What are you up to today if you have a chronic illness? Thread 7

[MewithME]

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5490534-thread-6-good-griefwhat-are-you-up-to-today-if-you-have-chronic-illness

Fill up last one first 😁

I meant to say earlier that when I was reading about all your gardens and walks in the sunshine I suddenly thought about The Secret Garden, one of my favourite books growing up!

This made me laugh so much. I had the same with my husband today. I moved a new deodorant up a shelf and he exclaimed "where did this deodorant come from??" - it had been on the shelf below for 2 weeks! No clutter here, we call it his "man eyes"!!!

That's so funny. DH was going to the shop this morning and volunteered to buy some sea salt because we'd run out. He assured me he'd searched the cupboard. Of course I looked and there was a full bag. Held it up, to which the reply was "but it's a different colour bag!"

We must be married to the same man 😂😂

I call it ‘boy looking’ as my DS can be similar! 😂

Definitely be a lot easier @TeaAndStrumpets if we had less stuff! I love a good declutter whereas DH likes to keep things in case they’re useful 🙄

But would they notice??

Oh yes....particularly useful cardboard boxes! If anything mechanical breaks he saves the bits. Good bits of metal etc. A proper womble!

Edited to add, on one occasion he dismantled our dead ancient dishwasher to salvage anything useful, and was very upset to find a plastic medicine spoon jammed in the pump...too late, I'd got a new machine by then!

Definitely think I will look into it in the future 😊

It’s linked to my role I’m already doing, I’m on my last module and 3 exams and a professional conversation to go then it’s done ☺️
some days I’m gung ho and very much “yes I can do this!” And some days I am questioning why I am putting myself through this??
Since December though I have moved to online learning with it to cut out the travel to Manchester and they excessive background noise in the class , not sure if it was the ME that heightened it or the fact that the class were all between 18/21 🫣
I had children very young and never got any qualifications worked my way up from working evenings in a corner shop around the kids to be being a team leader in a finance role and I decided I wanted some qualifications I think to see if I could do it. And here I am juggling revision , working and an energy zapping condition not ideal 😂 but will be worth it!

That is quite inspirational! You must be very motivated indeed to do all that alongside being ill. 💐Brilliant!

Thank you! 🥰

@Dozymoo42 Wow. Total admiration.

Wrong thread @Poppy61?

Blooming ridiculous busy stressy dreams again for me, and have woken up very achy. Another quiet day at work though and looking forward to a bit of warmth and sunshine.

Now I'm intrigued!

Woke early, spent an hour in bed worrying about whether I would have an allergic reaction to any of the antibiotics etc in my eye on Friday, thought bugger it and got up for a cup of tea.

It looks like a nice day out there, hope you can all enjoy the sunshine!

Sun is still shining here ☀️

Have my massage this morning then a quiet afternoon, although I may do some more weeding depending on how I'm feeling. There's a patch I want to clear as I have new plants waiting to be planted 🌱

Have a peaceful day all. Glad to hear your drive home as uneventful @MewithME 💕

Beautiful weather here too. Having a quiet day today as ive been socialising for the past few days and really need some down time.

I know i don't post much, but i do like ro catch up with everyone's lives (just nosey)😆

Hope everyone has nice weather where they are ☀️

Morning all, beautiful day and hope you can all enjoy it in some small way.

@Dozymoo42 Wow! Well done you. Total admiration for anyone who manages to study additional qualifications but thats quite a challenge with illness on top!

@TeaAndStrumpets Oh yes I’d forgotten about random cardboard boxes.
Though one advantage of DH’s memory problems is I can recycle them if the pile gets too big as he forgets what he’s saved 😂

@Swanhilde enjoy your massage

@martha79 sympathy to the stressful dreams. Hope your day gets better.

@BerfyTigot 👋 Enjoy your quiet day!

Morning all. I am absolutely going to make the best of today. Going to do some laundry and read a bit in the garden.

My poor colleagues are all in a staff development day but I put the annual leave request in and it was approved so I am not going 😂

Hope loads don't bother. They were silly to schedule it today anyway. I won't be the only one on leave.

Hoping DS does some revision. He's not v good at it. He said they showed a video from a girl on tik tok at school to explain how to revise so that put him off even more 🙈

Nice to see you @BerfyTigot . Enjoy chilling 😊

I must try and get some gardeners booked in. It's been so hard to get reliable ones since my chap retired. I enjoy hearing about yours @Swanhilde .

At least nature enjoys mine as I have long grass frequently and it's a bit wild!

Waves to @BerfyTigot Glad you are still with us!

Ha unfortunately the size of every box is in his mental filing cabinet, no doubt using brain space which would be helpful for other things!

I have been expecting a pre op call from a nurse at the hospital. In my diary it just says "nose rings 8.30" which mystified me for a bit.

@BerfyTigot I’m the same with not posting much but I do enjoy reading the thread. Sometimes all the brain space I have is for reading and not typing

The sun is shining today ☀️but I’m stuck in working sadly.

Me and hubby are absolutely shattered our little doggo has been poorly since Sunday evening and has us up all night being sick and poorly tummy 😢 had her to vets they’ve given her anti sickness jab and special stuff to drink to replace what she is losing but of no diff tomorrow think it will be an in the bets on a drip job - they think she might have an infection in her womb but can’t operate until we get her over this bout of illness .

Thank you 🥰

Fingers crossed she gets well soon.