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It just gets worse! Why am I cursed?????

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Rhubarb · 10/04/2006 09:43

Last night I nearly lost it with the kids, with dh with everything. They've all been ill for 3 weeks, this is the 4th week. First dd had a bad dose of flu and was bad for over a week, she now sees flashing lights in her eyes from time to time and says strange and disturbing things, I'm very worried about her.
Then dh got her bug and he was laid low for a week, so I looked after the kids alone.
Then ds got a nasty bug, which meant another week of being cooped up looking after another poorly person.
Now dh is ill again, he kept me up all night by forever running to the toilet. He has severe diarrhoea like ds had. To top it off, I've got stomach cramps and slight diarrhoea too.
Today is supposed to be my day off, dd at school, ds at creché, dh at work. I felt I deserved it after doing so much caring for them all and worrying about the move and organising etc. But now dh is here smelling the bedroom and bathroom out. I'm not very well, I'd like to go back to bed but he's in there. The sheets need changing before I sleep in that bed again.

AND - I just got an email from my mum, she's got herself a pc and someone gave her my email address. I was going to write her a letter yonks ago but you wise people told me not to, since then I've not heard a peep out of her. But when I opened the email I just replied and wrote down how I felt and before I knew it I had hit the 'send' button! This will get back to me, I know it will. She'll feign illness because she's so heartbroken over what I've said, I'll get calls from my brother asking me to retract it all, I might even get the howling banshee herself! I know I shouldn't have done it, but the mood I'm in, I just had to get it off my chest. Now I've really messed up!

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ItalianJob · 10/04/2006 09:52

is your DD's bed in a respectable state so you can go for a lie down in that instead? if your DH was well I'ld suggest get him to field all phone calls - would you feel better or worse if you took the phone off the hook/ignored the phone until you felt a bit stronger?

Rhubarb · 10/04/2006 09:56

No-one ever phones so that's ok. If the wailing banshee were to call, it would probably be in the evening and I have caller-id so I don't have to pick up if I see her number.

I will lie down in dd's bed in a bit. Just trying to do research on where to live in Cumbria.

Poor dd asked me if I would pick her up for dinner today as I promised I would, but I can't go out again - and she's having bloody seafood for dinner! Poor thing!

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Rhubarb · 10/04/2006 10:13

Now even MN doesn't care!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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deegward · 10/04/2006 10:16

We care, we care, you will look back on this and laugh - ok maybe not laugh but sob hysterically. Sorry things are bad Sad

rummum · 10/04/2006 10:17

Hi Rhubarb... sorry all this shit is happening to you...

BullyingLondonLegalBods · 10/04/2006 10:18

Oh sweetheart.

Big hugs for you all..............

Sherlock

georginarf · 10/04/2006 10:19

rhubabrb we care

But I can't post myself this morning as too upset/furious and I would just rant hopelessly.

Sorry it's all going so badly for you. But if your are ill too, DH is going to have to pull his finger out and give you some rest too. Strike a deal with him where he gets out in an hour and changes the sheets. Or something.

BettySpaghetti · 10/04/2006 10:25

Shit Rhubarb -talk about "It never rains but it pours" -you've had it all. Sad

Would it help to go out somewhere? -either a walk around the countryside where you are or a walk round nearest town and pop into a cafe? Anything just to get out and clear your head and give you time-out

Rhubarb · 10/04/2006 10:31

Thanks guys! I feel like one of those people who are endlessly moaning, and after a while you take precautions to make sure you avoid them!

Dd said to me this morning that sometimes she felt like squashing ds! I told her that so do I! He was screaming and crying for 2 hours last night (there nothing wrong with him, I checked everything). Because he's been ill, he's been pandered a bit and now he's just going around hitting, biting, kicking, screaming. He refuses to walk, he refuses to talk, etc etc!

It's gotta get better than this. We're just going through a bumpy ride. I'll have a nap this aft and see if I feel any better.

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ItalianJob · 10/04/2006 10:33

after 2 hours screaming in the middle of the night never mind the squashing, i'ld be considering putting him on ebay Grin. No wonder you are feeling sh*te having had a night of wearing toddler behaviour.

ItalianJob · 10/04/2006 10:33

after 2 hours screaming in the middle of the night never mind the squashing, i'ld be considering putting him on ebay Grin. No wonder you are feeling sh*te having had a night of wearing toddler behaviour.

Rhubarb · 10/04/2006 10:39

I'm seriously considering that!

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