Couch 67 - Keep calm, carry on, and have a cup of tea.

Nice to hear you're doing good! I've had quite an ok day today, thanks, but unfortunately my anxiety is really increasing at the moment.

Reading is great, isn't it? There are so many books I'd like to read! I actually just made a list of books I'd like to buy (and read of course). What book are you currently reading?

Sorry to hear your anxiety is increasing, do you have any 'techniques' that you can use to help you?

I am reading 'The Silent Girl' by Tess Gerritsen. It's a thriller and is part of a series.
It's easy reading, which is just what i need right now.

Ok, you liking the book so far?

No, unfortunately I don't have any techniques to help with the anxiety. I haven't really learned any yet. I'm sort of trying to distract myself by watching a movie and writing here but I can't really focus.

Yes i am enjoying it

I am going to sign off now and get the kids bathed and ready for school tomorrow. Chat later, hope you are feeling OK soon.

Okay, have a good night (not sure what time it is where you live)!

Well K is fed. Now we are watching a movie. 3.5 more hours to go. I think I will survive.

Need to finish T's coasters tonight, so I can wrap them up tomorrow to give to her on Tuesday at my appointment. Normally I wouldn't get T (or pdoc) an xmas gift because it just feels odd to me. But I enjoy making coasters and they are inexpensive yet practical. I feel more comfortable giving T a set than pdoc, so he isn't getting anything unless I get brave in the next week. Is it weird to give T or pdoc a holiday gift? Or is that unacceptable?

I don't think its weird to give them a gift. Some T's or Pdocs won't accept gifts but that is usually if they are expensive like a gift card. Most are okay with homemade gifts or with cards...

I'm basing my responses off of prior threads about giving gifts to Ts. You could search it here on PC communities

Thanks for replying Squirrel. You can see why I'm nervous to bring my DH in. Who knows what he'll ask and what my T will say. Two weeks ago I told him no way would my DH be coming in with me, but now I'm considering it because I need help explaining the situation to my DH. Just can't be sure if it is worth the risk. That's why I'm debating keeping it to a 20 minute minimum if he does. Keep it short and hopefully on topic. Plus, do it tomorrow and get it over with.

Thanks again. I hope you don't get too bored with K today.

So we were only supposed to have 1 inch of snow at the most so I didn't go grocery shopping yesterday so we have no toilet paper (thank goodness for the box of tissues), no milk, no bread...

So I think we are somewhere betweeen 3 and 5 inches so far ...I ended up making box of augratin potato and a box of stuffing mix with corn for lunch... luckily I have everything I need to make toll house cookies but its so hard to eat chocolate chip cookies without milk

Yeah. What happened to this being a mix? It's all snow, then rain overnight. It's gonna be messy tomorrow. Good thing I work 5 minutes away.

MKAC and Healed I see yous guys... what are you doing today? Healed...going to book club? MKAC... hope the pain isn't too bad?

We are thawing out and I managed to get to walmart, roads will be yucky tomorrow with a freeze again tonight but the end is in site! Hope everyone is having a good Sunday, MKAC hope the pain subsides... Hydrocodone makes w sick to she eats and then takes little pieces of the pill at a time til the pain subsides.

Well J just called and asked if I could stay till 5:30. I agreed, hopefully she won't call again and make it even later. K is sleeping...again.

I need to find something at home to eat for dinner tonight. I am out of milk, so mac and cheese is not an option. Hopefully I will find something quick and easy to make, but still a decent sized meal since I am supposed to take the new med with a meal...not just a few bites of food...pdoc said it had to be a meal in order to absorb correctly.

30 more minutes with K.

Getting ready to head out to book club- I wish I wasn't dreading it so much. Also, I feel guilty.. the only reason I have gotten out of bed really all weekend, was to help set up the Christmas tree, and go to church, and now book club. In the mean time, H has been in charge of everything. Making dinner, disciplining the kids, cleaning (which he is not good at).. my house is a wreck, haven't spent much time with the kids and now I am leaving. Although, I know, that by leaving and spending time talking about a book, it will help get my mind out of the not so great thought pattern that I am in right now.. and that will be such a release for me, as it feels like a constant battle within my mind to keep myself safe at this point. Sigh.. I need to do something about this.

I remember whenever winter bad weather was predicted, my mother would run out and buy two or three gallons of milk. And there were only two parents and two children. And none of us actually drank milk by itself or in coffee or tea. Running out of tea bags would have been a much bigger disaster.

The stores here are sparse on many things because delivery trucks can't get in... The beer and chip isles looked like they had been looted!

I feel really awful. Tried to eat 'real' food that was soft for lunch, and that left me feeling wretched all afternoon. H is making Cream of Wheat for me for dinner. This seems to have turn into a generalized illness because I never stopped feeling queasy after the pain killer and it's been more than a 24 hours since I took it. Running a fever and being a huge whiny baby inside my head. Sorry you asked, huh, CC and Jersey? lol

Sorry you are still feeling poorly MKAC... I had a tooth go bad and it turned into a bone infection and that caused a fever and a general feeling of being "sick".... maybe the antibiotic isn't strong enough... (bone infection shows on an xray and it caused my face to swell and my jaw not to open so much)... my regular dentist wrote me a prescription but when I went later in the day to the oral surgeon (this was for a tooth that already had a root canal and crown so not much more they could do) the oral surgeon wrote me a different prescription...said what the dentist wrote wouldn't even touch a bone infection....

Its so good you have an appt tomorrow and wont have to suffer much longer.

My H and older son... shoveled the driveway... and now my H is out at the grocery store getting what we need for atleast a few days. He's trying to get there and back between the heavy snow we had and the freezing rain that is on its way. I hope there is some food left on the shelves.

The weather is out of control right now, hope H gets plenty of stuff from the store. MKAC I am sorry youare feeling so bad toothache with fever and nausea sounds awful. I hope you are getting in with a Doc tomorrow. The fever could be infection related to the tooth or not. I just had leftovers from last night and am getting ready to either go to bed or play a video game or who knows..... I am ready for some human interaction that's for sure.

My face is swollen on that side and the jawbone hurts a lot. The pain is up in my cheekbone and extends up to above my ear and down into my neck. I wonder if it is in the bone. It just suddenly went from a little sore to misery.

OOOW! MKAC your tooth doesn't sound good at all. Hope you get to see a doc soon. (Here I was whingeing about having to drink a diff brand of milk from down south, tastes weird)

This sounds like an infected bone to me, I have had various root canals, as I was blessed with bad teeth among my other things. I cant remember did they actually do the drilling yet? If so it could be dry socket?? I remember that is a horrible horrible pain. You need to call one of the 2 dentist in the AM and maybe see a dr if they cant help. Minimally some phenegren for nausea or maybe a Morphin drip

I already had an 8 am appointment for tomorrow to get a permanent crown on a different tooth. BUT, that dentist doesn't have an answering service so I ended up talking to a different dentist to get the prescriptions. Now, he expects that I will come see him Monday to get this tooth fixed. I feel like I would be a horrible person if I don't use him, so I was going to have dentist A give me the crown and then go to dentist B to get this tooth fixed, but I desperately want this dang thing fixed at that 8 am appointment. I am usually good with pain and have had surgeries where I only used pain killers the day of the surgery and not after that. This however, is crazy pain.

It sounds like a bone infection... if it is that ...the good news is with a strong enough antibiotic the pain and swelling was gone in 24 hours...

I actually had to be on the antibiotics for 10 days before they would even work on that tooth...

perhaps you should postpone your other dental work that you have scheduled for tomorrow? It sounds like you would be in to much pain and too sick to sit there with your mouth open to have them work on your crown...