Just Need To Vent: Too Much At Christmas

[nycowboy]

I'm not doing too much at Christmas time. But boy, I'm exhausted.

My younger son has had a terrible cough thing, (he is ok - but home from school to rest), and kid sickness always takes a toll on me. Even moreso is the FEAR of my kids getting sick. They are 10 and 13, so it's not like they are 2 and 5 any more, but I still have a lot of fear of disruption to my world when kids get sick.

I fell on my back/hip two weeks ago when horse riding. Not a serious fall, at all. I was fine and continued to ride.

Then last Saturday my horse took off when I was mounting and I fell and hit the same place. I was "ok" though.

Then on Monday I fell on an icy sidewalk and hit the same place again! Now I was in pain.

Thanks to "icyhot" patches and NSAIDS I'm feeling a lot better, but for 2 days, I couldn't walk up stairs. I had to crawl. And I had trouble sleeping. And my wife said I was crying in my sleep.

I've been home part-days with my son as he recovers. I have the ever-present fear of me getting sick... especially now that "holly jolly" Christmas is coming.

I cried this morning for no reason. My poor wife!

But when I was home... I got her birthday cake made (its Dec. 19th!) and wrapped all of her Christmas presents. So that time at home was a blessing.

But I'm just feeling so very tired now. :(

And it was snowing hard this morning. My drive was easy, but a lot of my colleagues had a huge amount of trouble getting here.

And my wife's family party is on Saturday.. The weather "doofs" are saying a lot of snow in the morning, then ICE. I'm not driving in crappy weather. But I feel horribly guilty about missing that stupid party. It is the only time in the year that my wife's big family (dad is one of 11) gets together.

I just needed to vent and put everything in writing.

ahh... that feels better.

 

[Deleted member 30036]

Sorry to hear about your son and your falls im glad to hear that you are feeling better and as for the family get together im sure they will understand if you do not attend due to harsh and dangerous conditions on the road and venting is good :) hope you have a good xmas and a happy new year :) *ps send some of that snow to australia its getting hot as hell here*

 

[Gs172003]

I'm not doing too much at Christmas time. But boy, I'm exhausted.

My younger son has had a terrible...

Geez man!! That IS alot! Glad things are getting better!

 

[ladee]

Isn't it awesome to have a place to come to and just say how we feel.
Hope you and your son feel better soon.

 

[nycowboy]

thanks, all, for your kind thoughts.

 

[Freedomfighter]

I'm not doing too much at Christmas time. But boy, I'm exhausted.

My younger son has had a terrible...

Well sounds like just getting that off your chest was what you needed, hihi

 

[Muttly]

Dang, that is a lot going on. That's a lot going on, especially this crazy time pf year. I hope things start calming down and your back mends and no more falls. Have a conversation with your horse about that :P

 

[Shortie]

I'm not doing too much at Christmas time. But boy, I'm exhausted.

My younger son has had a terrible...

Sorry to hear about all of that.

December month for us has been hellish in term of freezer defrosting twice! Ovens knobs popped off, washing mechine is now holding our clothes hostage and now the drier is broke! These are not old either five year old at least for each appliance. Then i dropped the hair drier and broke that.

Others half got a stonking cold. I got rushed to hospital last week. My heart dediced to run away.

This week everything is calmer!


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