Says Monkey, 'Our Day Will Come!'

What shall I tell you about? There are a thousand and one things millling about in my brain lately...

1) I phoned the transplant center who will be dealing with my daughter's kidney transplant.When they told her that there are better results when the organ comes from a live donor, I could only think that I want to be the donor! After about half an hour on the phone answering medical questions, the manager said she'd send me an info packet. There are many tests that need to be done to determine if I really can give her my kidney and it's going to me a nightmare to arrange all this from so far away but... it can be done.

My daughter didn't even know her blood type.. the FIRST place you start when looking for a match, but I know mine is A.. Two or three days later, my daughter texted me, she'd had her blood typed and.. it's such a miracle to me, it still makes me come up in goosebumps.. she's an AB.. known as the 'universal recipient' type. She can match other AB, B and A!

Lou is being supremely supportive. I had thought I would enlist my folks to home and help me during my recovery. She stood up to her full 5'2'' and told me a thing or two, LOL. She's taking time off no matter what Uni say and coming to look after me.

I need to call my GP here. I have NHS so aftercare shouldn't be a problem but it still might be smart to include the doc from the beginning.

2) Work. We're due to be moved to Manchester in mid August. The first bunch of people have already moved over and it's causing havoc. When they moved, they stopped doing the support work for our branch. We were told on a Friday they'd stop the following Monday.. leaving 80 breaches undone. We've had two colleagues find other jobs already so we're running shorthanded.. and now we have to find a way to get these extra breaches done (within at most, two weeks time before their court dates arrive).

On top of this, the branch has been hit hard by illness, including Swine Flu. One department has been taken down by more than half! Just yesterday, a member of my court team had to be driven home. An ambulance was called as the health service doesn't want the flu sufferers coming into the clinics and speading their germs... and the ambulance crew diagnosed the Swine Flu! CRAP!!

While all this mayhem has been happening, the branch has been running without any Managers. Our First Line Manager has been on a Fire Safety course for the WHOLE freaking week. Seriously. I have to ask, is a week really necessary? Will she return a certified firefighter or something? It may not matter, really. When she is there.. she seems to be ignoring us, like she's just waiting for the time to pass till we're all shipped off the the other location and she doesn't have to deal with the upheaval anymore. She doesn't fight for us, never tells the talking heads when it's obvious things haven't been thought through, just appears to sit in her email all day.

The other bigwigs have been on a team building week.. also affectionately known as a tree hugging session. What the fuck are they doing? Falling backwards all week, hoping to be caught by eachother?

The atmosphere is unreal. We're being buried by work with no hope in sight and just waiting for the bitching to start. I can't describe it except to say we just laugh at the bad stuff anymore.. No sense letting it get to you. My joke today was to write 'Titanic Staff' on the back of my entry pass. Maybe the description I'm looking for is 'gallows humor'.

3) I think I did really well on my job interview! We should hear by the middle of next week. please please please let this happen for me!

So.. I am alive and well, full of ever so much shit, my eyes should be brown. x