Work

As many of you will know I have just got back to work after 6 Months off sick, with depression.

At the moment I am only in 3 days (well morning but I was only ever working mornings in the office anyhow!) Monday, Thursday & Friday. Its strange because I am getting back into things but its a bit piecemeal and I am having to work quite hard at making sure nothing gets missed at the moment, I think I am just about managing it although my work load for tomorrow is pretty heavy as I realise that there are several things I have not got done that need doing before the weekend.

Anyhow, today I had a meeting with a guy who is going to be borrowing some office space from us, for a while at least, just to discuss things and show him round the office, he seems a nice enough guy so I don’t think there will be any problems getting on with him, we then went to Jaffa for a coffee, well i had coffee he had a hot chocolate, have also registered that he turned down the offer of a coffee at a later meeting so am really concerned that he might be a heretic who doesn’t drink coffee, I am sure that God will forgive him so I guess I will have to as well, although having someone in the office that doesn’t drink coffee will be a bit strange.

today there was also the regular monthly Pastors Prayer Lunch, attended by several people in leadership from churches across the town.

I was responsible for setting up and getting things ready and needed to be prepared to be there for a bit as David G had an appointment late AM, in the event he was back before the meeting had started.

So I had planned to stay for at least some of the meeting, which I did, it was good to see some faces that I had not seen since being off sick.

Anyhow, I stayed for quite a bit of the meeting but then ‘flopped’ pretty tired so escaped, spent a while in the office doing stuff, not too taxing, and then got a lift home with joy, who had been out to lunch with Meryl.

Got home and crashed for an hour or so, am now feeling much refreshed, but I am still constantly needing a sleep during the afternoon.

So, although I am back to work I am still having to be really careful that I don’t over do things, I am getting used to it though and know when I am getting too tired to cope, particularly with social settings, I always need to be mindful of this and have an ‘exit plan’ available to me.

Its incredible to think that I used to work very long hours in a much more demanding job and was on call pretty much 24/7 as well and now I struggle to cope with working past 1pm! But then such is life eh?