Lelarose Desperately Depressed #2

[thatsnotmymonkey]

Hi Lela, I hope this is OK, come over here. We will all be here for you. xx

There does seem to be a tummy bug doing the rounds here. It rattled through nursery & subsequently our house a couple of weekends ago. If it's owt like ours lela then the sickness & shivering doesn't last very long at all - only a few hours. But I would have given my right arm for a dry fart for following couple of days!
We went through loo paper like it was going out of fashion

Hope your tummy feels better soon - if there's a lack of dioralyte then sipping flat, full-fat coke seems to help sometimes.

kibbutz, I think you mean well, but I honestly feel that it is unwanted. With respect and with love, please may I ask you to leave this thread.

You can post what you like where you like, and of course feel free to tell me to take a running jump!

night, lela. sleep well.

Hope your tum is improved this morning lela.

Hi, i'm bit better, able to eat this morning and kept it down so far. Still wiped out and aching but just taking it easy. Am getting a bit paranoid its been toxoplasmosis (from changing cat litter) as i know this can seriously harm the baby. I might call the hospital to get reassured, as I've been stressing about it since last night.

Just all keep your fingers crossed I dont go into labour till I'm feeling a bit stronger physically.

kibbutz if your purpose is to make me realise I'm responsible for my own recovery from this then its not necessary I'm fully aware of that. Its a shame you never read the first thread before giving your opinions and judgements. I have accepted all the psychiatric help, medication and counselling I could get as i desperately want to get beter and know that only I can do it. I dont think that means I'm not entitled to support though. I've been battling severe depression for 9 months, am very isolated due to circumstances and vulnerable due to this being my first pregnancy which I've spent most of alone. It was very hard for me to admit my feelings on here at first.

I feel sad that you feel you have to say this stuff and really would ask you to just leave this alone if those are your opinions.

The ladies you criticise have helped me enormously and been there for me when I've had no one else and personally I think they talk a lot of sense. I'm sorry If you didn't get You refer to "people like us" but I dont think we are really alike and I'd realy like you to leave this thread alone now, whatever you think of it, please consider that I'm physically ill right now, days away from going into labour and its really a bit unfair to keep having a go right now.

Hi Lela, just wanted to let you know I'm still following your thread and thinking of you, and think you're doing really well though you feel so bad. Sorry you've been unwell. It doesn't sound like toxoplasmosis but just an average bug. Didn't know you had a cat. Does she keep you company at all? Does she like to sit with you and be stroked?

Lela your bug sounds like what I had yesterday and that was horrid without being weeks away from labour so I sympathise muchos.

I'm feeling a lot better and I hope you do too.

Just be assured that even if you go into labour now you will cope. Your body just does it, believe me, been there. Forces of nature are amazing.

Thanks I just spoke to the midwife and she doesnt think thats what it was so I need to try and put it from my mind. A very unhelpful woman at work recently told me a story about someone who's baby was blind due to this and its just something else for me to get paranoid about, but I cant afford to go there right now.

The cat is lovely and sleeps with me at night but he's generally more interested in his food than anything else.

Sorry, don't know why I just assumed he was a she! No, don't go there with the toxoplasmosis. That's not what you had, I'm sure. Can you do anything nice today? Can you concentrate on reading, or do you watch TV?

Agree, there's a bug been going round, I think, and it's damn bad luck that you caught it just now. Take it easy today - try and find a crap film on channel 5, have tea and toast and be very gentle on yourself.

Yeah I'm not really planning on getting dressed today or moving from this sofa much at all if possible.

Counting the hours til dp gets home, even though he laughed at me projectile vomiting on the kitchen floor yesterday and for sounding so feeble on the phone last night!

This will hopefully be him home til after the birth which will help me enormously. He makes me feel safer and has promised to look after me when I'm in labour.

jane I've been thinking of you too and hoping that you are feeling more at peace with everything x

Hi Lela
I'm still here too and glad you are feeling better. The best thing about bugs is that they do only tend to last a day or so so at least that's a silver lining.

I am so pleased your DP is back tomorrow and will be there for you both till after the birth. I am so amazed at your strength Lela, coping like you have pretty much on your own. You are such a strong woman. Remember that....
Hugs x

Guess what he just called and said he is driving down the road right now as he got away early and wanted to surprise me!

He's been away 6 weeks out of the last 7 so even in my pathetic physical state I feel like a wee kid at xmas right now.

excited for you Lelarose!

Oh thats good news about the bug subsiding & DP on his way home - top lad

oh, hurray, lela! hope he's home soon.

That is lovely, so glad he can come and see you. Feel better soon xx

Started new job and haven't been on for a few days. I had a bug like that recently and it left me feeling like crap. Definitely not toxo thing. GP said you can't really have too much dioralyte, just keep drinking it till you feel better if you still feel crap. Good excuse to lie around watching crap on TV.

Hope you're snuggling with your DP Lela!

About the toxo...the blindness from dog poo was reported in the newspaper recently (London Metro certainly) - the fact that its newsworthy enough to be reported shows how relatively uncommon it is really. In 2000 there were roughly 100 confirmed cases in the whole of the UK...so not very many at all (I did a report on this a while back). And the symptoms are more mild flu or no symptoms at all. And I assume if you clear cat litter you wash your hands afterwards - so you should be fine. Get DP to clear it out now he's home though - but mostly just cos its a horrible job!

There is a fair bit of vomity bug doing the rounds - my littlest DS just had some 12h hurlfest thing - right as rain though afterwards.

Hope having your DP back gives you some relief and support. XX

I'm so glad that your partner is back and back for a while - yay!

I've also heard that there's a horrible bug going around at the moment. Ew. Look after yourself - or better still, make your partner do it :)

Thanks so much for the reassurance. He is home now so I feel a lot more secure. Still exhausted but not being sick anymore.

Thank you for the lovely caring messages xxx

Find some good films, snuggle up and enjoy being with dp.