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 don't have panic attacks anymore but did when I was younger. The caffeine connection makes sense but try getting most people to give up their coffee...said as I go to the kitchen for more.....I have cut down to half a pot in the morning....
You know, I get headaches daily for weeks, months. I wake up at 4 or 5 am with a pounding headache. So, every morning, a coffee and then Excedrin to help me to think in the mornings. By lunch time, the pounding headache is back. Instead of taking Excedrin several times a day for weeks/months, I'm back to sipping that one can of Pepsi (it has caffeine) throughout the afternoon. The pounding headache hits, sip, and the pain goes down. Sometimes, depending how bad the headache is, by the time I leave work, I either have a still full Pepsi or an empty one or a half full one. But it works as a substitute from the Excedrin. FYI....
I have always wanted to say that.
Yep about the rebound from daily use (several times a day) with the painkiller!! That's why I now sparingly use it. But I refuse to take leave from work just to go home and be miserable. I might as well be miserable at work and get paid for it.
Got a quote on fixing one of the windows at mom's house. Sister and the guy she had living with her busted it out and tore up the fence the week before last after we moved some of mom's things to her new place. See my previous posts for all of the drama we've had with this saga, that sis keeps escalating...
Anyway, the window company was supposed to call and let me know what time they were coming, they said it would be sometime between 10 and noon. I hadn't heard from them so I called, and they had already been out there and measured, and will call back with a quote, but since window glass has to be custom ordered, and them being backed up, it will be about 21 business days before they can get back out to replace it. Is this normal?
I guess in the meantime hubby and I will put some thick plastic over it to keep rain, bugs, etc out. Was just hoping to get it fixed soon, as it's already been almost 2 weeks.
I would drop kick that So Called friendship as fast as I could throw it! Just remember, you've got Loads of Friends here, that truly Love and Appreciate You, so Never Forget That!
And Katie....That had to really hurt your feelings and I'm so sorry that happened to you too.
My old friend from highschool hurt my feelings too a few weeks ago,when she came by and judged nd criticized me for not moving on better without my Mom.
Maybe we all should make some new friends~.
We don't want to see you as one of the 40% of family caregivers who passes away leaving behind your love one.
Why are the admins changing the order of the posts?
My comment was to Katie about friends. If my post comes before her comment about her friend, how does that make sense? Am I confused?
I can relate, the bragging vacation photos friend, and comments like: "I don't know why you need to eat that much butter" while dining out, our last ever lunch together. She actually had a weight problem, wants to convert everyone to be like her.
I must be delirious from the heatwave here in California.
The recent changes are just too annoying and troublesome to deal with, and now the admins have reinstated previously deleted posts by a certain member that are just outright mean and hateful towards other members.
Someone posts nasty, hate-filled posts to create drama - the admins either gut the post or delete it - only to reinstate it a day or so later?? Whether it's a glitch or intentional, it's just getting to be too much hassle to deal with. We as members are expected to help "police" the site by reporting inappropriate or offensive content - but our efforts are completely negated by whatever is going on behind the scenes on the site.
I appreciate everyone here, and have the utmost respect for you and the difficult caregiving job you're doing or have done in the past. I'm right there with you and I know what you're going through or have been through. Please keep a positive thought in mind for yourself today, find some joy in the little things in life, and remember that your caregiving journey will not last forever - there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Take care. :-)
The carbonated beverages are said to remove calcium from your bones.
That's what I had read, and gave up sodas.
Susan... hate to see you go, but if you do my wish for you is that you have a happy life filled with lots of love, joy and happiness. Please check in with us and let us know how you are doing.
Sendhelp...We drink very little diet sodas. When I do drink diet soda I drink Diet 7-up as it is caffeine free, but I drink more water and coffee than anything. I did not realize that diet drinks would leach out the calcium in your bones. Thank you for the info. I do not need that to happen. The Dilantin that I was on drained the calcium from my body when I had to take it at age 29 and 31 due to a seizure disorder. I lost all of my teeth due to it.
I am sorry to hear someone is being mean on here...I haven't seen the posts, but meaness is one thing we all don't need with all we are going through or went through or both! I hope everyone is hanging in there today. Day at a time and don't forget to appreciate the little stuff.