Location: St. Augustine, FL
About Me: A high school Biology teacher's coping with rosacea while living in the interesting and sometimes insane world of public education.
April 26, 2006
Rosacea better but surgery wound not healed
Hi all,
It's been a looooong school year. The kids are not working much now. They have basically quit 4 weeks before the end of school. Unfortunately I don't have that luxury and I must trudge on toward the finish line. Today I sent one girl to the office for repeatedly stopping me in the middle of a lecture to ask to go to the restroom. I finally had to stop and ask her if it could wait until I finished. She said yes. It wasn't 15 seconds before she again asked if she could go to the restroom! She basically did this to disrupt the class and gain attention. I gave her the attention she merited by shipping her out. This was the child of a teacher at my school and she is 17 years old, old enough to act in a civil manner in class. That second period class has four malcontents in it who really couldn't care less about being there or learning. They will do anything to stop the class from learning. Little do they know that there is a ton of work awaiting them over the next week, more than enough to keep them occupied. I will instantly get rid of anyone in that class who does not cooperate fully. Sometimes you have to step down hard to gain control when students are antsy to get out for the summer.
The sunburn healed well and I have little trouble with the rosacea (knock on wood!). The surgical scar from the colon surgery still is partially open and leaking each day. I am definitely not going back to the surgeon since he has little interest in my case once his procedure was completed. He would just slap a bandage on it and tell me to wait until it healed. I really don't need that type of treatment at this point so I'm just going to hope that the wound will eventually close up on its own. I was hoping that I would be well by now but I guess it wasn't to be. Perhaps I can rest some at the beginning of summer vacation and give it a chance to close up completely. All the moving around in class that I do seems to really keep the wound from properly healing.
Tomorrow and Friday we have a lab on the brain. That should hold their interest, at least for a little while. One can always hope.
Posted by on April 26, 2006 04:52 PM