Hi,

I am aware that this does not make sense.
If I were someone else reading this, I might be frustrated.
I AM frustrated.

I've worked at this one place for years and I know the culture of the workplace. It is not forgiving with regard to ANY health matters. People don't talk about health.

I will have a 2 1/2 week vacation in Dec.

I'm avoiding adults as much as possible.
Almost all of my students are brand new since August.
They only know me since after the stroke and don't know me from before the stroke. They might notice that I have some speech issues but for them it is part of who I am. (I think the speech is more noticeable than the cognitive stuff even though I am very aware of the cognitive stuff.)
I am aware that I am not doing as good a job with the students as I might do other years and that I might take a hit in my evaluations.

The beginning of the semester (August and September) with them was very hard. We've gotten used to each other recently and I am less uptight about trying to hold things together in front of me.
And they trust me more than they did in August.

Things get yucky when I am out of my comfort zone: meetings, hours of the day I am not normally there, people I don't often deal with, . . . I prefer to be with my students, but that was the case pre-stroke as well. I like my students.


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My writing is bad tonight.
I'm very sleepy. This is a hard subject.
I think I will hit reply without trying to fix the sentences.

I see tdoc Wednesday night -- first time perhaps in 5 or 6 weeks.

M.