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Well, I have worked in a nursing home as a licensed nurse for almost 12 years. In the past few years before my Lyme dx this past summer, I began to miss more and more time. I worked night shift and my pain and fevers and all seemed to intensify at night. Most of the time they werent nights off that I could actually visit a dr for an excuse...just vague stuff that I just couldnt function at my job well enuff to go in to work. Well, then in summer I was diagnosed and went thru 2 mo of amox. and really really felt(and still feel) better, however I still have times when I feel sick etc. On Christmas night I called off due to flu and they fired me. I was very hurt and angry, but soon realized it may have been Gods way of setting into place a better plan for me. After all, I was miserable at this job for a few years, but dont like change and so may have stayed forever. My comment about all of that is that it is a shame what Lyme sufferers have to go thru cuz no one either acknowledges they have a real illness, or the sicknesses sometimes feel so vague and weird that it just causes all sorts of missed work etc. Several friends said I perhaps should have fought it, but I wanted to just fall into step with something else. After only 2 weeks of searching, I've been hired by Bayada Nurses and am switching my specialty from elderly to pediatrics, and I am happy and excited about it. I am of course scared too, but am hanging in.
The other thing I wanted to mention or ask, was that last night, I got a hot bath and went to bed, where my husband and I had relations(sorry...for lack of a better word) Anyway, afterward as my hubby and I were talking, he kept saying that my words were slurred or I sounded "drowsy" and asked if I had taken pills or something. It really shocked me that he would ask that, but what was weirder was that to me my voice and diction sounded fine. I truly didnt see what he was talking about. I did feel really tired suddenly tho. During the night I had a massive headache, maybe a migraine, which I havnt had in years, but that was never a symptom with the aura I used to get before one. Has anyone else experienced something like this??? Kath
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Kath, congrats on the new job. Change is one of the hardest things. It was sh*tty for your employer to fire you like that though.
I'm also at a job where I am very unhappy, but am on disability. I wasn't missing much work the entire 13 yrs I was sick until the last 2 months or so. I'm suppose to get back to work soon and not sure I can do it, so kudos to you.
As for slurry your words, I wouldn't stress too much about it. Maybe your "relations" were that good that you were actually relaxed enough not to form full words...haha!
Seriously, could have been stress, release of toxins or just a simle migraine. Focus on your new job and not the incident. If it happens again, then worry.
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Kat, If someone says that your speech sounds funny... then it is often a good idea to slow down for a second and see if you can "hear yourself" more closely... chances are, if someone else is hearing it, then there may be some truth to it... and most likely, it is a sign that you need more REST
for a while my co-workers were making jokes about my speech -- i was working in a sales office, so everything is fodder for jokes.. so at first, i just tried to take it in stride or ignore it -- that was dumb!! i should have paid attention and realized that i was not getting enough rest
also, sometimes people were complaining about my grammar in my emails -- i had been a technical writer before, so like a dummy, i just figured that they did not know what they were talking about... but then one time when i went back and looked, i must have been writing in a semi-delirious state ... because it can just creep up slowly, and at the time i didn't know anything much about lyme's, i had no idea!!
sometimes "rest" is not always possible, but we need to fit it in somehow -- been a long ride
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It could have been a die off.
You are still on antibiotics, right?
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