Tuesday, May 3, 2011

iep season

So tired I could cry. :) Sounds like a country song. I took a nap from 8 to 9 just to try and survive. I'm semi falling asleep at stop lights! Went to bed at 3 on Sunday night, 12:30 last night...(luckily I napped yesterday too)....it's almost 9:45 and I hopefully can be done with my highest priority stuff by 11:00::crosses fingers:::....today I had 10 minutes to eat lunch and I felt lucky! The day before I didn't get a chance to eat lunch or even go to the bathroom until 4:30pm. It's my own fault, I am new and trying to figure out too much, it was not this grueling when I was shadowing the OT whose caseload I inherited! I just need to speed up and get things under control. In the meantime, utterly exhausted. I've gotten several blog emails lately - it may be at least this weekend (or worse) before I reply, just FYI. Always happy to hear from people though! Just not quick to respond these days.

Let me reiterate that if I wasn't the perfectionistic OT that I try to be, I wouldn't be quite as insane with my schedule. More or less all my own fault. Don't be scared of school OT! (Although IEP season really is rough. My cat agrees, he is trying to help me write this). Okay I had to rant. Back to work.

Posted by Karen at 11:44 PM

2 comments:

Tonya said...

I am feeling a little overwhelmed too. I have too many evals to get done and write, and not sure when I will find the time to do that. I do not stay up late to work though. Can't do it. I will stop treating kids in order to do evals and write them up before I stay up till 3 am.

May 4, 2011 7:34 AM
Anonymous said...

Hang in there! You are not alone. Please try and take time to eat (This advice coming from someone who does the exact same thing. My car/rolling office needs cleaning after the busy schoolyear.
Get plenty of rest. If you fall asleep while driving, well...

After my first year in the schools, I keep a list of all of my students and the due dates of their I.E.P.'s. I have enough time to take data/prepare for updating the present levels of performance before the actual due date. I also send out e-mails to the "folder holders" a few weeks before the meeting to remind them to include me on any correspondence for upcoming meetings. I still have the frantic phone calls, "the I.E.P. meeting is in an hour--can you come and can you help update the I.E.P."--but it happens less frequently.
--Hugs!!! J in GA (60 students, 6-7 schools/day--wouldn't trade it for a minute!)

May 28, 2011 9:02 PM

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