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

tea_lover

WaS - am glad you got some help and are hopefully feeling better now. It sounds like you were listened to and got what you needed, that's a great relief. This may sound odd but I am so proud of you for knowing what you needed to do and putting that into action, even though it must have been a bit scary for you. You are so brave

Georgie - those callers are so annoying aren't they? How does anyone even make a living from that, it seems like such a massive waste of everyone's time.

Code - rubbish that you're feeling ill, hope you're taking it easy. I gave up on that Moves app btw after it told me I'd done 85 steps yesterday!

Georgiegirl256

So far today I've done 4719 steps. The health app seems to be quite accurate I think.

D's just come back and he's got the 25t March as his finishing date. So about 6 weeks or so of knowledge transfer. At least he knows where he stands now.

tea_lover

Having some actual info to work with has got to be a relief for you both georgie. I'm sure it's the uncertainty of these situations that does peoples heads in.

Izadora

It's not good that his job's ending but at least you've got a bit of time to plan and know what's happening now.

I got a call today as well about an accident I'd been in. I used to be reasonably polite to them, thinking that it must be a rubbish job to have to do, but have reached the stage now where I end up just telling them they're talking rubbish and hanging up. They're better than the debt people who phoned me 3 times a day, every day for 2 weeks, despite me telling them that I didn't have any debt and asking them to take me off their calling list. I ended up answering the phone with such an exasperated list of "No, I don't have this and no I don't want that" that they used to hang up on me.

Torry_Quine

WaS I'm glad that you were able to get the help you needed and that the staff were so kind and supportive. It really makes a difference.

Today I'm summoning up the energy to finish making cards for my husband as it's our anniversary this weekend.

Waves_and_Smiles

Aw, thank you for being so lovely everyone, I like people being proud of me. I spent a decade not being very good at knowing what I needed at all and being a blubbering wreck at A&E but practice makes perfect! I do try to make it as easy for medical staff as possible by saying this is what has worked in the past and this is what I need. I do know that when it has such a bad physical effect on me that it is time to ask for help, the doctors were far more concerned with how high my blood pressure was and how fast my heart was beating at first, I get myself in a state of such paranoia and panic that I make myself ill. Through experience I know that's the time to stop trying to cope alone before I scare myself into a heart attack or something (is that actually possible?).

I am very calm today mainly because of the huge shot of anti-psychotics. I keep dozing off and my speech is all over the place. Ironically the next couple of days is probably a good time to finish The Form From Hell because it likely won't stress me too much. Then I will get WaSp to post it and it's gone. Please cross everything for me that they accept it, if I have to appeal I might as well check myself into a psychiatric hospital for the next few months, I won't be able to face that too without a lot of support and I know it.

pollyanna_26

Lovely to see you back Was. Rest all you can I am really proud you did the right thing . Please go easy on yourself now , you must be so Tired .
Not a chance you will not get the esa approved . The past few days prove the need .
Go easy on yourself sweetheart - it will be ok .
polly xxx

Georgiegirl256

I think so too tea, it was the uncertainty and not being in control of he situation. I think he still was hoping that it would all turn around and everything would be ok and now he's realising it isn't and he's going in abit of a low way. He isn't one to look on the positive side of things, he automatically goes to the worst case scenario.

They must be out in force today (cold callers) Izzy!

WaS, fingers crossed for you. Not that it'll be needed of course, I'm sure your application will fly through no problem.

Flybaby

WaS - big hug and so pleased and proud you got a lovely MOT at the hospital. I was so relieved when you said your brain hurts!!! I was trying to explain the other day that my brain hurt - that I wanted to flip open my head and take my brain out and give it a rub and a scratch - like it was bruised and bashed and throbbing - and my family looked like they were going to call me a white van to take me away and said they had no idea what I was talking about................... I call it itchy brain. There is a headache and there is a migraine and there is itchy brain............ maybe I am not alone in this!


Tea - I am the same as you I think - but I am often accused of my best trait and my worst trait being the same thing - that of being black and white...........I don't lie because I can't see the point in it ............and I really struggle to understand why anyone else does.


The conversation in my house would go:


Me: Did you eat the last caramel egg?
Hubby: There are caramel eggs?
Me.............did you?
Hubby: ...........grinning.........yep


Actually there would be no conversation..............the wrappers would be all over the coffee table and I would be more p'eed off that a) he can't seem to use the bin and b) I need to find a new place to hide stash!!
( He has never found the emergency fruit and nut that is taped to one of the rafters in the loft with duck tape - I kid you not - it's been there about three years I think!)

Flybaby

and by fruit and nut - yes I do mean a large bar of cadbury's fruit and nut chocolate and not anything else!