time to do my ECG and I have to go back again for that before the appointment with the doctor on Thursday. Despite that I was pleased though, because besides the obvious problem of my being overweight, I'm actually in decent health; my blood tests are okay, my pressure is normal, my lungs work normally... I'm just carrying some extra weight. It's weird because about this time last year the weight was all they were worried about (along with the sacred BMI chart and I think we all know how I feel about that!), but there has apparently been a change within the medical community and they accept that you can be healthy just heavy. She even said I was a large person and being skinny wouldn't suit me! It was probably all of this chat which took up the appointment, although she said the ECG wasn't actually on the list of requested tests (even though I'm fairly sure it was). Anyway, that's that done, at least until Thursday when I have to go back again!
Hopefully Shaz is at the police station giving them the copies of my documents that needed to be handed in. At the accident scene I had to nominate a police station to take the documents to, and as I only know of one station in Peterborough I picked that, not knowing that the doctor would ban me from driving for a week and it'd be next door to impossible for me to get there! So she's kindly agreed to do yet another errand for me whilst I'm grounded. She hasn't phoned yet to say there's a problem, which is oddly what I'm expecting although for the life of me I couldn't tell you why; I'd far prefer a phone call or text to let me know it's all done and I don't have to worry about that any more. Funny how I still automatically expect everything to go wrong, although maybe not THAT funny given how the past week has been!
Although I had a mini-freak out yesterday about the job, I've been surprisingly calm today. I guess that's what comes from being signed off and from basically still having a job, even if it'll be vastly different when I get back to it. Thing is what I'll be going back to just doesn't sound right; longer hours (if that's possible) but more irregularly, and a lower rate of pay. Somehow that doesn't sound right to me at all. Shaz has already pointed out that I've got the experience as a driver now to start looking around at more, shall we say, professional companies, and she's not wrong. I could be earning a decent enough wage and not doing crazy hours to boot, which would be nice given that I have plans to actually try and have some sort of life this year. I don't think that's asking much, do you?

posted by BadMonkey @ 5:28 PM