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Aaargh, it's noro season. Anxious emetophobes this way!!!

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Dottoressa · 09/10/2008 18:48

Hello ladies,

As we seem to have reached our limit on the other thread, I thought I had better start a new one!!

We have the 'positive' one started by our lovely BB - so I suggest we keep this as the 'anxious' one (i.e. the one where we can all say "OMG, it said on the news that someone v-d 200 miles away from me - am I going to catch it?!") We can share our worries, however silly they sound, without undoing the good work on the other thread. What do you all think?

I shall start off by saying that every time DD speaks, I think she's going to say she feels sick!!!

Now that really is neurotic...

xxx

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dottoressa · 28/01/2009 14:36

Wiggle - eek, I hadn't realised it was Benidorm next week. Focus on the idea of some sun, and pack crisps/Marmite/anything else that is reasonably safe to eat!!
As you'll probably remember, I was worried about going to France for the same reason, but it was fine - and Benidorm will be too. x

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wiggleit · 28/01/2009 20:23

Thanks Dot. Just posted you on the other thread. Well done you !! x

Yes, i will be sticking to 'safe' foods while away, (and probably very little too!)

I am trying to focus on the sun and the change of scenery but i still have those nagging negative thoughts in my head...aarrghhh! Bloody phobia!

I need a suitcase just for the medicines i'm taking to cover any stomach eventuallity! (i'm not joking!) My Dh thinks I'm the new supplier for lloyds chemist!

How are you anyway hun?

How is everyone else? xx

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dottoressa · 28/01/2009 21:50

Wiggle - lol at Lloyds chemist!!

I hope you're not over the baggage allowance .

Seriously, I am sure you will have a fab time. You are lucky to be escaping this miserable weather, and if you stick to safe foods, you will have less to worry about.

I'm fine now, thanks - tummy thing has passed off, thank goodness. It was a not a nice few days!

I shall go and look at the other thread now!

Hugs to you all x

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imaginaryfriend · 29/01/2009 17:44

What's the other thread?

wiggleit · 29/01/2009 20:52

Hi if..the other thread is still in the mental health bit but is called - let's confront this fear together.. I would link you but i don't know how! I'm not right brill with computers! How are you? x

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dottoressa · 29/01/2009 21:17

IF: it's here

Or so I hope!!

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dottoressa · 29/01/2009 21:18

It is! Yippee!!

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imaginaryfriend · 29/01/2009 21:35

Oh, is that the positive vibe one? I felt too much of a failure to stick around there!

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dottoressa · 29/01/2009 22:49

Me too! (Except to report my success in having told that GP that I'm a loon ).

I think this thread is my spiritual home, though!

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dottoressa · 30/01/2009 09:14

indeed, lovely BB!

However, I live in hope that it won't always be like this. You particularly have made me think it is possible! xx

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imaginaryfriend · 30/01/2009 14:11

BB I didn't mean it like that at all. I meant more that I feel too much of a failure as I'm not yet in that kind of place where I can say I'm defeating it. I'm definitely needing support through the tricky situations that emerge in life and I got the feeling the way that other thread was turning wasn't in line with what you'd intended for it.

Marne · 30/01/2009 16:29

Hi all, hope you are all ok and bug free. i have had a bad week feeling anxious, i finaly felt almost human yesterday and then dd came home today and said 4 of her best friends are off school ill (thats half of her class), i just hope they are off with colds and not D&V, now i am panicking thinking dd will come down with something.

I'm preying for it to snow this weekend so dd's school will close .

Im not doing very well with my councelling (gradual exposure) and i feel like im getting nowhere .

I know i will feel better when nuro season is over (whenever this will be).

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dottoressa · 30/01/2009 18:30

BB - you couldn't make anyone feel a failure if you tried!

Marne - I share your anxiety...

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mynaughtylittlesister · 30/01/2009 22:48

Well my 2 DDs did their pantomime at School yesterday and today, I had to really keep my cool when I saw a TA looking for someones Grandma this afternoon. I kept telling myself that my DDs were not back stage but at the front of the stage away from possibly ill child. All in all they had a fab time, plus over £1000 was raised for the Sch. So it was a success .

Only have to worry about my youngest 2 DDs and their performance in 10 days at the theatre for their dance school.

Fingers crossed!

michele61 · 31/01/2009 09:32

I just wanted to steer you lot to my post called It is possible to get over sickness fear, also in mental health strand. It's a positive story and I really want to tell you that I was very bad with this, and if I can beat it, anyone can.

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dottoressa · 31/01/2009 11:50

Michele - do you have a link to it? I can't find it, and would love to read it!

Naughty- well done to you and your DDs!

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dottoressa · 31/01/2009 21:07

Thanks, bb. There is hope for us all! x

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Dottoressa · 14/02/2009 20:31

Oops - trolley!

I am too anxious to spell

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Dottoressa · 14/02/2009 20:31

??????? What on earth is this message doing here? It was meant to be on the other thread!!

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Dottoressa · 25/03/2009 20:07

Hello ladies,

I am trying not to post on this thread, but I'm in need of hand-holding...

DH is away. He went on Sat, and we're meeting him in Cornwall a week on Friday - so there's lots more time alone with the children.

I am in a total and utter panic about them v-ing. I hate it when he goes away. I think about it all the time (and I mean all the time).

Today we had a letter from school saying that there was 'an infection in school that has been treated', and could we please reinforce good hygiene after using the loo and before eating. I immediately thought the very worst, and am now in a real stew.

Secondly, we went to the barber's on the way home, where there was another boy from the DC's school. Guess what? Yes, he went all odd looking and told his dad he thought he was going to be sick. I went into panic mode, scooping up DD and moving as far away as humanly possible (whilst not leaving DS entirely stranded in the barber's chair!! If he hadn't been mid-haircut, I'd have left immediately...). The boy didn't v, but he made a horrible choking noise. I almost spontaneously combusted at that point.

It has been a bad day. Do you think there's any chance the school letter is referring to something other than d and v? It's rather oddly worded, so I'm hoping it's threadworms or foot and mouth disease or something!!

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Dottoressa · 26/03/2009 11:21

It is threadworm. Yay!!!

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Dottoressa · 28/03/2009 20:29

More gloom!!

I took the DCs to their swimming lesson today. They'd been in the pool for five mins or so when the instructor came over to talk to me. He said someone had been very sick in the pool earlier that day, and they hadn't had chance to clean it properly - so did I want the DCs to stay in, or did I want to take them out?

Needless to say, I got them out like a rocket - but they had already been in five mins by then, were sodden, and had obviously had water up their noses and so on (they'd been jumping in the deep end).

I need reassurance. I am in such a panic, and DH isn't here. Help!!!!!

I've looked up noro, and chlorine at pool levels doesn't kill it. I keep trying to think that there are lots of reasons for DCs to v, and it's not necessarily noro - but still. As we left, I actually saw bits of something floating in the water.

Please, please, someone - hold my hand. I will now be in total panic mode for the next 72 hrs. And we're going away next Friday...

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