Good news, my face hurts less today. Unfortunately I'm still swollen as shit. It definitely is an abscessed tooth. I've only taken two of the Augmentin, so I'm going to do that another day or two and see how it goes. I am seriously tempted to take one of my lancets and poke this swelling to see if I can get some of the ick out, but that's just me wanting to speed the healing.

I did nothing yesterday. Most of the day, my mouth was huring like a son of a bitch, so I laid in bed and took pain meds (and weed) and contemplated the ceiling. I wouldn't want to do it often, but it was kind of nice to slow down and take it easy. I had a poached egg for breakfast, and wonton soup for dinner. It was excellent and gentled on my poor little mouth.

I did go out briefly, pre weed, to go get the Augmentin, which will hopefully do the trick. And then I went right back to my bed and napped some more.

I'm not looking forward to work today, as it's going to be uncomfortable at best and painful at worst, but I'll get the job done.

I'm hoping it's cleared up by this Friday, because I have a work dinner, and if my upper lip still looks like a chimp, I'm not going. I also am supposed to have my mid-year review on Thursday.

I'm sure it'll be fine, I'm not really worried about it. I just hate them. I had to do my own write up on myself and I hate it. It's much easier for me to say what I'm doing wrong as opposed to what I'm doing right.

Maybe also this week I'll hear more about the job. Right now, I know it'll involve working with the Cardiac slots like I already do, and possibly onboarding, but that doesn't make up a 40hr week. So we'll see. I wonder if it'll also be continuing to work on the STAT list. I enjoy the competitive thrill of getting sick patients in against all odds. When I get to call them and say "Hey, we did some shuffling, and we can work you in on ____." Usually, they're very grateful. I've actually had one cry about how awesome we were and that it's proof that Hopkins cares. (For the record, the people behind Hopkins definitely care. The company probably cares that it's a slot that won't go wasted.)

And how much money are they going to pay me to do this? Inquiring minds want to know! I figure that I've been doing the cardiacs now for at least 7 months. During that time, I've filled an average of 2 MRIs and 4 CTAs a week. I know the MRI is good for at least a couple of thousand from insurance. The CTAs slightly less, we'll say about a thousand. So I've saved them over $150k from being lost due to last minute cancellations. They can afford to give me $30/hr.

I appreciate that several of the sites have recognized me on the Applause site. It's just a certificate, but it makes me happy, and is something to show with how well we work together as a team, us and the sites, which there are occassional gripes about. (TBF, most of those are gripes from us, but still.)

Today will probably be busy as hell, so that should be fun. I'm just going to take it easy and go as slow as I need to in the hopes that as the day goes on, the swelling starts coming down, c'mon Augmentin.

Tomorrow, I defintelly need to consider cooking, I can't keep ordering in. We'll see how I feel as to what I do tonight. Definitely something soft and easy to eat. I may just have my leftover crab benedict. Or I might have that for breakfast with some wontons. They sent two bowls of wontons which is awesome, since they were very tasty and easy to eat.

Okay, on that note, time to hop off and have some delicious coffee. Everyone have an astoundingly good Monday!