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

[tevagirl]

I can't sleep.
I figured I'd check in and see what is up...

teva-you have Kwim in your siggy now?

Has anyone heard from luv or Becky yet?

Yes.

Your first loves are hard to forget.

 

[L107ANGEL]

Good Morning Sunshines

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Morning!

Bomb, it's hard adjusting to the time changes. How is the weather?

red, good detective work. Hopefully luv will appear here. We're not "skerry". Strange, maybe, but only somewhat.

 

[makinorlando]

Good morning all.. new to this thread. Don't have pizza, but does coffee count! The pot is on!

The thread title intrigued me because I am having one of the mornings where EVERYTHING is annoying me, and that can only mean PMS!! At this point in my life, I'm not always sure when PMS is going to hit....

At least it's Friday,

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Hi Tigger&Belle!!!!

 

[Miss Jasmine]

Good Morning! Yeah it's Friday!!!!!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Hi mak! How are those kittens doing? You can stick around here even without PMS, as the guys can attest to.

I have PMS a good week a month and I'm an emotional basket case the rest of the time ( peri-menopause ). It's a wonderful roller coaster ride...

OH, and speaking of guys, some days I think my husband has major PMS.

 

[ChuckB]

morning ladies and gents

last min changes and I have had to hit the ground running this morning, now I am off for a trip to Hattiesburg and maybe a trip up to Laurel .... going to be a busy day

I hope yall have a wonderfull day

 

[Tricia1972]

Hi Mak! I am fairly new too, and everyone here has been wonderful! It's a good bunch, very friendly.

 

[Shugardrawers]

Well if PMS were required to be part of the in crowd here I'd really be out. I haven't been in possesion of female parts in 14 years! Although Dh would swear I still have it 28 days out of the month

 

[phorsenuf]

Morning all!

I'm trying to be a good girl here and clean my house. I have 10 days until my FDIL arrives so if I do 1 room a day I can have a nice clean house before she gets here. Sounds good..........LOL

 

[imsorry]

Good Morning!!!!

 

[L107ANGEL]

Good morning all.. new to this thread. Don't have pizza, but does coffee count! The pot is on!

The thread title intrigued me because I am having one of the mornings where EVERYTHING is annoying me, and that can only mean PMS!! At this point in my life, I'm not always sure when PMS is going to hit....

At least it's Friday,

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Hi Tigger&Belle!!!!

aboard Mak! Make yourself right at home!

 

[makinorlando]

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone!

I just hate these kinds of days where everything just gets on my LAST nerve. Things have settled a bit now, and I've had a productive (so far) morning of work!

I have so much house work to do this weekend! I need to my mother to come back for another visit. She keeps things in order around here. The bad side of working at home, and being busy with work - is that I see the things that need to be done around here all day long!

Tonight I must not DIS and I must clean! Tara and I will be off to Grand Floridian in the morning for breakfast with Alice & the Mad Hatter, and I suppose some time in Magic Kingdom or EPCOT.

Currently waiting to hear if the Space Shuttle is going to launch. I can see it from my front yard and would like to see it and hopefully snap a picture of the smoke train!

Okay - back to work!

Hi mak! How are those kittens doing? You can stick around here even without PMS, as the guys can attest to.

I have PMS a good week a month and I'm an emotional basket case the rest of the time ( peri-menopause ). It's a wonderful roller coaster ride...

OH, and speaking of guys, some days I think my husband has major PMS.

The "boys" are doing good. They are HUGE. Both at 5 months are bigger than the mom! They are very mischevious and rambuctious though, but on the other side - they are also very sweet and cuddly too!

 

[Miss Jasmine]

Mak, I am waiting on the shuttle news/launch as well. I have the NASA-TV streaming here. I can watch from my office window!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Mak, I would like to say that if we see you DISing tonight we'll tell you to go clean your house, but the reality is that we'll join in and distract you even more. Right 4's? She was supposed to be eBaying the other day and we were supposed to be keeping her on track. Not only did we not do that, but we allowed her to start a thread and then joined in. We're not good at helping people control their addictions.

Funny that your kittens are so big. Their daddy must have been a big tom cat! Our kittens (now cats, really) are teeny. I've always liked large cats and I really broke that rule with these little peanuts. But they are sweet, even my signature kitty who is into so much trouble. Not lap cats, though. Only one of my 4 is a lap cat. One of my dogs thinks that she's a lap dog, though (at 60 pounds).

 

[luvmydogs]

Well, good morning everyone, and long time no see!

I haven't been DISing much lately and it's taken me a while to read through all your posts, but it sounds as though everyone's doing well. Briarmom, I am thinking of you and want to know all about Egyptian men! In all seriousness, I hope that you and your babies are well and happy and are enjoying this time with your dh.

I guess I may as well post the reson why I haven't been here and elsewhere (hi all you LL's!) in a while. Teva and T&B already know this, so I hope I'm not boring them with all the details again, but my ds Chris, who turned 11 not two weeks ago, was recently diagnosed with bulimia and is now seeing a psychiatrist who specializes in eating disorders. He is also being monitored for mild depression, although the Dr. seems to think it's directly related to the bulimia and not some other source. Once I confronted Chris with some of the things I had been noticing about his behaviors, he broke down and told me that he had been throwing up both at home and at school since last spring, but then hording and hiding food in his room so that he could binge while no one was looking. All this was going on right under our noses for months, and we never suspected anything. He did lose a little weight over the summer and looked thinner, although I attributed that to him growing three inches in six months and doing a lot of swimming. He sobbed to me about how being thinner will make him a better athlete and how he wants to be skinny like some of his friends. Now this is a boy who's not overweight at all. He's not super-thin, but he's in the normal range for his height and has a lot of muscle from playing sports. I talked to him to try to understand where he's coming from, and he did say he didn't like what he was doing, felt ashamed and wanted to stop. I called his pediatrician the next morning with everything I knew, and by that afternoon she had gotten us scheduled with the psychiatrist. Our ped. (who is just awesome!) said he is the best in his field, and that if any of her children were going through the same thing, it's whom she'd want as their Dr.

Chris sees his Dr. once a week and always looks forward to the sessions, which we all see as a good thing. He's really open to talking about things with both us and the Dr., which I understand to be a very positive step. Eating disorders "flourish in secrecy," is what the psychiatrist said, and Chris being so willing to openly discuss his issues is a good sign that his treatment will be successful (although it is like alcoholism in a sense--he will probably have to be watchful of the signs and symptoms and manage it for the rest of his life). Right now, he has to keep a very intricate food diary--how much he eats, when, with whom, how much actual hunger he feels, his sense of happiness/guilt when he eats, etc..., and his weekly therapy sessions. We are also have to monitor him closely at home and had to make his teacher aware, too. He has to leave school early every Tuesday for his appt., and the school cannot be more cooperative and understanding than they already have been! His sessions for the most part are private, although we will have a family session from time to time. You know what's hard? Having a stranger look at your family dynamics and parenting skills and tell you how you're contributing to your child's issues. Not that he's wrong about the observations he's made, and I certainly am grateful for the way he's guiding us to help Chris into recovery and wellness, but OUCH!!! Hearing that stuff out loud feels like a kick in the teeth!

So, that's where we are now. Things are moving in a positive direction with Chris, although I've been feeling kind of grumpy and reclusive and a bigtime loser as a mom. But we all have a good sense of hope that Chris will come out of this healthier and stronger in the end. Here's a word to the wise--eating disorders affect boys, too. I never in my wildest dreams thought my golden child--popular, straight-A student, 3-sport athlete--would ever have an eating disorder, distorted body image or self-esteem issues. I was blown away and feel really humbled by the whole thing. But it does happen, and I urge you to take any signs of bulimia, anorexia, etc., seriously in your sons and daughters. The potential health effects can be serious and in some cases can be life-threatening. We were so fortunate to have caught this early, as the younger the child is, the greater result they seem to get from treatment. But many children/teens can hide eating disorders for *years* before the symptoms are recognized or admitted to. We are very, very lucky and grateful that Chris's pediatrician took what I had to say over the phone so seriously and got us all help as soon as she could. That will play such a big role in effective treatment.

Anyway, if you're still with me (and I apologize for the length of this post!), I'm sorry for not being around so much. I just wasn't really feeling ready to tell people about this yet, and I knew some of my negativity would be factoring into my postings. I've been a major grump lately and not too nice to be around.

I do hope you're all well and happy! If any of you happen to run into any one else on other boards I belong to, please pass along my greetings until I get back into the swing of things. I'll check in with all you guys from time to time--I promise!

 

[imsorry]

Luv!!!

 

[Miss Jasmine]

Luv, honey, I am a recovering bulimic. It is something I will struggle with every day of my life. This has been nearly 10 years ago and I still have some days that I contemplate going back to some bad habits. If you need ANYTHING, please let me know. It is something I stuggled with and dealt with pretty much myself (I was college-age at the time). I had some counseling, I met with nutritionists, etc. I will be keeping my buddy Chris in my prayers. I am so sorry you are having to deal with this, but it sounds like Chris is facing this quite bravely. He will win!

Launch scrubbed for today, delayed 24 hours. Bummer.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

luv, I'm so glad that you felt up to posting here! I know that took a lot, but I think that it's a good thing. We all care about you and none of us would ever dream about passing judgement on you. I've always thought of bulimia as a girl's issue. It will make me much more careful about what I say to my boys. Not that I say a whole lot, but I've never been as careful about making comments to my boys. Ie, we've always teased Zach about eating poorly, which he does, even though he's really been trying to improve this year and we've told him he has a "big butt". The big butt comment sounds so mean, looking back (and it had to do more with him playing baseball, being up to bat and sticking his butt out, so not really a weight thing). I guess we never really gave it much thought, but it's nothing I would have ever said to Alyssa. That's as far as I've ever gone with Zach and we've tried to emphasize healthy eating, which is finally starting to sink in a little. But it's something we should be aware of.

Mak and Jasmine, I just heard that the shuttle launch was called off. ETA, I see you just posted, Jas.

 

[Bbgrizzle]

Hi! I came home sick from work. This is the 3rd day in a row I have thrown up at work (today it was 4 times), so I left. I stopped at the store on the way home and got a pregnancy test. Negative. So I guess I have a virus or something. At least I can have the rest of the day off! After I pick up Ainslee from Kindergarten I'm going to take a nap.

How are you guys?

Welcome, Mak!