June 07 - Better Living Through Chocolate

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Shame about your pooter Sputnik.

Well I still have the desktop. How long til your DH gets back T?

sorry T; I asked how you were and then buggered off

Sorry to hear about the meds and the reaction; which one was it? And sorry your GP gave you ADs....do you think it's PND, or just post natal exhaustion? Given how mad it is here with DD and bumble, I can only imagine how bad it must be at yours if they are all kicking off at once.

When is DH back?

im good sputnik, ellen been hard work today, well they both have but im used to it with tom it doesnt knock me for six like it does with ellen.

i agree with daisy T, the docs were quick to write me off as PND when i actually had Post Tramatic Stress.
how do you feel in yourself?

DH back in about 4 weeks. But probably not that long till he buggers off again. She gave me Setraline (sp?) but it seems to be a very unusual side effect. I am definitely exhausted but don't know if that's all it is or if GP right about PND.

I'm on sertraline and iirc it did have some strange side effects when I first started taking it. I like it though as it makes me feel normal, where fluoxetine made me feel like a zombie.

Of course I have to remember to actually take the sertraline

lol daisy

Didn't really get a chance to see if it made a difference to my mood. I had called NHS direct about the rash & both the first person I spoke to (a midwife) & the doc who rang me back later felt that it wasn't caused by the meds & I should stick with them. But they sent me to the hosp clinic to be seen & it was the doc there who thought the reaction due to the AD's. I suppose I really should go back to my GP but it means asking my mum to babysit again, not that she'd mind, but I have been relying on her very heavily.

Right, off to bed. No point complaining of exhaustion & then sitting up all night. Reckon I've a couple of hours before it all kicks off.

Night folks.

take care Tbelle

FWIW sertraline made me hot and sweat a lot.

night all

Take Care T; wish I was closer and could help; other people's children being much easier to deal with than one's own

Ria, you OK?

Morning all

Take care Tallulah....sounds like you need to go back to the GP....hope you're ok and got some sleep.

Ria - what's up? Are you ok?

Fairy....see you're back from your hols.....did you have a good time?

Got to try and get GP appointment for LO today. He's got a small white lump on his gum - not hard enough for a tooth.....doesn't move, doesn't hurt (so not an ulcer)....odd ....but I'm obviously worried as I've had a couple of panic attacks since finding it, so if nothing else, need my mind putting at rest.

Morning - been up since midnight, finally got some quiet around 6;30 but now DT1 off again. Gah. Need some sleeeeeep.pleeeeease.

Norty I think DD had that & DT1 too, wee white bit under the gum? Could it be a tooth in waiting? Tooth didn't appear for many many months in DD case though.

Oh your poor thing T....hope you get some sleep in during the day - if they all nap together?

Doesn't look - or feel - like a tooth. Looks like a big whitehead, but is hard and immobile - feels more like cartilage IYKWIM. Oh well, sure the GP will make me feel like a neurotic mother as she usually does.

Tbelle, hope you get a better day today. You are brilliant to manage with DH away though, (when I moan cos my DH has been gone for an hour)

I decided this morning I could actually cope with my little millstones getting up at the crack of dawn - if they didn't speak

daisy, norty, thanks for asking. Am OK-ish, just crap day yesterday getting me down. Sorry for not replying on FB, I thought it best not to put it on there, it not being as anonymous as here (and DH might see) - both me and DH losing faith in this "job" he's waiting to start. He still hasn't been paid and it just seems like another big joke (no money until they feel like it, but they still expect him to go in at their beck and call). Anyway I managed the supermarket shop on next to nothing, and DS1 told his grandad very sadly about the trip to Headlingley, so grandad offered to pay if there was still a place (and a tiny bit cross with DS for doing it, because I think DF wanted to offer when I told him but didn't want to offend IYSWIM?) TBH it was more the school trip than the shopping that upset me(!), as we couldhave managed OK with the contents of the cupboards and freezer. We are both a bit jaded I think, and I really can't see the point in DH carrying on with this "opportunity" if it's just going to be as shit as all the others, and at the minute its not great because obviously his JSA is adjusted to any money he's earned so he gets nothing from them, and then not getting paid doesn't help. Sorry to be so self-obsessed I know there are other people far worse off than us, it's just been so long now, and it's tedious!

bet you wish you hadn't asked now

on the plus side, DS1 played cricket 3 times yesterday! PE, school team training, and village juniors training! And DS2 had his first proper "play date" with tea - but they were both starving and I was making (perfect) scrambled egg at 8.30pm!

aw ria we are in a similar situation here, no money for weeks and savings are rapidly decreasing everytime we have to top up the meters or buy food.
its depressing isnt it, when you are DUE money and its not being paid! garr!

my breathless attacks are still going on, even tho ive been on the spatone for weeks now. im at a loss to what it is, it feels like someone is squeezing my lungs and i cant get enough air in
docs are not taking me seriously, i expect i will have to collapse and be rushed to a&e b4 they listen

do you think it's panic Natty?

have just applied for another job for DH. Sod 'em all.

Now have to fill in my OU application correctly this time, and get it posted off

back later x

i dont know ria, ive been under more stress then this before, and not had anything like this.
but it has got worse since DH has been busy at uni, we've not seen him for a few weeks now.

def seems worse when the kids are awake.

its so baffling

Sounds like asthma to me Natty. Did the docs rule that out?

Sputnik may have a point Natty....plus a baby is taking up most of your abdominal cavity!

DS has a cartilaginous cyst on his gum which is nothing to worry about and will go apparently. Feel much better now - although got a raging headache...release of tension probably!

Oh Ria ....it will sort itself out one day...the uncertainty is a PITA isn't it! Cricket for DS1 sounds like it is going well....I'd love my DS to get into something like that, but when he was sitting on his daddy's lap at the weekend watching Man City lose (again), I suspect he will be a football nut like his dad....probably will learn all the terraces language at an early age if his father has anything to do with it .

I am a bit relieved that DS2 has decided football training is boring. I'd love him to play, but last Friday night I was thinking he's only 5, I'm not ready for him to grow up into a "football kid"just yet (DS1 never fitted in with the team either), not that there's anything wrong with most any of them, but there's usually one that's a sore loser/spits/is a bit nasty or a bit "clever", and I don't want my baby to be like that just yet

attention Ebay sellers

I have heard a rumour that from next month, sellers HAVE to offer free P&P on some goods.

Ebay's official line is some bollocks about 'keeping in line with other retailers' but the reality most likely is that Ebay want to charge higher fees... and as they currently don't charge fees on P&P, this is their way of doing that.

So if you have anything to get shot of, do it now.

Also, I am becoming extra aware of chargebacks/lack of seller protection in Ebay and Paypal.

Be careful folks.
After I get shot of my camera... it's back to bootsales for me. Ebay is now great if you're a buyer, but a selling minefield.

here it is

I agree Fury....its often more trouble than its worth selling on e-bay these days (and I am a seasoned e-bay seller - and buyer)....I too am doing a boot-sale on bank holiday weekend to get rid of loads of stuff, that previously I would've sold on e-bay. P&P is getting expensive as well. Someone I know has been caught out on a £260 credit card recharge which was a scam as there was nothing wrong with the item and it arrived at its destination. I recently bought some clothes for DS as a bundle - and the seller sent all sorts of crap - different sizes, some stained etc. I done her for wrong description which paypal agreed with me - but unless I paid to return the item (which had to be tracked - so extra 75p for recorded) I wouldn't get my money back - and she would then be able to re-sell whereas I would be out of pocket. I told Paypal exactly what I thought of their protection policies!

Its e-bay's way of getting more money out of us!

thanks for the heads up on that fury.

hope DS is OK norty and the cyst doesn't cause him too much trouble.

for DH's "job" Ria; his industry sounds like a minefield and that chefs are open to be taken for a ride. Try not to be too cross with DS about telling the GPS he couldn't go on the trip.

I am in this afternoon. DS has been in trouble at school and has split a boy's head open . Apparently they were playing a rough and tumble game and DS got fed up with this boy as he was getting too aggressive, so he went and told the lunchtime supervisor (one point to DS for doing the right thing). The teacher tried to call the other boy over to tell him off, and he wouldn't listen to her, or come over (minus two for the other boy). Sooooo, DS decided to take matters into his own hands and picked up a wooden stilt and hit the other boy over the head, and also got another friend involved who started throwing things at the boy as well (minus a hundred for DS). Then they started fighting and DS has a scratch on his neck where the injured boy tried to strangle him. Anyhoo the boy's head was bleeding and his parents were called and they were taking him to the docs to see whether he needed hospital or not. My chin was on the floor as DS's teacher was telling me all of this. The other boy involved was looking suitably chastised and remorseful (looking at his shoes, the usual stuff) but DS was kicking the ground with his feet and trying to justify why it was OK that he did it . He is saying he is sorry for it, but I can tell he thinks that he was right . I've sent him to his room until teatime as when I said that Dad and I would talk to each other and then decide what was going to happen, he said "well I tell you what won't happen....my new bike won't be sent back". all he cares about is the bloody bike. I am utterly at him, but also a bit as I feel responsible for him turning out like this as I haven't exactly been a good role model with my inability to be calm and collected although I don't go lashing into people with sticks. He has lost his playtimes and won't get his golden time on Friday (last half hour is free play), but I'm surprised he has gotten off I so lightly. He's lucky he hasn't been suspended, and I'm inclined to ask the school to do it, so that he can see how much bother he is in. I can't believe it.

Sorry, that was a bit of an essay. Did I tell you all how I am?

He's shaping up to be a right little thug