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 it recently (again). Found 2 weeks I needed to go slow, to restore physical energy but mostly BRAIN energy this time.
I am playing around with nutritious smoothies & homemmade soups + taking vitamin D.
Best wishes for your FULL recovery 🙏 ❤️
I was double vaccinated when we were in the thick of covid but didn't get the booster shots. The virus keeps mutating so there would be no end to getting shots.
But I have to say that the last four days have been pretty hellish. No breathing difficulty so I think I'm safe that way but I have all the other symptoms. Wondering now if I should just get all the booster shots.
I guess covid is here to stay.
Thanks for the support, ladies. Feeling better today so I will try again to make the trip. Dgd is off work till 4 so maybe we can yet have a visit. I have been checking out Uber as an alternative., It's cheaper than a taxi for sure.
Hope you feel better , sorry you missed the party .
Gershun ,
Feel better soon. My neighbors had it again recently too were pretty sick . Maybe because the newer strain , previous immunity isn’t a great match ???? Just a guess .
Golden, feel better!
My whine is that I can't make it to my dgds 21st birthday meal. I'm just not feeling up to the drive. and on top of that my guts are iffy so staying at home is safer. Not happy about this!!!
ana - I'm sorry your account was deleted. Maybe admin can restore it. I found I had to prioritize self protection. Otherwise it was too hard on me. It's no good getting bashed again and again. Can your hub or kids do the supplies? Or, as way suggested, have the staff get them from you in the parking lot.
I agree with Golden , you can drop things off with her name on them at the receptionist at the front desk lobby , the receptionist can have the staff bring them to her room . I did that with my Mom periodically as well .
For awhile though , I couldn’t drop off because my mother loved to sit by the front door to watch who came and left and she would ambush me , yell at me about how I was such a “ rotten daughter”. She got satisfaction of having an audience see her berate me . The small open lobby where she sat was at the corner of the big common living room full of other residents sitting . So I then started calling the front desk first before I went into the building to see if Mom was sitting at the lobby . My Mom sat across from the receptionist who answers the phone . If Mom was there , the receptionist would send a staff member to the parking lot to meet me at my car to get supplies .
One time the activities director was there when Mom berated me . The director turned to my mother and flat out told her . “ If I was your daughter I wouldn’t visit anymore .” My mother came right back with “ well you aren’t “ .
After that whenever I visited and the activity director walked passed us , my mother complained how she didn’t like that woman . 😝😜🤪
By the way, I am the same Ana(banana) as before. My entire account/history was deleted overnight.
Visited my mother. She was speaking very rudely to staff. My husband had opted to come along, so went in and calmed her. Distracted her. She responds better to men.
I came into her field of view (after replenishing her supplies) and he absentmindedly referred to me by name. And that’s when she ordered us out. He was shocked and asked if she meant for us to leave. She made herself clear - in no uncertain terms.
Silly me, still hoping she’ll stop being nasty to me. I get it - she’ll always direct all her anger and blame at me. She’d rather have no visitors (I have cousins who visit 2x year) than see me. My friends think I’m pleasant and fun. So he, I and my hurt feelings left.
Some people get only such short lives. It breaks hearts & is so unfair. I cannot imagine the family's pain.
So sorry ,
It’s terrible for a life to be cut so short. And of course you empathize with the parents losing a child and your daughter losing a friend .
Thanks. These things never get any easier, do they?
I will never get used to losing people that are so young.
I suppose that we aren’t supposed to dwell on the number of years that people have lived.
We should be grateful that they were in our lives for any length of time, no matter how brief.
There are times when I believe that we are all assigned a number. When that number is up, we die. If the number isn’t up, against all odds, we live.
I had a gun pointed directly at my heart. I begged for my life. I was only 18.
I was told by the man robbing me that he was going to kill me. It wasn’t my time to die.
Thanks, after the shock wore off, I cried over her death. I can’t seem to unwind this evening. Going to try and get some sleep soon though.
I have photos of her in my home with my daughter.
She was a sweet girl. Beautiful long blonde hair and blue eyes.
My girls have always been social butterflies. They always had their friends over.
I would like to express my sorrow to her parents. I don’t even know what I would say. I think I will send a card for now.
I know that nothing I say will ever help. No words are ever adequate in these situations.
I can’t help but feel, that if I ever lost either one of my daughters, I don’t know if I could ever cope with my grief.
It seems like the pain would be overwhelming and never go away.
Support for your loss, your daughter's loss, and the young woman's family's loss. It is very sad to lose someone you have known, and at such a young age.
You are going to need many hugs, here are some heartfelt hugs I am sending you! {{{{{{hugs}}}}}} 💝💔💝
My condolences.
Mind if I join you in needing support right now?
I am devastated at the moment. I just got off the phone with my youngest daughter.
One of my daughter’s friends called her to tell her that she just heard about a friend’s death. She didn’t know any details about how she died. My daughter was shocked.
Her friend was 28 years old.
I’m heartbroken. This child was at our house from elementary school to college. They remained friends after graduating.
Her friend was an only child. Her parents adored her.
I feel horribly for her parents. I can’t imagine the pain of losing a child.
I am sick over her death. I watched this kid grow up. I feel so bad for my daughter.
I know what it’s like to lose close friends both when I was young and recently.
I lost two good friends who committed suicide when I was young. It shook me up horribly.
I lost my best friend that I had known forever not long after my mom died. She was in her 60’s.
Sometimes. I still can’t believe that my friend is gone. I still want to pick up the phone and call her to come over for lunch. Or, go out to get a coffee, grab lunch, etc.
Hearing about other deaths always brings back memories for me. Grief is real and it’s very hard.
We expect older people to die. When people are younger, it throws us for a loop.
Thanks for listening.
I blocked the people who need to be blocked. But they have a very big network of flying monkeys.
I will find a way.
Does anyone have PoA? Do you have a plan for after money runs out entirely?
I am sorry this is so stressful for all of you.
Sending support your way today. Wishing you peace.
I am trying the cortisone cream that cw suggested. So, we’ll see.