Oh, LucyD, me too. 2018 SUCKED! MIL's funeral was in early Jan. I swallowed a dental burr getting a crown in January, turned 40, got a perforated ulcer on Valentine's Day and all that entailed, my old pdoc is retiring and I had to start with a new one and beg her to get me in at that clinic after seeing a horrible pdoc. Financial worries. H didn't get the job he was promised at the university in the summer, didn't get it in the fall. Two car repairs. A giant AC repair. The dryer broke. The garbage disposal broke. The CPS investigation, the ride to the psych ER in a police car, the psych ER itself, the ED relapse (triggered by losing 10 lb. during my ulcer stay). Nothing but bad luck, never any good news until mid-December when H found out he got on at this university for January. Though he found out the day before the university closed for winter break and knows nothing about the new job. The new HOA "sweeps" person noticed our window unit AC in the garage (we've had it over 10 yr) and reported it as a violation. It is a violation, we know, but it hadn't bothered the stupid HOA for 10 years! H had a back and forth hassle with the HOA. Talk about a sucky year! Oh, and my bipolar is mixed and has been mixed since freaking March, I am so tired of mixed!

And to cap off the year, I got a strain of strep throat that was flu-like too and now I'm on an antibiotic giving me diarrhea. Great way to start the new year!