PMS in a Handbasket--Don't be afraid, just bring us food... Part 2a

[snowwhitesmom]

Ok, how do you know when you need to see a counselor and maybe get on an antidepressant and when it's just a passing case of the blues?

Are you eating and sleeping okay, Shug?

My MIL is doing ok, thanks for asking T&A.

Briarmom - I'm with you! Go Ty!

 

[Briarmom]

Here is a quiz I found shug.

http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/quiz/scaletally.pl?presname=health/depression

There are several I am sure.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Froggy, you're ok, mainly because I don't have to live with you! You must be so excited for your trip! I'm excited for all of you.

Snowy, glad your MIL in doing ok.

Briar, I agree about Ty...

Shug, I don't know. Snow asks some good questions. Are you functioning ok in other areas--eating, getting out of the house and doing errands, etc? How much of this do you think has to do with your shoulder (both the stress of the surgery and more than anything, still not feeling yourself after it)? You've had a lot to deal with and it's normal for you to be having a hard time, but it wouldn't hurt to talk to someone to determine if it's something that medication would help. But I'm not a counselor, nor do I play one on the DIS.

 

[Shugardrawers]

Thanks B-mom. The results didn't suprise me. I've been putting off making an appt with someone. Maybe it's time. It's been a rough few weeks. And Snow, I've lost 8 pounds in the past couple of weeks and I don't sleep without taking something. I knew that was a bad sign already. It's not suprising I'm depressed considering the past year of my life. You'd think being in remission would improve things but I guess not. Maybe I'll call someone tomorrow.

 

[Briarmom]

Thanks B-mom. The results didn't suprise me. I've been putting off making an appt with someone. Maybe it's time. It's been a rough few weeks. And Snow, I've lost 8 pounds in the past couple of weeks and I don't sleep without taking something. I knew that was a bad sign already. It's not suprising I'm depressed considering the past year of my life. You'd think being in remission would improve things but I guess not. Maybe I'll call someone tomorrow.

Take care of YOU Shug.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Shug, loosing 8 pounds in 2 weeks is not a good thing. Maybe the reality of everything you've been through is now hitting you. Sometimes that happens when you are through or almost through the crisis. You can't fall apart when you are in the middle of the crisis, afterall, right? Please call tomorrow!

 

[snowwhitesmom]

Shug, call your Doc tomorrow and ask the nurse to call you back and be honest with her on the phone, okay? They should have you come in tomorrow. You sound like me right after I lost my Dad - and my doc was a big help.

 

[FroggyinArk]

please go ahead and call shug, we dont want ya falling apart on us now.

 

[snowwhitesmom]

yeah, what Froggy said..............

 

[redshoes]

Good Evening all!

 

[bigmerle1966]

Hello all! Had a pretty good weekend. Went to DC with my Dsis, Aunt and cousin yesterday, it was pretty nice. Got to see some of the things I've seen only in passing. We took the Tourmobile and went to the Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam Memorial and the WW2 Memorial. Lincoln needs a good cleaning, the VM was smaller than I thought it was and WW2 is beautiful. Once I get the pics uploaded I'll post some.

We had this really great tour guide for part of the trip, she was so funny and patriotic, she almost made me cry at one point. Her name was Jennifer and she had just moved to DC and had been with the tourmobile for only a few months when 9/11 happened. She said that when things started back to
"normal" on the following Monday they hardly had any people on the bus. Only 2 to 3 at a time and was really worried about her job because DC is very dependant on tourism. There is a monument in DC to the son of one of the presidents, I can't remember which one, but it has bells at the top that are supposed to toll at certain intervals and in all of the months she had been doing the tours she had never heard them until that day. The bells played "America". She had this little stuffed lion that played the song and she stood up and sang the song.

She told us all about how couples come to the Capitol building to have pics taken in their wedding finery. Then told us about her plans for her next wedding, if she ever had one again, and how she would get enough pics taken with just her so if it failed like her first one she wouldn't have to destroy so many of them, because it's not easy to cut or Photoshop someone out of the pics. As we were nearing our next stop she was telling us about how many people visit the Natural History museum and why, because she loaned them her jewelry, the Hope Diamond.

 

[bigmerle1966]

Have to tell you a funny one that my DN, 2yo, did. She had on my sisters Crocs and grabbed the straps and was pulling on them. She told my sister that she couldn't pick herself up.

Junk drawers- I have an entire downstairs, my room and the family room. I don't spend much time down here and when I do I just never get anything done. I have gotten some of my clothes gone through and bagged to go to Amvets lately. There is just so much to get sorted through and put away, given away, thrown away. I really have to get it done though, I need to get new carpet down here and I won't be able to until it's really cleaned up down here.

Oh and I don't know how to count, I will be in the World in a little less than 3 weeks.

 

[LiteBrite]

Hey girls and guys,

I've only read a couple of pages, but Shug, I'll be praying for you. Please take care of yourself.

I'm in Budapest. We've been here since Friday, staying at hubby's brother's place. Yesterday was St. Stephen's Day, the Hungarian equivalent of the 4th of July. We were a group of 7 - me, hubby, DD18, bro-in-law, his Hungarian girlfriend, her 12yo DD with 14yo friend. We had taken various trams, buses, and our feet to get to the other side of the Danube to meet BIL's friends to watch the big fireworks show from the riverfront. Roughly 1 million other people had done the same. As the fireworks started, we watched a storm blowing in - the heavy rain obscuring the scenery around us as it approached. We were right across the river from a big castle, and as soon as hubby said, "Hey, cool, look at the castle - you can barely see it", a huge wall of water and hail hit us right in the face along with very strong winds. The crowd started turning into a mob. People were screaming and trying to find somewhere to go.

We were near the Marriott, where BIL's friends had rented a room, so we turned and tried to make our way there. Thousands of people were pushing, the rain and hail were slamming us. We had to climb carefully over a fence, one at a time, trying desperately not to be seperated in the crowd. My glasses were useless, being so covered with rain drops, and I'm way nearsighted without them, so I was pretty much blind. We finally all made it over the fence, and got through the crowd in a huddled mass, all hanging onto one another tightly. We made it into the lobby of the Marriott with lots and lots of others.

We were all in summer clothes - tank tops and jeans, soaked and dripping. The staff of the Marriott were handing out towels and sheets to the very wet and miserable crowd. Finally we found BIL's friend, who took us up to his room for a while, but we finally had to find a way to get home again. We tried calling for a taxi, but that was of course hopeless, so we took our still soaked selves back out into the now windy and cool night to find our way home via whatever trams and buses were still running.

Lots of public transport was down, as were most of the traffic lights in the city, but we found some options. After 2 subway rides and one bus, we got close enough to walk the last 15 minutes home. We were so happy and grateful to be there. The city looked as if it had been through a tropical storm, and although I don't know how strong the winds were, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they had been tropical storm force.

So, now we have a really great story to tell, and I'm sure there will be many tellings of it at family gatherings to come.

Here's a link to a news story about what happened:
http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L20178857

We'll be here in Budapest until Thursday, when DD flies back to the states to start the semester at college, and hubby and I go on to Ireland to do some work there for 2 weeks and 3 weekends.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

OMG, LiteBrite, what a story! Yes, you'll be telling about that adventure forever.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

Just popping in real quxck to give this to Shug: Please call the doctor. You need to take care of you. We all care about you!!!!

 

[Briarmom]

Wow Lite! What an adventure. Thanks for checking in!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Yes, Shug, call your dr!

I went to the dr this morning. Of course I'm feeling better now, but kept the appt. Figured some bloodwork wouldn't hurt anything, especially if I start feeling bad again. I still don't have a lot of energy.

Other than that, I just need to do some cleaning up around here. We've decided to get our study painted when we get Alyssa's bedroom painted, so it means going though old books, etc that have been sitting there on a bookshelf gathering dust, so I'm going to spend a little time doing that today. I figure if I work on that 15 minutes a day I can make a difference.

I also need to order a bed for Alyssa's room (AKA the guest room). I'd decided to buy a full size trundle bed (we have a trundle that goes with the Cargo furniture that is in the boys rooms), but now I am second guessing that decision and wondering if the room is big enough for a queen bed. It doesn't look big enough, but that's because she has so much extra stuff in that room. It would be nice to have a queen bed for when guests do use the room, even though Alyssa is still calling it her room (but she is going to be on her own sometime and I need to keep that in mind). I HATE decisions like this.

 

[Stitchfans]

Hey T&B: hope DH is behaving himself better today. who knows why they decide to act up. just like kids, I guess.

Shug: whats up with you? did you call your dr?

hope everyone else is doing fine.

As far as I said about DDs fi. I'll get over it. Will just have to get used to not having her around on the day of holidays and birthdays and so on.

Thing that puzzles me is she agrees and sees all that is wrong with him but yet refuses to get rid of him. says he will change in time. foolish girl. sure makes it difficult though when you despise your child's mate.

 

[Briarmom]

Thing that puzzles me is she agrees and sees all that is wrong with him but yet refuses to get rid of him. says he will change in time. foolish girl. sure makes it difficult though when you despise your child's mate.

Is there a long engagement planned? Maybe she will figure it out. I hope.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Thing that puzzles me is she agrees and sees all that is wrong with him but yet refuses to get rid of him. says he will change in time. foolish girl. sure makes it difficult though when you despise your child's mate.

Has she read Dr Laura's book? I forgot the exact name, but the one about what women do wrong. I bought it for my DD a year or so ago for her to read. Something for young women to think about when dating. There is no changing a guy! And they don't get better with age--and whoever said that a person does not marry their in-laws was dead wrong. My DH has so turned into a combination of his parents (mainly his mad, especially the way that his dad talks to his mother) that it's not even funny. And no, he did not used to be this way before we were married.