So my day yesterday started with me getting on the scale and finding I've gained 10 lbs, despite working out a lot and eating pretty well. Is 27 when your metabolism comes to a screeching halt or what?
Went to yoga and lifted, had my laptop with me to bring to a print shop to have my invites printed but I forgot something so I went home. I went to open up the document and my computer had done an automatic restart to install "important updates" and ate my invitation template that I'd agonized over in photoshop for two days.
So then I go to work. I work at a group home for 4 mentally disabled clients. We had one that was supposed to just be there for 7 days, but it was day 8 and no plans to move him. He has extremely severe dementia and belongs in a locked unit, but no nursing home type facility will take him because he also has severely aggressive behaviors. So we get him, but we aren't equipped to deal with dementia as bad as his. He should be in an adult behavior facility but his sister didn't want him there, despite the recommendation of multiple doctors (one of whom he tried to punch yesterday!)
So everyday he's quiet and sleepy most of the day until 2:30 rolls around and then it's 8 hours straight of trying to avoid being punched, keeping him from going after other clients (one of whom is wheelchair bound, very sweet, but not aware enough to stay out of the way), trying to keep him from going into client's rooms, trying to keep him from going outside and running off, cussing at people, threatening people, getting into things. He punched my boss so many times that she felt nauseous. So she called the sister and she came over and he was going after her and her husband too. Meanwhile I just kind of float around taking care of everybody else and making dinner.
So finally the cops are called. Not to throw him in jail or anything like that but there comes a point where a client is so aggressive and we can't legally restrain beyond a short hold. Clients also need to go to the ER before they can be admitted to, say, a psych hospital and there was no way we were going to be able to transport him with how aggressive he was being. So now that SHOULD be over and HOPEFULLY he will now be in a facility that would be better matched to him, but last I heard last night there weren't any openings so who knows.
Our house nurse is pissed that he ever came here. He is way beyond our scope. But this company does this kind of thing a lot where they say a client will just be around for 7 days and they end up there for 7 years and that's exactly what would've happened if my boss hadn't had the sense to throw up her hands and put a stop to it. Our house officially isn't a behavior house or a high care house so we're at the bottom of the pay scale, yet we do have a high care client and we've always had one high behavior client or another. Our house has such high turnover that I've been working there a year and only one person has been there longer than me, and she has me beat by a month.
So anyway I get done at 11, come home and go to bed. FI and I have recently decided to move, and we planned to move into the apartment off his uncle's house that is really nice but $300 cheaper than what we have now. We were really excited and have been looking for new jobs and stuff, planning on moving in June. Well he got a call last night that his uncle called up his dad completely hammered after a fight with FI's grandma who also lives there. He has had a problem with alcohol before and really shouldn't be drinking at all with his health problems so now we're worried that our plans might not work out if this may end up being a consistent issue. He's an... interesting personality to begin with and if he's drinking a lot he is not going to be bearable.
Which would mean no new place, no move to where we want to be, no change of job for FI, no transfer of schools and job for me, can't have a puppy or a garden or the zillion other things we were planning on if we got this place.
So now I'm just trying to get together the motivation to redo invitations and I'm like
Tonight I think we'll be walking to BDubs and drinking all the beer and then we don't have to drive home.