I completely agree with you how frustrating and scary it can be to not know what’s going on with your body. And the mental load of just trying to sort through all the things to think about in a day like what to eat and when is a lot. I hope you can get some answers soon! But I’m glad you’ve found doctors willing to listen and search for the answers. Also your kitty is adorable! I love the little bowtie!
Yes, you'd 100% get how I feel although I imagine it's much harder when you have physical symptoms and some unpredictability with how you'll feel each day. Aww thanks about Amelia :)
I always love seeing you out and about doing your thing. And the kitty close up! 😍 Health stuff is difficult.. especially when you don't understand what's going on, hope things will get clearer 💗
Thanks Marcella! I'm going to University of Michigan, 2.5 hours away, to get something shoved up my leg and into my sinuses and brain to take samples along the way to see what's going on. I'm not sure when it'll get scheduled as it's a super specialized procedure done by a sub-specialist.
I also get pay cheques over the summer but I don’t get paid for holidays, which is such a common misconception! Your kitty is ADORABLE and I hope you get to the bottom of your health stuff soon. Thanks for sharing your week with us ☺️💛
Aww thanks so much! Sorry to hear about your cat. I started watching your video as I was getting ready today. Interesting to hear about the UK. You have more term breaks during the year so idk how total work time compares. I think I counted it yesterday and IF we don’t have any snow days (we always do), I work 186 days each year. Best of luck with the end of your term 🤗☀️
You get a longer break that we do! The perspective with the kitty toward the end is so funny. She looks like she is bigger than you. A giant kitty! I hope your doctor finds some concrete information for you soon. I remember how stressed I was before my celiac diagnosis. Google was scary. ❤️🐸
I’m so sorry to hear you’re having some health issues. I hope you get some answers soon. 💜 Your vlog was just so wonderful. It made me wish I were a teacher on summer vacation-even though I left teaching a year ago. 🤣 I don’t miss much about teaching, but I do miss summer break.
OMG how was this posted 11 days ago?! My God I am so behind 🤦♀. Actually that's super interesting about your pay over the summer - those teachers who get zero pay over the summer and don't opt for spreading that money through the year must be super stressed about the summer months 😭. Awww I love a kitty cat feature!!! 😍.
Just watched this today...so sorry you're still searching for answers. I hope you've been able to find out more since you posted this video. Thinking of you 🤗
I'll have to rewatch this to see what I said in it but I'm going to University of Michigan in December to meet with a neuroendocrinologist. They will likely schedule a procedure where they go in through my leg, into my sinuses, and into my pituitary gland taking samples along the way and trying to figure out what is producing the extra hormones. Honestly, it's entirely possible that we caught a pituitary tumor super, super early and that's why it's not showing up on imaging, but my gut has different ideas so maybe I'll DM you the more personal bits ;)
The older I get the more confusing I find my body and its reactions. Go you for doing all the lab works and trying to get to the bottom of things. Hope results will give you answers and ways to go back to stressing less about food.
Re vacation - do you get any paid leave at all? Bert obviously works to term time but has about 6 weeks summer holidays so also gets his pay split up over the year but technically some of the holidays would be paid as i think the leave is just added on to the year (not sure how much sense that makes!). Siân
So our only paid time off are sick days and personal days. The number depends on the district, but typically you get 10 sick days per year and 2 personal days (do what you want days). People accumulate the sick days and rarely use them all so if you had a surgery or something bigger, you could still be paid. PS- I NEED TO DM YOU!!!!!
@@RovingReader yeah you call in sick and get paid up to a certain amount (depends where you work but at least a month and in my last job up to six months).
From a European perspective employment works so weird in the US. 🤔 Hope you'll be able to figure out your medical mysteries soon! 🤞I hate to be the person on the internet to give unsolicited medical advise on the internet - and I'm not! - but you DID get your thyroid gland checked out? That one can mess up a huge part of your hormones... As someone who has had issues every since childhood I'm kind of hyperaware of that... Anyway I hope you'll find out soon! It's the most unsettling feeling to not know, especially if it screws up you actually feeling mostly okay... 🤗
Where are you in Europe again? It sounds like the UK handles teacher pay the same but I know that’s not part of Europe. We do a lot of other things oddly though! Yep, all thyroid labs are normal 🤗
@@RovingReader Yeah, I suppose claiming "Europe" is all the same was a bit far reaching. 😉 I'm from Germany, but employment rules are similar throughout the EU (we seem to be winners in paid vacation 😌which I really value!). True, the UK also works diffrently in many cases and I freely admit to having little insight. 😉 Teachers here are usually official civil servants, they are employed year round and paid their normal salary each month as you would in any "non-seasonal" job. Given we have "only" six weeks summer school break and that is also not all vacation for teachers (depending on where they work they are working at least two weeks of that time even if there's no classes) the situation is diffrent. There's also probably about six more weeks of school breaks throughout the rest of the year which is not fully considered vacation time, because teachers will be doing prep or grading work, even if not teaching. (All that said, I'm not a teacher, but I know a lot of them. 😅)
fun!
Glad you're having fun and taking care of yourself!
Yes! Thank you! I love summer :)
I completely agree with you how frustrating and scary it can be to not know what’s going on with your body. And the mental load of just trying to sort through all the things to think about in a day like what to eat and when is a lot. I hope you can get some answers soon! But I’m glad you’ve found doctors willing to listen and search for the answers.
Also your kitty is adorable! I love the little bowtie!
Yes, you'd 100% get how I feel although I imagine it's much harder when you have physical symptoms and some unpredictability with how you'll feel each day.
Aww thanks about Amelia :)
Lovely vlog, Karen.
Thank you 😊
I always love seeing you out and about doing your thing. And the kitty close up! 😍 Health stuff is difficult.. especially when you don't understand what's going on, hope things will get clearer 💗
Thanks Marcella! I'm going to University of Michigan, 2.5 hours away, to get something shoved up my leg and into my sinuses and brain to take samples along the way to see what's going on. I'm not sure when it'll get scheduled as it's a super specialized procedure done by a sub-specialist.
I also get pay cheques over the summer but I don’t get paid for holidays, which is such a common misconception! Your kitty is ADORABLE and I hope you get to the bottom of your health stuff soon. Thanks for sharing your week with us ☺️💛
Aww thanks so much! Sorry to hear about your cat. I started watching your video as I was getting ready today.
Interesting to hear about the UK. You have more term breaks during the year so idk how total work time compares. I think I counted it yesterday and IF we don’t have any snow days (we always do), I work 186 days each year. Best of luck with the end of your term 🤗☀️
You get a longer break that we do! The perspective with the kitty toward the end is so funny. She looks like she is bigger than you. A giant kitty! I hope your doctor finds some concrete information for you soon. I remember how stressed I was before my celiac diagnosis. Google was scary. ❤️🐸
Oh I believe it! Haha so funny about Amelia, you’re right! 🐈
I’m so sorry to hear you’re having some health issues. I hope you get some answers soon. 💜
Your vlog was just so wonderful. It made me wish I were a teacher on summer vacation-even though I left teaching a year ago. 🤣 I don’t miss much about teaching, but I do miss summer break.
Haha I KNOW! I love summer so so much! What do you do now for work?
OMG how was this posted 11 days ago?! My God I am so behind 🤦♀. Actually that's super interesting about your pay over the summer - those teachers who get zero pay over the summer and don't opt for spreading that money through the year must be super stressed about the summer months 😭. Awww I love a kitty cat feature!!! 😍.
Right?! I just signed up for 26 pays again. I can’t imagine 21 pays… 10 weeks of survival on your own?!! 😅
Just watched this today...so sorry you're still searching for answers. I hope you've been able to find out more since you posted this video. Thinking of you 🤗
I'll have to rewatch this to see what I said in it but I'm going to University of Michigan in December to meet with a neuroendocrinologist. They will likely schedule a procedure where they go in through my leg, into my sinuses, and into my pituitary gland taking samples along the way and trying to figure out what is producing the extra hormones. Honestly, it's entirely possible that we caught a pituitary tumor super, super early and that's why it's not showing up on imaging, but my gut has different ideas so maybe I'll DM you the more personal bits ;)
The older I get the more confusing I find my body and its reactions. Go you for doing all the lab works and trying to get to the bottom of things. Hope results will give you answers and ways to go back to stressing less about food.
100%!
Hope you get some good news from your dr soon.
Thank you!
Re vacation - do you get any paid leave at all? Bert obviously works to term time but has about 6 weeks summer holidays so also gets his pay split up over the year but technically some of the holidays would be paid as i think the leave is just added on to the year (not sure how much sense that makes!). Siân
So our only paid time off are sick days and personal days. The number depends on the district, but typically you get 10 sick days per year and 2 personal days (do what you want days). People accumulate the sick days and rarely use them all so if you had a surgery or something bigger, you could still be paid. PS- I NEED TO DM YOU!!!!!
@@RovingReader ah ok! Interesting! Our sick days dont work like that either!
@pastorytime2683 do they run out at the end of the school year or do you just call in sick whenever you’re sick and they still pay you?
@@RovingReader yeah you call in sick and get paid up to a certain amount (depends where you work but at least a month and in my last job up to six months).
@@pastorytime2683😮❤❤❤
From a European perspective employment works so weird in the US. 🤔
Hope you'll be able to figure out your medical mysteries soon! 🤞I hate to be the person on the internet to give unsolicited medical advise on the internet - and I'm not! - but you DID get your thyroid gland checked out? That one can mess up a huge part of your hormones... As someone who has had issues every since childhood I'm kind of hyperaware of that... Anyway I hope you'll find out soon! It's the most unsettling feeling to not know, especially if it screws up you actually feeling mostly okay... 🤗
Where are you in Europe again? It sounds like the UK handles teacher pay the same but I know that’s not part of Europe. We do a lot of other things oddly though!
Yep, all thyroid labs are normal 🤗
@@RovingReader Yeah, I suppose claiming "Europe" is all the same was a bit far reaching. 😉 I'm from Germany, but employment rules are similar throughout the EU (we seem to be winners in paid vacation 😌which I really value!). True, the UK also works diffrently in many cases and I freely admit to having little insight. 😉
Teachers here are usually official civil servants, they are employed year round and paid their normal salary each month as you would in any "non-seasonal" job. Given we have "only" six weeks summer school break and that is also not all vacation for teachers (depending on where they work they are working at least two weeks of that time even if there's no classes) the situation is diffrent. There's also probably about six more weeks of school breaks throughout the rest of the year which is not fully considered vacation time, because teachers will be doing prep or grading work, even if not teaching. (All that said, I'm not a teacher, but I know a lot of them. 😅)
@@LiteraryMultitudesThat’s super interesting! I love learning how things are other places. ❤