PT-LawMom

Work — Well, I finished my cover letter, resume updates and edits to my writing sample. I have copies of two excellent letters of recommendation and I’m praying that I can win over the paralegal manager tomorrow. Then my only hurdle is hoping that the attorneys like me (I’m worried the whole law school thing might freak them out — the potential for someone to be unavailable is always worse than the reality) and that they won’t be scared to “steal me” from my boss. So we’ll see how that goes.

Health — I don’t even want to say it, but the pain is coming back. After six weeks of blissful highs on the Cymbalta, the past week has had my legs and feet tingling and burning pretty much constantly. I’m really bummed, but my research suggests that this is somewhat common and that they may just have to raise the dose. I don’t want to take pain meds and I do want the peripheral neuropathy to go away, but they say they can’t cure it and if the only remedy is to be on ever-increasing doses of Cymbalta (the anti-Bow-Chicka-Bow-Wow medication), I’m not sure if that’s a great future. Chapin says he can be patient. I’m worried that I’ll end up on a bazillion mgs of Cymbalta combined with another bazillion of whatever they can give you to put the Bow-Chicka back in your Bow-Wow (assuming there is such a thing for women…). What ticks me off most of all is that I called the neurologist first thing Friday morning and again at 4 p.m. to give my cell in case she called after 5 and I got NO CALL BACK! I can see how seriously she is taking this. Meanwhile I’m wigging out a bit at the fact that I can’t feel my toes and that I keep tripping on things. At least I’m not in as much pain as I was a few months ago, but the electric zaps from my knees down are weird, weird, weird!

Law School — I printed out all of my notes from each class today in an attempt to get my outlines into shape and to have a sense of what areas I need to read more about. My boss is out several days this week so hopefully I’ll get to actually take my lunch hours and use them to work on my outlines and extra reading.

Pumpkinhead — We went to see the Bee Movie yesterday. It was okay, but I didn’t think it was as funny as everyone said it would be. Then again, I don’t have the greatest sense of humor so don’t go by me. Then we got this need Golden Storybooks coloring book. It lets Pumpkinhead color the pages and then we read the book together. I helped him color some roosters and other farm animals and it was a lot of fun. Today he helped Chapin wash the Big Ass Truck while I worked on my packet for the paralegal job. Now it’s dark out and I really need to get working on my reading for this week! Pumpkinhead is laying on my bed drinking a raspberry/banana/yogurt smoothie (please don’t spill!!!) and watching Tom & Jerry.

Hope everyone has a great week and that the new month brings only good things for all of us!

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