It's now been one full day on the new pain medication regimen and I'm not sure what to make of it at this point. I didn't realize how much the patch was actually doing to smooth things out. I had the impression that it wasn't doing much, but today I could tell whenever a pill wore off. I've had to continue taking Vicodin faithfully just about every 4 hours and my bowels seem to have the opposite problem from before. The doctor did say that it would take a couple of days for the Methadone to build up in my system, so here's hoping that's the case and tomorrow is a little better, otherwise, the doctor may need to tweak things a little on Monday. Today wasn't great, but it wasn't really any worse than before, just different. The level of pain is close to the same but the pain itself seems a little more pronounced.
Two of my employees came out to Frederick yesterday and took me to lunch. They brought with them a card signed by my whole team and apparently they took up a collection to buy a couple of gift cards to a few area restaurants. That was a big surprise and some much needed validation. As a manager, I don't get many opportunities to find out what my employees think of me. Sure I give them feedback on their performance all the time, but I rarely get any window into their view of mind. Their thoughtful gift tells me that I must be doing alright and makes me all the more eager to get this pain under control so that I can get back to the office. It was just what I needed.
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