We all need to be heard for a little while.

tea_lover

I have to do similar with broadband/TV WaS, it is so silly. Like you say, I'll have to go through the whole charade of pretending to flounce off and then they tempt me back. Why can't they just offer a sensible price to start with?!

Grr.... my mood is not improving any this week! Temp I'm training is getting on my nerves, P cat is living up to his name and peeing everywhere (annoying in itself, but mostly I'm worried about what's upsetting him), still have evil PMT.

Roll on tomorrow!

Waves_and_Smiles

Exactly, tea! It is such a waste of everyone's time because they know practically everyone who says they want to cancel doesn't mean it. If I know this and they know this why are we wasting 5 minutes of a phone call discussing it?

P cat should calm down once OH has moved out and you get into a routine. I had a cat who was very similar, if WaSp and I even slightly argued she would pee, sometimes right on the sofa while staring at us! She would also do it if anyone unfamiliar came into the house. It drove me mad but from her point of view it was the only form of communication she felt that she had.

My TOTM is due when I am holiday next week because that is Murphy's law and Murphy hates me. Then the next one is due when I am staying with my teacher friend. The same thing happened the last time I visited him. I am sure it finds it amusing to time it just right.

tea_lover

Yep! I'll quite often only have a couple of year - but they still manage to appear at the most inconvenient times. Blumming hormones.

Feel like I might burst with stress at the moment. Got a horrible feeling that P cat is picking up on that. Then the thought that I'm making him feel bad and upsetting him makes me even more stressed! Is there a human equivalent of feliway??

Waves_and_Smiles

The human equivalent of Feliway is definitely chocolate biscuits. I am sure of this.

P cat might be picking up on your stress, but that isn't your fault. Another cat I had reacted very badly to my moods. If I cried she would paw my tears and cry herself and become absolutely frantic. I took to crying in another room away from her in the end. They do it because love us tea, and it hurts them to see us upset. It is very sweet but I know how guilty it makes you feel.

Birdie85

tea_lover wrote: »

Is there a human equivalent of feliway??

Wine and cookies!

Hopefully P cat will calm down soon!

Welcome NCIS, sorry to hear that you're dealing with such a lot of issues at such a young age. Hope you find a good GP, you'd think that GPs would be keen to take on 'interesting' (IYKWIM!) cases as something to break up the boring day to day ailments they have to deal with, but I suspect they're under so much pressure now that they just don't have the time or energy.

I was a massive wimp yesterday and cancelled my dentist appointment for this morning blaming 'work commitments'! I hate the dentist and lost my nerve so I've rebooked for next Thursday, eeek, I hope I can make it! :eek:

Waves_and_Smiles

Aw, I understand that, Birdie. I haven't been to a dentist for 13 years. There is a reason why but as you are going to one next week I won't tell you! Fortunately so far my teeth have been fine but I know one day I shall have to go and I completely dread it. However, when I have been I have found the build up to it is usually a lot worse than the reality. I always get myself in such a state and then find it doesn't hurt at all and it is all over in 10 minutes. Then I feel silly.

Plan a reward for yourself after the dentist which you can only have if you go? A new top? A day out with a friend? I was going to say a cream cake but that sounds slightly bad after a dentists appointment. Bribing myself to do these things usually works.

tea_lover

Am glad (in a funny way lol) to find other people that haven't been for ages either WaS! I haven't been for over 10 years. I 'm now at the point where I actually want to go but it's been so long that I'm too scared, as I think I'll get told off. My nice dentist retired a few years ago and I've yet to pluck up the courage to go to anyone else.

Bribery might be the way forward! How silly - I'm a grown woman! Even if a dentist did tell me off (which they probably wouldn't anyway) I'm sure I'd cope!

Hope you're braver than us wusses birdie - you can put us all to shame :rotfl:.

Waves_and_Smiles

Hahahahaha! Yes, birdie go next Thursday because then you can come back on the thread and tell us how brave you are and what a pile of wusses we are!

My teeth are quite stained from years of smoking roll ups so I really should go and have them cleaned. Plus I have a shattered tooth at the back with tiny pieces embedded in my gum. Does that make me go? Nope, I wait until they work themselves out naturally. Big wuss right here!

Birdie85

Oooh you're such wusses! I shall go next week and brag about how brave I am! Sadly there will be no treats straight after as it's in the middle of the day so my treat will be going back to the office! I only go every 12-18 months which I thought was bad enough. My current dentist just loves to do x-rays every time I go which I know is good in theory but I really hate it. I can't breathe well through my nose so struggle with having things in my mouth and then I panic, then I gag, then I cry... it's not pretty! I only had my first proper 'treatment' in my mid-twenties (an extraction one year, a filling about 18m after that) yet I've hated going for as long as I can remember! My DH didn't go to the dentist for about 8 years as he felt fine yet had to have fillings every time he went and got fed up of all the work... then I badgered him into going for a check-up and he had to have 8 fillings over 3 sessions! Poor, poor man!

onomatopoeia99

Substantially more than a decade since I've been to a dentist as well. Being given my first filling without being offered anaesthetic when I was sixteen did not improve my opinion of them or interest in going once I moved out for university and my parents stopped organising appointments. Last time I went was at the behest of the ex as she was organising appointments for herself and her children and me going as well meant they were less likely to kick up a fuss about it.