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sooo...about me leaving work early...
I saw my doctor today. He asked me when I was finishing work and I told him the end of this month. And he stared at me. Hard. So I said, "Oh...well....I mean, I thought that would be soon enough....." and he said, "LISA. You are the same size as a full-term pregnancy. You just told me that you can barely get in and out of the car by yourself. Do you know how much harder this will be even a week from now? Frankly, I'd like it if you finished today. I'll give you this week, but you need to stop working after this Friday. NOT two weeks from now. OK?"
Sooo...yeah. Turns out this is my last week at work. At first I was a bit upset at the idea of having to take an extra week off work since I don't have enough sick/vacation days saved up to cover it, but then I realized - duh, I can just move my maternity leave up a week. Obviously it would be nice to only use the mat leave when I have a good chance of the twins actually being born, but on the other hand, I'm getting 28 weeks off. I can certainly afford to use a week or two of it in pre-baby time. And I feel like an idiot for not thinking of it sooner!
I feel sooooooo incredibly relieved right now. I didn't realize just how utterly miserable the idea of going to work every day was - even though I love my job and even though my boss has been incredibly supportive and fantastic with giving me the easiest possible tasks every day, just the sheer effort of getting up and making it through the day was killing me. Not that I need to tell you guys that after my little breakdown a couple days ago, but I really feel insanely, amazingly relieved right now!
Only 4 more days of work to go! WOOHOO!
Re: sooo...about me leaving work early...
LOL I promise I'll take it easy.
As you said, the physical side of things was just getting to me mentally - and I knew it was, but I really didn't realize just how MUCH it was affecting me until I agreed to stop working at the end of this week. I feel a thousand pounds lighter, a million times happier...I'm like a new woman, and I'm not kidding! It must have been worse than I even thought if simply taking one extra week (just 5 working days!) off has made me this relieved.
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That is wonderful news!
Time to relax and unwind and enjoy!
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that will really help I bet.
As much as I hate sitting around not working the fact that my blood pressure has went down and stayed down and my other minor pre-e symptoms have stabilized really have me convinced that my body needed the rest. I can only imagine how much you could use it too
You know, it's funny you should mention this...I've had borderline blood pressure this entire pregnancy, and after I was ordered to quit work, it actually went down to a normal level for the first time ever. Could have just been coincidence (especially since I'm still working for 2 more days), but I really did wonder if it had something to do with me just utterly mentally relaxing for the first time in ages!
Yay yay yay!
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