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That's the catch 22 isn't it? :(

Thank you so much for all your replies - I am honestly quite overwhelmed. When I logged on it said "one person had replied, there may be more after that" and I thought oh, maybe a a couple - but wow! That is a lot to take in :happy: Oh Springer - he has his moments... :wideeyed: I did however...

This could be an odd - and possibly long - post! For over a month now I have been having trouble with my back, and had pain somewhere around my shoulder blades. It started the week before we were supposed to be on holiday - I know I was slumping over my desk at work. I was tired and so looking...

Sent! Finally - sorry!

Looking after yourself, as said previously, is - I believe - the only thing you can do right now. Your husband sounds to be in a very bleak place and you are such a good person for trying to help him. But you cannot help him if you allow him to drag you down with him. I think you maybe need to...

Today I ordered my Crock Pot!!! I've been keeping an eye on one on Amazon, and it's now got 20% off it - I'm gambling on the theory that it wont go down much further so went for it - it should be here by Friday. Also... working on the theory that I'm not going to let things pass me by anymore...

I have no advice - but I do have a (((hug))). It must be hard on all three of you but in three very different ways. xxx

:inlove: Yay - thank you all... well, except maybe the lady who posted the pumpkin-poop photo...!!! :roflmao: I have a feeling that could stay with me for a while :notworthy: ;) I shall be here first thing Wednesday morning to see what you post... in the meantime, I might just have to have a...

That's excellent news - Therapy is so hard to come by in this country. Fingers crossed that it all goes really well (for you both) x

I made a resolution last year that this year I wasn't going to let things pass me by, so with Halloween coming up... does anyone have a good pumpkin pie recipe? It's not something that we usually see in the UK - I only just discovered that you can get pumpkin in a tin (can)!!! My oven isn't up...

Still waiting for mine to arrive so I can posit it - sorry!

Hello Dixie D - I hope that things are a little better for you by now? I just wanted you to know that you are not the only one. Mine does something similar - often for no obvious reason, but I will find out later that there is something eating away at him. Last week for example, we both had the...

It's fantastic to read that Bilby - I am so happy for you. Everyone on here deserves happiness and I am very glad that things are going so well xxx

I'll agree - sounds very much like a panic attack. I don't get them so often but if I do I find that I wake up with them rather than have them randomly in the middle of the day. I don't have an answer for them - I just wait for them to subside - but I also agree that you should see a doctor...

Firstly - congratulations on your forthcoming little one - that is fantastic news... sorry the congratulations are a bit late! I saw something on the television the other day about announcing the gender through a cake - that's lovely! That sounds like the best idea in the whole wide world! I...

I'm a big believer in planning! Not saying I get around to doing it... :roflmao: but I do try - you can SO notice the difference in meals between a week that has had a meal plan and a shopping list and week where we've been shopping each day for something at 6:00pm with the munchies! There's...

Hi Everhopeful - this may be a bit late, and you may have posted elsewhere... I shall check! But in the meantime your original post reminded me of that quote - if you love someone set them free, if they love you they will return (or some such) and it just seemed to fit. I am sorry that he was...

Good luck with your new healthy eating plan Solara - it is something I would love to do. I have a fantasy of growing all my own veggies and never looking at a ready meal ever again... :happy: Husband (Sufferer) has terrible stomach troubles - you can hear him rumble in another room :eek: so we...

Oh I heard the author talking on the radio the other day Ayesha - it sounds fascinating. Fact meets fiction - a great combination!

Oh StrongerNow - I am so incredibly sorry for your loss. It is the hardest decision a person ever has to make - but you chose to let her go to a place without pain and by the sounds of it she had a pretty good time beforehand too.

Received! I am amazed - it was waiting on the doorstep yesterday afternoon - thank you in advance! Better get shopping!!!

Could you... do what you get paid to do part time (or just slightly less than full time) and volunteer in your chosen area for a day or half a day each week? I studied something fairly similar to you, came out of uni and worked in a shoe shop for the next five years!!! It was pretty soul...

Just catching up with this and agree completely with NurseNurse - Husband's mum has early stages of dementia and when he rings she throws it all at him - she's on the bottom, can't cope, weighs 5 stone, everyone's against her, they want to lock her up etc etc so we rush up there and she's fine...

Hey Sugra - I was a bit confused too!!! Thank you Kahlan for explaining! All you can do is arm yourself with information and do the best you can - it's all any of us can do. I like the sound of the Beaver family... maybe one day eh? xxx

Part of me wants to say "take the moral high ground" - she is in the wrong and you are in the right. But she is poorly. But then so are you and her illness is affecting you and your illness. Part of me wonders if you could try to tell her that her actions make you poorly - but she could so...