Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 2

Wellyboots6

Morning everyone.

Feeling weird today. Looking at stopping breast feeding due to going back to work and I'm not feeling great about it.
I know she will be fine on formula, but it has been such an ordeal to get her to breast feed it seems silly to now be giving up.
Also, with struggling to bond at the beginning and only just starting to feel close to her 'I'm worried I'm going back to work too soon and will ruin the progress, but also that breast feeding is me and her time which I will also be losing.

Such a sulky thing to be getting in to a flap about, I know. Been putting off giving her a bottle of formula for a couple of days now.

Watching the news my problems seem so daft

Gingernutty

Pyxis wrote: »

Have just been reading the Letters page in Radio Times.

I caught a small part of the detective series 'River' a week or so ago, and thought, like a lot of people, that it was a serious version of 'Alias Smith and Jones', where a police detective is killed then comes back as a ghost to help his colleague solve crimes.

However, a letter to Radio Times points out that this is a police officer suffering from a psychotic illness which manifests as hallucinations of his dead colleague, and not a ghost. The conversations the officer has with his dead colleague are conversations with himself.
The letter points out that there are people who manage to function despite being plagued by voices and visions caused by mental illness, and so makes this series compelling drama.

I hadn't thought of that, so I think I'll watch it from now on.

Be careful Pyxis.

PENGUIN: 'River' is the name of the psychotic cop who has witnessed the traumatic death of his close friend and colleague, 'Stevie'.

When she was alive, she was the only person who knew about his 'affliction' and helped him cope with it.

Without her, River falls to pieces and the hallucinations become uncontrolled and interfere with his ability to cope with real life which includes a new colleague and the investigation into Stevie's murder.

Stevie, who appears with a massive crater in the back of her head (she was shot) is one of a number of apparitions, who include a teenage girl who hanged herself, a drug dealer River chased to his death and a Victorian doctor and poisoner who verbally attacks River viciously and causes him to completely lose his grip. :END PENGUIN

It's good, but it's upsetting.

PENGUIN: It depicts mental illness, psychosis, grief, violence and, of course, it's a murder drama; there are descriptions of methods of death. :END PENGUIN

Pyxis

Thanks for the warnings. Does it treat the mental illness side of things factually and sympathetically, or does it go for a sensational aspect?

Gingernutty

Bit of both.

PENGUIN: It shows Rivers lacking the filters needed to stop interacting with the manifestations in public, but it also shows him showing sympathy to the mentally ill - although dead Stevie, announces one partly successful interview with a woman with drug induced psychosis as "Windowlickers. You found your tribe."

There is a counsellor who runs a group therapy session with other voice hearers (showing that it is a 'thing') and, as the series progresses, it becomes obvious that other colleagues, witnesses and suspects also have their mental/situational demons :END PENGUIN.

Wellyboots6

Need an outfit for MIL s wedding at Christmas. Can't be midnight blue as that is their color scheme.
I was thinking a skirt and top and saw some lovely full skirts in Coast but very pricey.
I still have a flabby tummy, my boobs change size by the hour, and it can't show up baby sick.

Ideas please!

Waves_and_Smiles

Hmm, I would really like to watch that show but I am probably better avoiding it sadly.

The whole Paris thing has devastated me but I am avoiding all of the news. I feel terrible doing that, as if I am ignoring all of those poor people but I can't read it, it will make me ill. I am just heartbroken about it. Thank you for saying it isn't my fault, I do feel guilt but I am telling myself that is irrational.

In other news today I can hardly move. All of the cleaning and taking over household things is really hurting my spine and arthritic bits. I am going to see how I feel until Monday but I think I might have to request extra carers until WaSp is better. I will see how I feel. WaSp is very against the idea because it makes him feel useless and he insists he can do things, I am telling him he can't and reminding him that the only reason they let him come home was because he said he was a carer and I couldn't be alone. If he opens the vein again they will very likely admit him for 10 days next time.

WaSp feels fine now but is very bored. He has my old laptop in bed but it is very old so he can't run his games on it. I am chatting away to him a lot and trying to keep him entertained, he has another 9 days of this before he can put weight regularly on his foot again. He isn't tired and dizzy anymore which is good but he has frequent headaches from the pills. So far so good though!

Solarjunkie

Welly - animal print was made for nursing mothers! A wrap dress can accommodate varying boobiness, plus you could add a stonking necklace to make it special. Like this
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ladies-Lovely-animal-print-mock-wrap-dress-size-12-F-F-great-condition-/331704974353?hash=item4d3b283c11:g:P7UAAOSwYHxWQlne

Wellyboots6

I would never have thought of animal print at all, thank you for the idea!

Glad WaSp is feeling a little better WaS. I'm having to skim read your posts as the idea of the whole situation makes me very squeamish, so I dread to think how bad it was for you having to actually deal with it!

Georgiegirl256

Has anyone just watched the new Warburtons advert? It features the Muppets, and who doesn't love the muppets? Totally made me smile!

That dress is lovely btw!

Waves_and_Smiles

That is a lovely dress! Animal print is such a good idea!

Don't worry Welly, I totally understand, so sorry for making you feel icky, I should have penguined it but I was in a panic. With any luck the squeamish bit is over now never to occur again. I certainly hope so because I doubt I could manage to deal with it twice!

I am going to hunt down the muppet advert!