It is tough NOW. So how are we coping

Rummer

Hello kidcat, thank you for that welcome. I am getting there slowly and looking forward to catching up with friends on here again. Not caught up with the things I have missed yet, probably going to take me a few days.

pagangirl

Do you ever feel as though you should've gone back to bed and started the day again? last 2 days have been like that for me

[FONT=&quot]Tuesday had appointment at Dr's in morning & C A B afternoon. IBS decided to kick off early am, 11 toilet stops and 2 immodium later - managed to get moving.

[/FONT] Today - went to NHS drop in centre for blood tests as never made it there yesterday, walked to retail park - tripped/fell over by bus stop - blood everywhere, managed to get to B00ts pharmacy, where nice lady mopped me up, back to drop in centre for dressing on 1 hand, cleaning up skinned knees and gravel burn on other hand. Need to keep dressing dry for 48 hrs - which means I can't wash me hand eeew - hygienic - not :eek: Have to go back friday for dressing to be changed, and to check all gravel out of cut.

Arrrrrgh :mad: - keep your fingers crossed peeps that tomorrow is going to better - anyone else round here who says things come in three's will not live to see the day out !!!:rotfl:

Rummer - hi, from a longtime lurker !

Rummer

Pagangirl, sounds like you had quite a day! I hope that you feel better soon.

charlies-aunt

pagangirl wrote: »

Do you ever feel as though you should've gone back to bed and started the day again? last 2 days have been like that for me

[FONT=&quot]Tuesday had appointment at Dr's in morning & C A B afternoon. IBS decided to kick off early am, 11 toilet stops and 2 immodium later - managed to get moving.

[/FONT]Today - went to NHS drop in centre for blood tests as never made it there yesterday, walked to retail park - tripped/fell over by bus stop - blood everywhere, managed to get to B00ts pharmacy, where nice lady mopped me up, back to drop in centre for dressing on 1 hand, cleaning up skinned knees and gravel burn on other hand. Need to keep dressing dry for 48 hrs - which means I can't wash me hand eeew - hygienic - not :eek: Have to go back friday for dressing to be changed, and to check all gravel out of cut.

Arrrrrgh :mad: - keep your fingers crossed peeps that tomorrow is going to better - anyone else round here who says things come in three's will not live to see the day out !!!:rotfl:

Rummer - hi, from a longtime lurker !

:eek: Pagangirl! What are you like! Suggest you put your feet up tonight and take things easy! You just get those days when everything that you touch goes wrong - I know I do ! :rotfl:

There's a silver lining though - if you have to keep dressing dry = no washing up :T


On a serious note, I have been feeling down just lately, big bills, bad weather, tough time at work......feeling very, very sorry for myself but life seemed terrible and depressing .... life has a way of making you take a reality check ..... and count your blessings. Our neighbouring villages are Winteringham and Winterton, where one mum found her beloved 19 year old son dead in bed on Monday morning and the other was notified that her lovely 18 year old son had died at a friends house after they had been persuaded to try the legal high M-Cat at a party the night before.

Awful, awful, awful - how do you live through that?

I'm never going to moan about being hard-up again.

kidcat

Hugs pagan girl and charlies aunt. And yes there are some days when I want to go back to bed and start over, trouble is if I went back to bed I may decide not to get up again, so its probably best you cant do that!!

Am struggling with exhaustion having gone five days with no real sleep, i am struggling to sleep now that I can. And dithering with decision making.

We have found a house that would suit our needs (but needs work) but its ridiculously overpriced, and realsitically before I can place an offer I need to get a mortgage agreed. And therein lies the problem, I just cant bring myself to actually make the call and organise a mortgage quote! Not sure why, maybe its the idea of so much debt that my mind cant handle or maybe its something else. I do know that I stand a chance of losing the chance if I dont move but I just cannot make myself do it. Need big kick up backside

Primrose

pagangirl - definitely sounds like you need a duvet day tomorrow. Hope you're soon feeling better.
Charlies-aunt - yes, I saw those two tragic deaths in the news. What on earth do you do to impress on our young people that drugs are just simply not worth the risk? Drug dealing is becoming so widespread across the nation now that I fear that only something drastic like the death penalty for pushing will deter people from ruining the lives of some many of our young people. How on earth you try and comfort parents who have endured many sacrifices to bring their children to adulthood, only to see their lives snapped out just as they are about to start fulfilling their potential I don't know.

charlies-aunt

kidcat wrote: »

We have found a house that would suit our needs (but needs work) but its ridiculously overpriced, and realsitically before I can place an offer I need to get a mortgage agreed. And therein lies the problem, I just cant bring myself to actually make the call and organise a mortgage quote! Not sure why, maybe its the idea of so much debt that my mind cant handle or maybe its something else. I do know that I stand a chance of losing the chance if I dont move but I just cannot make myself do it. Need big kick up backside

Is your subconcious mind trying to tell you something here?
I went on a course a while back for lone working to help cope with difficult, disturbing and dangerous (psychopathic) customers...the guy who was running the course really stressed the importance of 'gut feeling'....it may look good, it may sound good and be the best thing since sliced bread ..but if you get that uneasy feeling that things aren't quite right - your natural intuition and self protect mechanism is kicking in and warning you to proceed with extreme caution.

taplady

(((hugs))) to charlies -aunt and pagangirl

charlies-aunt -such sad news - I too heard some similar news - a friend at work's nephew is dying at home from stomach cancer at only 19(similar age to my 2 boys) and lack of money is absolutely nothing in comparison.
Really make you put things into perspective doesn't it.

BitterAndTwisted

Like a lot of issues the problem of people taking illegal drugs is very complex. It is disturbing to know how commonplace and "normal" it appears to have become, particularly in the last 10 years. Also, the concept of risk isn't that well-formed by the very young who all appear to believe that they're utterly invincible. I know I did at that age

ceridwen

charlies-aunt wrote: »

Is your subconcious mind trying to tell you something here?
I went on a course a while back for lone working to help cope with difficult, disturbing and dangerous (psychopathic) customers...the guy who was running the course really stressed the importance of 'gut feeling'....it may look good, it may sound good and be the best thing since sliced bread ..but if you get that uneasy feeling that things aren't quite right - your natural intuition and self protect mechanism is kicking in and warning you to proceed with extreme caution.

As a strong advocate of weighing up the pros and cons - and also listening to that "gut feeling" - I agree with that.

There's been times in my life when I've ignored that "gut feeling" and lived to regret it.:( Then again - there has been times when I've reacted to that "gut feeling" and it turned out that there was some unpleasant fact about a person or situation that I hadnt been aware of at the time - but my "gut feeling" protected me from "going with it" and I've been very glad I DID listen to it. Maybe it boiled down to me registering some tiny little relevant fact about the person/situation that I wasnt consciously aware of the time. Maybe it was a "guardian angel" looking out for me.

I've not decided which it is - and ultimately came to the conclusion that it doesnt matter WHAT it is that is warning me not to get involved - as long as the message is correct and I take heed of it IYSWIM.