Keeping my distance

It's been almost a week since I last posted. I have been lucky enough to be able to keep my distance from the office area where all of the sightings have been at work. This means I don't have to work where I'm most uncomfortable (for now), but the crappy part is that by keeping my distance from that area I'm sitting by myself instead of with my friends/coworkers. Some people have been good at stopping by to visit, and they even try to remember to invite me on the Timmie's runs. :)

Yesterday a coworker came to me to say that there are still some issues in our area. Last week, as I blogged earlier, a rodent ate through ketchup in a coworker's desk drawer and the entire desk had to be cleaned out. Since then the same coworker had a package of Halls in his desk which was destroyed over the weekend. There was also a t-shirt that was eaten through, which I'm told means they are likely to be building a nest. :( That creeps me out because I obviously don't want them making babies and multiplying at work!

The coworker with the desk issue is now trying to trap them himself. He's leaving bait and traps in his desk, and I'm scared it's just going to encourage the rodents to keep coming around.

Other than these incidents it's been pretty status quo. I stay away from the bad area, but I try to spend a little time each day on the ground floor in the less-bad area especially if I have a friend who's willing to hang out with me, and luckily there's always someone up to the task. I feel as though, since deciding to tackle this issue, I seem less scared than I was, but only when I'm not at risk of an encounter. When I'm at risk of an encounter I have a lot of anxiety. I can't tell you if it's better or worse than before because outside of work I haven't had a perceived "real" risk of encountering them in quite some time.

Tomorrow I go for my second appointment with Megan. I'm excited. :) I think tomorrow we start step one.