I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
I had a "thing" come over me just about 2 years ago. Out of the blue, I became extremely anxious, unable to calm down, unable to get to sleep and stay asleep, had crying jags, got upset at the drop of a hat and I lost 2 quarter sized (circular) patches of hair on the left side of my head. Luckily the top hair covers it. It has never grown back.
I went to a therapist, who sent me to a psychiatrist, who prescribed "zombie" pills (no thanks), so I told myself, " Nurse, heal thyself."
I went to my regular doctor, who ordered cream for the hair problem, then a referral to a dermatologist. She shot something into the bald spots. It hurt (stinging) so bad I was crying (I can take a lot of pain.) She was completely confused by that. "It should not be that painful", she said.
I was to make another appointment with her but never did. I went home and read the bottle of cream medicine ordered by the PCP. He ordered it to be applied every day but, when I looked it up, I should only have been using it twice a week!!
No wonder the shots hurt-the area was super -sensitized by the cream.
I've never tried anything else. Guess I've learned to live with it.
My hairdresser says she sees a LOT of this happening from stressed out women.
I never noticed the hair in my brush or comb....one day it was just gone. The skin at those areas is a different texture, almost sticky (without drainage) since this skin has been protected by hair all its life.
The crazy anxiety period lasted about 3 months then went away as mysteriously as it came.
Maybe alien invasion 👽 !
Haha. Hubby is sure glad "it's" gone.
Doc also prescribed Ativan (Lorizapam 1 mg.) 1hour before bed now on the nights before I work the next day, so I can get to sleep and stay that way until the dredded alarm goes off. ⏰
Good luck. I hope it's nothing serious.
Katie, that very same cyst was getting re-tested everytime, until the docs referred me to a surgeon and I said "No". Now, the results almost look like an apology, "Upon further evaluation, there is no change, no reason for re-testing".
Becky, If this keeps up I may need to try a hair product, hoping it works even if the stress doesn't let up.
Dorianne, Soon, I will be finding a new doctor.
My diet is good, as in well-balanced. But, maybe I should try going back to eating more chocolate, since that has been a recent change in trying to eat better. Heh heh, diagnosis is........lack of sufficient c h o c o l a t e in diet.!!! ????
When I get older, if needing a pureed diet, sure hope there will be chocolate puree!
Especially, if I am bald by then, there must be chocolate.
I hope to have caregivers like MsMadge or Luckylu who will sneak some in to me.
We all would be so lucky!
That bench now sits in front of my bay window and is the perfect height to allow the cats to jump up onto the bench then into the window :)
I also bought antiques over the years. I call it "early attic style" and just love how these items look, if only the furniture could talk to tell me about their previous owners. I would find an item but had to go home to think about it, then go back couple weeks later to the antique store to look at it again. If I had that gut feeling this is the item I really wanted, then I would purchase. Gosh, I can't recall the last time I bought brand new furniture.
My neighbors get new furniture delivered by a fancy truck, my furniture comes in the back of my Jeep or a pickup truck :) I just enjoy the hunt. I use to go to auctions to look for the deal of the century but would come home empty handed.
I believe one piece of furniture is haunted. Had 2 older female cats that would cry big time going down the hallway past the 1800's library table. My most recent adopted older cat, she runs full speed past that table :P My older male cat ignores it.
Maybe the NH gets paid for every headcount at the table daily.
Dignity, once again, assaulted.
The water was shut off today, without notice. The city might have been working in the area. Hubs knows, but he doesn't say anything to me. So, I am stuck, without a plan.
He kindly, but secretly, puts a gallon of tap water (we had stored) next to the toilet.
(for flushing).
What is this gallon of water doing here?
He explains, but too late.
It barely made any difference, so when he went outside, I am pouring bottled water down the toilet, all two gallons of it, until it flushes, finally.
But wait, how do I wash my hands?
He would be critical knowing I wasted "bottled water", just once, for sanitation reasons.
Stressor over.
Congratulations Barb!
You now have the opportunity for a personal relationship with SS, where they will now try their best to limit your benefits, seize your benefits, deny your benefits, cut back your benefits, penalize your benefits, and stop your benefits altogether! imo.
Respond to all that correspondence you will be receiving within 10 days, or you will lose your benefits.
Keep in mind, that they are just trying to help you, whenever you receive one of their threatening letters. imo. You MUST tell them first, from now on, if you move, change banks, change marital status, and just about e v e r y t h i n g else, including traveling outside the U.S. for a certain period of time.
imo.
I had to remind myself the other day to enjoy the here and now instead of always looking toward retirement day (3 years, 9 months away).
I'm tired of commuting, tired of getting up at 5 am, and just plain tired.
Maybe I'll feel more renewed after our vacation in May.
Well, I just checked on my post, and it was all crunched together making it hard to read :P
Wonder if that was a software hiccup, or maybe we need to triple space now. No wonder there are so many run on new postings. For me, it makes it hard to read, I tend to lose my place.... [sigh].
It was on when I checked, but there was no carafe placed.
His behavior has changed, symptoms are getting worse.
Do we just wait and see?
Take him to the beach?
Wondering now, what kind of doctor does he need to see?
Or?
He has been fed, and is sleeping now. I ate too, a very good meal.
Tender round steak, baked potato, salad.
He will continue his routine, working on power-point tonight, church tomorrow, sleeping from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
I am standing by. Thank you for asking, MsMadge!
How are things with you? Chocolate, strawberry, or vanilla?
I hope everyone's day goes better, and hope for much strength for all caregivers!
Beyond not good.
These types don’t exactly respect restraint orders do they?
Can you fight her release?
If she's going to be released from the psych hold, shouldn't the prosecution for assault be reinstated?
Becky, I hope you can somehow get a restraining order on this woman. I wonder if she even remembers what she did? I am hoping for the best.
Her mother and some other family members and a bank trust department officer are in the process of cutting her out of family trust. There is a clause in the trust that say she can be cut out for diminished mental capacity or criminal behavior. The prosecutor says that not having any money to support herself will also be a negative mark for her. PJ says in the Mom's voicemail she sounded terrified that she might get out. Her mother, sister and other family are scared of her.
I can go to the hearing, but I don't think I am going to. I never want to see her again.
Be relieved for it to be over tomorrow.