Hi all, needing someone to tell me to get a grip really.
it’s been a tough few months. We have a now 10 month old DD (who is the greatest little thing in the world). My husband is always away because of work, I’m back at work and of course trying to juggle running a home, looking after DD and the balancing act of dealing with back to back illnesses without pissing off my work. To top it all off I have tenosynovitis in my right wrist. I had steroid injections back in the summer, which worked beautifully on my left wrist but my right gets progressively worse. I can’t write, use scissors, put tights/leggings on, sew (an important part of my job) without being in a lot of pain. It makes work difficult, handling DD difficult and my hobbies impossible. So it’s not exactly been the most wonderful time recently (again, I love being a mum and my daughter’s little smile gets me through anything).
Anyhow, it’s my birthday in a couple of days and it’s so far been very disappointing. I know birthdays aren’t a big deal at my age and I’m not usually hung up on it but this year has been disappointment after disappointment. My DM promised me a fun day out on the 14th - the 14th came and went and it would seem that she forgot and hasnt mentioned anything since. My DB also promised me a little birthday outing that seems to have been forgotten about. My DH basically took the attitude of “you haven’t told me anything you want so you’re not getting anything” and he’s not the type to give me flowers (I will add though that aside from this he has always been a fantastic husband and a wonderful dad and is incredibly helpful with parenting when he is here). He was meant to be coming home this weekend and my mum had said she would babysit so DH and I could celebrate, however my DH now can’t come home because of work (im not annoyed at him for this, not his fault just really annoying) and even if he could, my mum, DD and I suspect myself have come down with conjunctivitis.
Last week was horrendous solo parenting, getting 3 hours of broken sleep every night as DD teething, as well as work being busy and made the pain in my wrist a lot worse. I know I’m BU for making a thing out of my birthday at this age but after a very difficult few months there’s just so much I was excited for that’s now not happening and I just feel really down. I was just excited for a nice day.