starting over

Started by sanmagic7, October 20, 2024, 12:12:39 PM

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Phoebes


Desert Flower

Sending you and your D loads of good wishes, I hope she heals well. You're so brave going through all of this.  :hug:

sanmagic7

phoebes, you brought a smile to my face with that !  thanks so much! :hug:

thank you, DF.  i never thought of myself as brave, actually.  just had to get thru it.  i had lots of help, so thanks to everyone for that. :hug:

first day of recovery is over and went well.  i'm feeling old, tho.  i'm bowed over, can't walk upright anymore, had to carry the cat litter inside and i could barely make it from the door to my D's room.  my body is sore from sitting in uncomfortable chairs, walking back and forth thru hallways w/o my walking shoes on for the day.  bending over to clean the litter yesterday also nearly did me in and i had to sit for several minutes afterward.  dang!  i got totally old in one day!

my D said she began feeling a little sick yesterday, said hardly anyone in the hospital was wearing a mask and she had people touching her all day, so she's afraid she brought something home w/ her.  dang, i hope not!  we've been sick more often in the past 8 mos. since we moved here than we had in the past 8 years!  actually, for 8 years we didn't have one sick day between us.  now that we've been seeing people, going out a little more, illness has been everywhere!  did not expect this, do not like this one bit.  i hope she's ok today.

sanmagic7

sick, now.  will this freakin' nightmare ever end?

Chart

San, Yes, it will end. Everything changes, just a question of when. Too, often when we change environments our immune systems need time to "adjust". I think big changes can stress the immune system and it can take time (months, and even longer) for your systems to settle into place. Things will get better, promise!
 :hug:

sanmagic7

as long as you promise, chart, i'll believe you!  thank you for that. :hug:

and chart was right, i'm not so sick now.  both my D and i believe it was a reaction to having all the crisis over with, and one of her friends told her she thought we were exhausted and that was our bodies' reactions.  probably. 

at any rate, so grateful for all the help we're getting.  it's truly a godsend.  and the support from everyone here.  thank you to all of you!

Desert Flower

Quote from: sanmagic7 on February 10, 2025, 01:05:20 PMthat was our bodies' reactions
very likely

I'm glad you're feeling a little better. Keep taking care  :hug:

sanmagic7

thanks for the validation, DF. :hug:

down yesterday, still feeling crappy today.  ugh.  i hear the phrase 'i'm so over this' from people in a stressful situation, but it confuses me cuz they're still in it, from what i can see, still hurting.  for me, i wish i was over this.

sanmagic7

took meds last nite, was able to sleep much better, and what a difference in how i feel this morning.  dang.  looks like i may need to see a doc eventually just to be able to get more meds.  of course, all that's been going on in the past year, it's becoming clearer to me why i'm so out of whack.  hopefully, i'll somehow be able to get to some semblance of normal eventually.  dang, that would be really good.

lovely snow outside today.  it's so pretty.  i realized i haven't been in bunches of snow and cold weather for nearly 25 yrs.  that's weird to me to realize.  but, my body's temperature gauge is so outta whack, too, and i don't really know if that will fix itself or not.  don't know if it's connected to stress.  in mexico, our a/c was set to 77 and that's the temp i slept in.  now, it's below freezing, i have my window cracked, and i often feel warm/sweaty when i sleep.  so many changes . . .