Thanks for all your
pink-eye concerns!
ICUWishing, too funny about just washing well. I’m sure that works, too. This was nasty stuff, though… I did wash thoroughly with soap and got it all in there, 3 times! But, there was so much ick, there was no way I was taking the risk of delaying the antibiotics. As it was, I woke up the next day (yesterday) with my eyes swollen like baseballs. It was awful! I finally felt normal-ish today…
AnnieDrews – I hope Tootsie is healing well and that her prognosis is good
I’m sorry you had to go back to the vet and get things patched up again. Here’s to hopefully some restful nights ahead. And, complain all you want – what you are going through sounds really difficult! I don’t know if this is considered bad practice or not, but can they give her any sort of sedative to try to help her through these few healing days?
AZManatee -- nice to see you back and I’m glad you’re out of your slump! As for work balance, that’s a tough one. I’m sure that you hoped that going part time would provide you with that, but clearly it hasn’t. Can you re-evaluate how much can reasonably fit into the hours you have and then renegotiate expectations?
SuzyMc – Unload here all you want, especially if that helps you stay away from emotional eating; pour it into emotional typing instead! I am so sorry to read about your sister… I hope she can keep the cancer at bay; my heart goes out to you and to her.
Petra – I’m glad to read that you are doing better with food, and are back on the Wii!! As I said earlier, I saw a big difference in the photos… You are doing great! Shrimp and bok choy stir fry is one of my absolute favorites!! Yum! I’m so sorry to read about your continued work stress. It’s hard when you have to give up the things that make the job enjoyable in order to fit all the top priorities in. Will things realistically get better when your friend comes back from leave? Or will the problems just shift? I’m glad to read that you are on track, calories and exercise, today!
OnMyWay – Great job staying under calories and getting your exercise in! And where did your ticker go?? Down 4?! You’ve GOT to get that ticker back!
KittehMomma – I’m glad to read things are going so well; here’s crossing my fingers for the 130s!!
Marie – I hope your healing is continuing along well. How sweet of your DH to be your stitches-removal man!! Hopefully they have all been found… I’m glad your asthma is doing better. Hot mocha during a snowfall – sounds perfect! As for the new BMW and leather, my DH has a saying: where there is coffee, there’s a mess. Hopefully the BMW fared okay! (clearly DH is not a coffee drinker…)
TuningIn – what a rough stretch of time you have had! I’m really sorry to hear about your friend, and your friends’ relatives… Depression is certainly understandable… Think of “again” as a positive, not a negative. Because if you weren’t beginning “again” then you wouldn’t be beginning at all, instead you would continue in your depression and with any resultant weight gain. “Again” is not something to be ashamed of, but something to be proud of. At least, that’s how I look at it.
LoriAnn – I’m happy to read that you lost what you gained!
ICUWishing – Now the 80 hour weeks are going until May?! Is this good or bad for the relationship (serious question, not sarcastic – I could see how the time apart could be welcome)? I hope everything (relationship, job, personal) finds a new happy status quo. I am so happy to hear that your son is loving his new school!
LambChop – Here’s hoping you rock your half marathon on Sunday!!!
CruiseCAT – I hope your renovation is going smoothly and that’s what is keeping you from here… I hope all’s well.
Here, I have come to peace with my situation and feel like I’ve done all the research and understand as much as I need to in order to make good choices. So, I’m feeling relieved and just ready to move on. I’ve found my new status quo. Now here’s something interesting. Yesterday was day 2 of not-so-good eating but you know what? I realized that if I continued going that way, I was just going to have to lose those pounds AGAIN, and it really isn’t worth it. So today, which could have been day 3 of not-so-good eating turned into day 1 of good eating. The turning it around isn’t so interesting to me, since I’ve done that so many times before. What was interesting was that I *knew* this would add pounds, I *knew* I would re-lose them and it would be hard, and I actually said “Why bother?!” Not why bother, let’s throw in the towel and enjoy some more BBQ potato chips. But why bother going through this cycle again; just be done. And so I was.
) and got to take off the evil collar Tootsie hated so much. It sounds just like the one you mentioned, Petra, and she seemed so relieved to have the other one off....she was trembling when I got home from being confined/collared for the day. She isn't wild about it , but it is 1000% better than the other one. She can almost reach to lick her wounds, but I am watching her carefully. It looks like a blow-up ring for the pool, so she looks like she is going for a swim.
I need to get a picture of her to post here.
