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.
Thanks for letting me vent, thanks for the support. I don't remember being sick quite like this before, with acute symptoms present for months, in varying severity. I have a mild temp still and bad cough with fluid. Can't stop my sinuses from leaking no matter how much Afrin spray I squirt in them. Ok... it is what it is.
I'm feeling very stressed because I was thinking "why am I not up and at 'em?" I've slept during the day past 2 days, after waking up at normal time. Once the worst symptoms subsided -- the worst was constant bed rest and coughing up goobers constantly for about 10 days -- I thought I'd bounce back.
I sent a text to my employer. I don't think my job is in jeopardy. I think they understand I'm really sick. I've personally trained enough other people for my position at this point that they can fill in the gaps until I can come back. I feel uneasy about all of it, though.
Stopped in to see how everyone is doing, and answered a few questions. Couldn't help myself. LOL
How's everyone doing?
I second, Sue
it's been a tough winter for most of the country and you need to make sure you don’t have pneumonia
Take care
MsM
IMHO, it’s time to hit the doctor’s office for an exam and maybe some tests/meds.
Since you’re not better by now, you may need a bit of professional medical help.
Good luck and quick healing.
Then in early February I took a short trip to Vegas, just for fun and because it was cheap, and I met up with Seattle buddy for his bday. I was sick before that trip, in fact it was a struggle to make it, but I was determined to go. So I went. And I was sick -- bad sinus infection, bad tummy troubles. I chalked it up to a sinus bug and also the side effect of traveling, and came back to Chicago and went back to work. On February 14th (I remember because it was Valentine's Day), I started getting sooo woozy and I was coughing, so I went home. I have yet to work another full week of work and it's been a month.
The symptoms have been all over the place: I'm having gut/tummy disturbance but mostly I'm coughing, sniffling to end all coughs/sniffles. I obviously have a respiratory infection of some kind that is very bad. I lost my voice completely. I've taken boxes of cold meds over the past couple weeks. I'm still a snot factory and wheezing and coughing up liquid. I don't think it's pneumonia, but I'm not sure at this point. I keep thinking it will go away.
I'm scheduled to go back to work tomorrow. I NEED to go back to work. But I'm still sick. And as I'm fussing around, realizing how bad I still feel, I'm just MAD. I need to run errands before going back to work and I feel like poop!
I'm mad. I'm royally ticked off. Enough already. I feel like the fist quarter of 2019 has gone by and all I really remember about it is that I was sick the whole time.
I would've gone to doctor a long time ago except that would mean getting up and out and I've largely been in bed for three weeks... Plus, I think it's possible it's a viral chest bug, a viral out of bronchitis/laryngitis and I don't want to take antibiotics. In the past 3 weeks, I went to work here and there for one day, only to realize that I'm still very sick.
I just need to WHINE about it. I'm over it. It's the longest sick I can ever remember outside the never ending mold-house and mold illness.
Mentally, I'm not in a good place. I want to get my things done, I want to be up and better. I'm just not, though.
Hubs says:
People can login through a VPN (virtual private network) and an IP address can appear to be from anywhere in the world, traceable to a dead end. And, one person can appear to have a different IP address, with each name/account that one person is using.
An IP address can have many many e-mail addresses. He thinks that Aging Care does not check an IP address, only an e-mail address for each member. At one time my dH had an account on AC with his e-mail, and due to his diagnosis, I banned him. We have the same IP address, only one.
I agree that there is way too many posters now who come on the forum to instigate dissension, and some maybe even be arguing between themselves, but is in reality, one person.
I used to call them trolls, but was attacked for doing so.
So Ali, good you noticed....spending much time on here, it is hard not to notice that something is wrong.
Glad, does that make sense? Is it accurate?
Most people like Ali describes would post and never come back. So they were more readily identified. Imo.
Ali, I agree with the one and only one ISP. one account is enough. I know some use more than one and the extra accounts seem to be used for ugliness and saying things they wouldn't if they had their social filter on. And sometimes several times in one day. 😲
That is quite a dream...very common when you have been ill.
I enjoyed the "exchange it" theme, then, just refund it!
Wish all of us could have an opportunity to return something.....
Even my dreams are stressful and stressed out right now. :-( I'm just fussy. I don't feel well at all, still don't have my voice back at all, but I'm on the schedule to go back to work on Wednesday. This too shall pass.
The time has come to submit ALL the bills to Fil for reimbursement.
With this lapse in providing payment for the heat pump, (an inconvenience?)
one must realize you are being taken advantage of. If your hubs allows this, it is a red flag. Imo.
Sorry, I have come late to your situation.
I need to just rest and take it easy but I don't want to. There's so much to do. It will still be there in another day, though. :-/
"What would you do if you father was mean to your mother and she had dementia and he was in the hospital and you needed to get health coverage for them but you live miles away...?"
Please, don't get me wrong. I know some people come to this forum with desperate circumstances, and from every type of situation imaginable. I know that. I have compassion for that.
I just see a bunch of questions lately that are all so open ended, and all seem to be BAIT, honestly. Emotional bait. "What would you do if you were in this terrible situation that I'm going to lay out for you...?" "Have you ever experienced these terrible things that I'm going through...?"
Maybe it's just me, my mindset, or maybe I'm extra cranky from being sick for weeks at this point. I want to help people here, I really do. I don't want to engage in role playing out these ridiculously open ended questions. And no one is making me... of course. I've been noticing them for some time. I'm just really wish AC would restrict all unique IP addresses to one account each. That would really help me feel better about what I perceive as some people, at least in some part, asking emotional bait questions for the purpose of garnering attention.
I wish I never felt the need to write this comment. But I do.
... and 3 weeks ago I had to took the Yellow Fever shot - a sad reflection on this XXI century. We were supposed to be free from these
Oh well, rather go through the side effects then get the actual shingle rash. I kept telling myself that all weekend.
Hee! - my FIL was shocked that his then girlfriend, now DIL, met Son on Son's return from service overseas: "surely his mother should be there!" Hmmm. Your hot girlfriend or your dear old mum, which would you rather hugged you in front of all your friends?
Or, tell nephew "you want us to come or don't you? Because if you do, make it look like it."
This is aside, of course, from the issue of who paid for the education in the first place, hem-hem; but that they really do have to let pass.
Without all the flurrying drama and my hamster wheel efforts his true character
has become more apparent. Interesting to see how stressful it is to others
who don't have the additional burden of coping with painful past memories. I'm sad for all those who have parents who've refused to embrace their role as loving parents. I'm sad also for these same parents, as they have missed out on one of the greatest joys of life.
Today I took her out to lunch and shopping. Two hours after I took her back to her beautiful home with loads of activities she called asking me to come back and get her... I didn't.
Sounds like classic borderline personality disorder to me. Boundaries are not meant to change the other person, but to protect yourself. Boundaries without concrete consequences for when they are broken are useless. It sounds like you need to look for other options for his care or tell adult protective services that you can't handle this anymore and they will need to step in.