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- Well, it finally happened. My nightmare came true. Because of a collapse and hospitalization in February from chronic kidney disease I'm a COVID-19 high risk, so this Fall I've had to teach live streaming full time from home. My community...
- My best friend since 1982, D., who was my best man at my wedding in 1992, has died of COVID-19. The family today asked me to officiate as minister at the funeral Saturday, Nov. 14th. I was a hospital chaplain for 10 years, so of course I will,...
- I've had a restful time in my community college's Fall Break yesterday and today. Now it's time to get back at it again tomorrow. I have 8 months left in my 40 year teaching career to make it to retirement. I nearly went on disability more...
- I'm coming to the end of a 40 year career teaching at the high school, college, and university levels. My human resources department at the school where I teach told me I'll be 100% vested in my state pension come July 1, 2021, so I've been...
- Just in case you think my reply to my thread about testing in my live streaming classes I'm teaching is the usual reply giving thanks for your support, I wish it were but it's not. Things got worse today, so if you'd go to that thread here I'd...
- It's the stressful time of the semester for me teaching death and dying classes to nursing students at my community college. We have 3 big exams in the course between August and December and starting tomorrow I give mine on Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's...
- Another news story in USA Today brought on anxiety about my plans to retire back to Mexico where I grew up, with Uruguay, as a missionary kid. I got PTSD in my family's years of missionary service during 6 years of civil war in Uruguay south of...
- When I was a kid in Uruguay during the civil war there in the 60s from 1966-72 when I was 8 years old until I was 14, a peace song by Johnny Cash from the anti-war movement in the USA got played there that was about an end to war everywhere. I...
- At my job as community college instructor, I've got an unusual teaching load since I teach Spanish half time and I teach psychology half time because of my two previous careers and having grown up in Mexico and Uruguay. You'd think suicide...
- I have kept a lid on my anxiety up until now, but today I get 6 month test results to see the extent of my kidney damage from diabetes meeting my too high dosage of Seroquel. I'm on Prazosin now, which is processed by the liver and not the...
- Is anybody else falling behind in keeping up with stuff this week? I'm SO grateful tomorrow's Labor Day so I can catch up on emails, both personal and professional. I had to let them sit this past week while I scrambled to convert 9 years worth...
- Thanks to everybody who replied to my "Requesting Hump Day Support" thread yesterday. Now as Thursday winds down, I know I'm going to make it as a community college instructor through this hard 2nd week of this pandemic school year's start. I'm...
- Thanks for the support in my going back to school this past Monday. It got me through. I've been scrambling, like teachers around the world, to convert years of face to face lesson plans to online instruction for a bunch of courses I'm teaching...
- Today was my first back to school day at my community college. We had our all college meeting, but virtually this time via Zoom. It went fine, but it was weird. I guess that's just our new pandemic normal, though, huh?I'll be teaching all...
- Thanks for the CL time off these past 2 week as DS PTSD. It was my first vacation from volunteer work here in 8 years. It wasn't a vacation, though, really, because as you know it was a last minute self care measure I had to take to devote...