Weekend Check in Thread: Dec 20 How are you?
 

Hi,

I hope that you had a good weekend and are looking forward to the week.
It's chilly-ish here with 68F for Sunday afternoon.

I was home on Saturday trying to calm myself down about sleep.
I have depression for a few hours and then I calm myself back to not depressed. Maybe I will sleep soon and then work on trying to organize some stuff.

What are you up to? :)

Mari

going and going and going and going and....
 

right now, i finally am getting to sit down now after cooking all morning and washing up all afternoon. i am not slow at it - not at all - just used a lot of stuff! Dad is seeming appreciative of the results though, which makes me happy. And mom too... relatively... in her bossy shoulda coulda way which confirms her improved wellbeing! Dad and i chuckled about how she's already tying to direct traffic bigtime. :D

we will probably call the doc about the antibiotic because her fever has improved markedly but not so much the respiratory sx... i will spare you the finer details in that regard. ;) TMI.

Hockey, Donna... how do you take care of a family AND FIND THE TIME to shower????????????????? :o:eek:

~ waves ~

Dear Mari
 

actually, oddly, i am.

cool! literally. heheh. here it is has been a little chillier... in the teens... :eek::D

Well, actually, it is very positive that you are able to calm yourself out of being depressed even for just a while at a time. I am glad you have those moments of relief. Good job. :)

sounds good. nighty nap! :D and good luck with the organizational stuff. :) :hug:

~ waves ~

confusion reigns
 

Waves,
I'm doing something weird -- dunno what it is.

I'm not asleep yet.

I started to go to bed several times. Finally I started reading a book and that got me stimulated.
I am half considering staying up all day until night to get back on track for a more reasonable sleep time.

But moving times means that one has a time to move.
Right now I sleep as long as it is not anywhere a time that used to be near my sleep time.

And I can't stay up more than I am already in order to set my clock because I am deprived.

Sleep doc is tomorrow. I wonder if I will be an more exhausted than when I saw her on Friday.

M.

I am doing pretty well. Gonna be 41 in a few days, and Monday I have a lot to do, but Tuesday I just have to get the leg. CANNOT wait!!! Wednesday we gotta go to gainesville for a dental cleaning for the kiddo, should be good. I just hope that he lets them do what they have to do when we go, he's been fiesty lately probably because of the holidays.

I hope that my prosthetist can adjust the socket so it's not so painful to walk. When I went in last Wednesday it hurt like heck to put weight on it right on my pelvis, and he is pretty sure he can take it down some more and we won't lose vacuum, so time will tell. If he is successful is manipulating it to be better for me painwise I will probably go right to walking with a cane, otherwise it's gonna be crutches. And I don't want that. I want to use a cane for awhile and then be done with it quickly. But then I want it all QUICKLY-it's so hard to be patient.

But that's where I am at right now. :D

Dear Mari,

I really hope the hypnosis session tomorrow helps. Perhaps after you will be more relaxed and more able to sleep or nap.

Changing a sleep schedule is incredibly hard. And being deprived and depressed is even harder. It is a bit of a catch 22. One technique often proposed is that of moving your waking clock forward by 15 mins until you "flip over" gradually. but that would entail sleeping all day at some point. I love how these people who come up with these "techniques" don't consider the fact that someone has to show up to things like WORK while they are "fixing their schedule" ... as if we could go off on some other astral plane and fix our schedule while our bodies just stayed here and ... ? and what? :D:rolleyes:

IMHO, the most important thing, considering your overall health and mood right now, is for you to get sleep, in naps, long, short, whatever, whenever you can get it, i.e. when you have both inclination and opportunity. I'm sorry that reading was too stimulating, go figure. that happens to me though sometimes - with me, it depends on what i read.

Ummm... are you also seeing your sleep doc tomorrow? Am i missing something, or was that just a typo - i realize you were referring to your tdoc in regard to the friday appointment.

:hug::hug::hug:

~ waves ~

Hi everyone.

Derrick went to the movies yesterday with my daughter in law and her two older daughters. And then he had invited his girlfriend, which it turned out
her family was working at the theatre on this night. I had already wondered
if they might be. But didn't know. But this is good because he got to have
a date scheduled on Friday night.

And today we are watching some of the movies she got him for christmas.
And some other ones that were on the 25 days of christmas channel today.

But I seem to have caught a cold since going to the doctor on Friday. But
it was so weird not a sign of it when I was at the doctor's office. But it
was bad yesterday and its been bad today. But I think its getting better.

So at least my asthma isn't acting up too. I reallly still have a couple of
things I need to finish doing so I really hope to feel better soon.

I have to find my mother a present yet.

Donna

Dear Pam

i hope the prosthetist can make that socket fit more comfortably for you! let us know how the appointment goes. :)

Dear Donna

I hope you start feeling better soon. Good luck finding your mom a gift. I still need to get something for my dad. He doesn't want gifts - he is boycotting gifts (not giving/doesn't want either) but i want to just get him a little something all the same, so i have been looking.

:grouphug:

~ waves ~

Dear Pam,
I can see why you want it done right now quickly. It's hard waiting for something like this.
The time will go by when you need it.


Dear Waves,
Yes, I mistyped sleep doc / tdoc.
I don't feel so good. I should have stayed up. The nap made me feel yucky.


Dear Donna,
What is the family channel you mention? I wonder if we get that channel?
I hope that your cold goes away quickly.


M.

I might not pass my class due to my paper being submitted late. I hate those reference pages I have to put together. They are so time consuming. I am at the moment running on two hours of sleep due to school crunch time. I feel like making some cookies! But that will have to wait till tommorow. I have to pack for my trip tommorow for New YORK! :) in a few more days I will get married! I leave Tuesday. My honey is sick I hope he feels better by the time I get there.

I love my car and I love driving it. I just love driving around and all over town it makes me so happy and I feel so free. I have to say I wish I could bring it to New York so I can just drive around. But that would be crazy!

I am free from school for a good few weeks! I am happy for that! But I have 12 credits to take in the winter sememster after new Years! ACK!

But I can do it! I will make myself do it at this rate. I found a good coffee shop to study at. I got a lot done there last time so I will do it from now on.

hurray for solutions! I just hope i keep at it. I usually stop and then hate myself later for it. lol

It has been a great weekend. just very busy with school and work that is why.

Sharla

I am doing OK. Better than before.
I am on this pain drug called Tramadol. It is not a narcotic, but works like one.
So I function a lot better. I set an alarm for 6 A.M. and take one with a paracetamol 500 and go bach to bed. By the time I get up around 8, I am much better.

My best friend has parkinson's, so I've been checking out a few things online.

I have now begun to revise my knowledge of Sanskrit so I can read the original terxts of the Old Indian philosophies better. So I made some progress on that. And I did a lot of other reading too.

Daughter went to the Polo Ground on Saturday and took some pictures. Here are some:

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik...f_g3gvy5d90&zw

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik...f_g3gvyvds1&zw

And this is my daughter at work-

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik...f_g3gvzbhy2&zw

Dear Isis,
I can't remember how to get to the links /pics.
Am I doing something wrong?
Mari

links only accessible to OP / mail user
 

the links posted above are to personal mail, which uses cookies/authenticated session. we have had this happen before. the original poster will of course be able to see them for a while.

however the links will be inaccessible to everyone else.

to post the pix, they need to be downloaded from mail, then uploaded to NeuroTalk. alternatively they can be uploaded to another website and links can then be posted which will work.

~ waves ~

I PASSED MY CLASS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM MAKING WAFFLES NOW~:hug:

Sharla

Dear Sherla,
Congrats on the class. :D
You worked hard.
M.

Sharla

I totally agree with Mari, you definately worked hard on the class.

Good luck with next semester.

And have a great trip to New York. Wishing we could be there for your
wedding.

Donna

Hi everyone

I am doing okay, really still coughing but at least I have been able to
sleep. My husband has been cleaning the house some. We are having
the kids here for christmas.

I hate this once again I'm going to have a cold or something keeping
me from being much help. But at least I'm not as bad as last year.

Hopefully I'll not get as bad. I really don't know what causes these
things to start.

But hoping Derrick doesn't get it.

Donna

Excellent, Sharla!!! Yippeee!!!
 

Alriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!!! :D :yahoo: :D

:winner_first_h4h:

I'm really happy for you, Sharla. :) You really deserve this.

mmm... did you eat up all them waffles there... i thought i caught a whiff of waffle from all the way over here... :D;) yummmm!

~ waves ~

sending well wishes, Donna
 

Dear Donna,

I hope you feel better soon. Maybe even for Christmas! ;) And like you said that Derrick doesn't catch it. I am glad your husband is helping out at home.

As for the causes... for a cold... well, generally we fight them off... stress can lower your immune response... that's probably what happened if it is just a cold - i do hope it is just a cold, and not an "or something." :o

((( healing hugs )))

~ waves ~

Dear Pam,
I hope your appointment goes well Today.
Good luck with the little guy's appointment on Wednesday.
M.

Hi everyone

Today is my husbands birthday. He and his cousin are going to Golden Corral for supper. It's both their favorite places. I'm personally so happy they
are going because I still don't feel well enough to go anywhere to eat.

I have been feeling better at times but then I get worse. But overall I feel
a lot better. I just wish I could get completely over whatever this is.

I have to go out tomorrow. I will not miss my massage for this week. It would just make my christmas and most of this next week miserable. I am
also going to get my hair trimmed and shampooed. I can't do that because
of the cold and the way I feel. So I'm going to splurge.

I think thanks to a couple of things I didn't realize my husband had bought
for my mom I'm done with my shopping. But I do have a couple of stocking
stuffers and candy to get.

I really don't know what to get for Derrick's stocking, maybe I'll get him
some lottery tickets for one things.

Also he has hurt his middle finger, he had ice on it all night, and this morning.
It was swollen, I'm afraid it might need a xray. So he maybe going with
Dad and cousin to supper and get a xray.

Donna

Dear Donna,
 

Donna,

What is happening with your son's finger? Is he ok?

I love that you are making the massage a priority.
Did you get your hair done too?
I need to do my hair but the stores are sooooo busy right now.

Sorry that you are not feeling well.
Feel better soon. :hug: :heartthrob: :hug:

Mari

Yes, I got my hair done and my massage.

And Derrick's finger is better. So it is okay I think.

Donna

I haven't had a hair cut in months because of being unwell (much of my life is on hold). But fortunately from a very short style it has grown out into a decent shape.
After a looong time we have guests coming over for dinner Saturday night, and I'll need to look decent. :(
The house is all dressed up with flowers, and now it is my turn to dress up.
I have wool jersey tomato red trousers with a long tunic that at once puts colour on my face, so that will possibly be a good idea. I have help to do the cooking which tend to be my own recipes. Going to avoid the heavy meals that are mostly served this time of the year, and use a lot of fruit marinades. Please keep your fingers crossed so that I manage to entertain somewhat decently.

:Help:

Dear Donna
 

I am glad you got your massage and hair done, and that Derrick's finger is better.

I really need a decent hair cut too! (but i have to wait.) i could probably use a massage as well... but oh well... not available. and it is my shoulders so it is not something i can do myself coz massage one = tense the other :rolleyes:.

I hope your cold thing is letting up too. :hug:

~ waves ~

Dear Isis,

I hope that your evening goes well on Saturday.
You will look good with your wool jersey tomato red trousers

I hope you enjoy yourself and your guests.
M.

Mari, you are so kind!
:hug:

Hoping all are doing well.

Isis, have a great time and night on Saturday.

Donna