having a bad morning

[utopia]

@BlueBay. I'm single so have to do the work myself. Trying to keep busy during my days. Takes my mind off things.
Yes only the one child. He will have a long day. I'm going to clean my kitchen. Maybe pull everything out of the pantry and wipe it all down and check used by dates. Been years since I've done this.
Deep breaths and then calming slow breaths for you this afternoon. Helps think clearer and feel calmer - before yiur psych appointment.
Good on you for getting your hair colored. I'm going naturally grey. Grey almost at ear level. The rest if my hair is old dyed hair.

[Faith-and-Hope]

Morning @BlueBay @utopia @Former-Member .... ☕️😊

I have got a full-on week with two of my girls, but I'm doing top he occasional drop-in on line to say hello .... still early here ....

Thinking of you @BlueBay ..... enjoy being pampered at the hairdresser .... stay strong  ....

Sounds industrious @utopia.  I am in that state of doing a lot, but not much to show for it at the moment cos my environment is up-side-down at the moment .... and there is so much to do in buts and pieces across the next few days that I am only going to be able to put things back in order in increments, and on the run .... should start looking okay by Friday, which is when it needs to be .... 

@Former-Member it's good to see you settling in .... I think I saw you wrote some poetry on your thread ?  @BlueBay is one of our poets, did you know ?  There is a poetry thread she has posted on quite a lot.

🌷💜

[utopia]

@Faith-and-Hope. Yep the work in and around the house is never ending. Especially if like me you didn't do anything for months and months due to depression. Or like you with hubby and the kids to keep an eye on.
I wanted to do some more weeding today - asI find it ccalming. Housework is not calming. But it's grey and cold and raining here in country Victoria.
Hope your day goes smoothly

[Decadian]

Hi @BlueBay

This is a hard time for you - maybe the feelings of something terrible happening to your MIL are spot on - her time might be nearly up - but this is not necessarily a bad thing - her suffering will be over and the pain she has from her fractures must be confusing for her -

As @Former-Member said - having someone with dementia is a double loss - we all have to leave - and yet  having a loved one in a dazed state is also hard  - I had this with my mother - she was alive and I could recoginise the person in the body - but she changed so much after my father died

It's important for your husband to check that his mother is having pain-management at this time  - suggest to him that it is the best thing for him to do and that is to visit at different times to make sure she is okay - but if he is not up to it - then that's the truth of the mattter - this is a nightmare of a time for him too

What else to say - yes - one day we are all going to die - but until that day we are busy living - but dementia takes that away and life can be very hard -

Thinking of you

Decadian

❤💚💔💖💓❣💛💜💙

[Former-Member]

Thanks @Faith-and-Hope.  No, I wasnt aware that @BlueBay did poetry, or if I was, I sadly forgot.  

Yes I did post a poem I wrote a couple of nights ago to my thread yesterday.  I would definitely not consider myself to be a poet by any means.  I've really only just started to do some in fact in the past couple of months.  But I do find it a great way of expressing myself, and it can be quite liberating because it is an outlet for emotions that otherwise may not get expressed.  However I have found that I only have the inclination to write when I am feeling down, sad, afraid, etc.  I guess I am not a happy poet, only a sad one.  

I will look for the poetry thread that @BlueBay started.  What section would it be under?

Thanks .............

[Faith-and-Hope]

Hi @Former-Member .... 😊

Yes, and I did read it ..... you'll have to forgive me, I have a fuzzy brain today and wasn't sure whether I had confused you with one of our other poetry writers .... 💕

Here is the link -

http://saneforums-access.org/t5/Looking-after-our-wellbeing/Writing-As-A-Form-Of-Therapy/m-p/122170#M8338

@BlueBay has added another one to it this morning .... and I have started a poetry thread on the Carer's forum too ....

🌷💜

[BlueBay]

Thank you @Decadian xxxooo

[Faith-and-Hope]

Beautiful sunshine here today @utopia ....

Feel like I'm thinking through cotton wool tho ..... sigh ..... one of those days .....

💜

[utopia]

@Faith-and-Hope. I know that cotton wool feeling. A bit of brain fog. Never much fun - especially when you have things to do or remember.
Our dark rain clouds must have past by while I took a nap. Still not sunny here though.
I'm feeling very unmotivated and just plan to spend most of the day in bed. Either reading (although hard to concentrate on reading today) or internet or whatever is bareable to watch on tv. Don't have to pick my son up til 9pm tonight. Special band practice with another country school.

[Former-Member]

Thanks @Faith-and-Hope. I will go and check it out via the link you provided.

I do hope that fuzzy brain of yours sorts itself out as the day progresses. (-: