UPDATE
10 days left of school, but very hard to get motivated. Got irritated at the principal today when we had a staff meeting in the morning and she not-so-tactfully hinted that I didn't need to be there because she was going over things for next year.
Anyhoo, stitches are sensitive and tender but getting energy back and pain is minimal even without pain meds. My friend with the goat milk soap business is paying me to set up and manage her website for her, so it will be some pocket money and something to do.
One of the union guys apparently tried to talk to the principal the other day, telling her that I was going to be hard to replace and that she might not be giving me all the chances that she could be (oh yeah, the phys ed teacher said [he's actually an old high school friend of my mom's] ALL of our employees lose a husband and child in a year. It's not an extenuating circumstance. ) He was beign sarcastic of course.
Oddly enough, another teacher is being deemed as ineffective. She's gone through a divorce, had her teenage son ran away from home to end up in jail last fall, and now her aunt with Alzheimer's is living with her.
Strange how the district is zeroing in on those who are under a lot of stress, and those who have potentially embarrassing skeletons in the closet for the district (teacher with a son in jail, teacher getting pregnant out of wedlock ...)