I am sick , angry and tired

"If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself -- you can't help but learn!" ---b. siegel

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity" ---Einstein

Treat yourself, woman.......... DAYZEE9

hey dayzee, I rock huh? Thanks. Today I told the girlfriend to call for an appointment with a pdoc and I just asked her and she said she couldn't cause my son had her calling card. It had better happen tomorrow. I am hanging in there. So far a quiet evening. Take care.

Wisewoman,

It seems like you are describing my life at the end of last year & into this year. Even though my life didn't include taking care of my house or my daughter (who is now out of my house). I had so many responsibilities that only I could take care of & they had to be done daily.....bouncing between the ranch & an hour drive to be with my Mother who was dying of cancer. I am sure you remember some of the trauma I went through with the home care RN & had to be with my Mother 24/7 for the last month she was alive. I lasted until 2 weeks before she died & the exhaustion hit me. I became so sick I couldn't function anymore. I thought it was the flu....nausea, high temperatures, dizzy to the point I would actually pass out.....but I still needed to be with my Mother. It finally got so bad from having to push myself that I did end up in the hospital.....with IV nutrition. I guess for me, the good part of being in the hospital when my mother died was that I had continual care & only had to focus on the details of the funeral arraingements & contacting family & friends.

Sometimes we push ourselves to the point where we can't function anymore......that is a very dangerous place to be.....even a simple being sick can get complicated because our immune system is non existant when we end up in that place. Even 9 months later....I am still not recovered well enough to not be sick all the time.

Please take care of yourself so that you don't land in the condition of complete exhaustion.....it doesn't take much after the emotional things you have gone through over the last few months let alone what you are experiencing now.

I know you already know these things.....I realized when people told me this....it wasn't something I hadn't told others before it was told to me.

We care,
Debbie

>>Today I told the girlfriend to call for an appointment with a pdoc and I just asked her and she said she couldn't cause my son had her calling card.

Good for you! Don't let them glide by on excuses though...