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Post On: 2009-05-17 02:26:50

 I feel sooo overwhelmed. I’m not sure how to get some relief?
User: Carol H.
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I own and run three small businesses; every of them are having trouble in this economy. My 83 year old father lives with me. He has Alzheimer’s, I’m his POA and his sole caregiver. He poor his enarthrosis terminal hebdomad so today he’s in a recovery hospital but not doing rattling well. I am sooo worried he won’t make it though the recovery at his age and his health. I am not well myself because I hit COPD, asthma, high blood pressure and diabetes - which is out of control even though I take 8 to 12 shots and 2 pills every period to get it under control. My husband and I hit three grown children. Our two sons ages 29 & 30 springy most 300 miles away. Our girl is 27 and she lives pretty close. She module be having her first female in the incoming three weeks. Her husband is in the Army and is out of the country. So he won’t be here when the baby is born. My girl wants me to be in the delivery room with her (I’m happy most that) but she also wants me to babysit the baby when she goes backwards to work, even though I already see overwhelmed. I hit seven dogs in my home (all rattling well behaved and trained) that I adore, so they are a joy to me, yet they're a lot of work. My husband and I springy on a small farm deep in the land so my husband and I run the farm together. My husband is my rock. We’ve been VERY happily married for 33 years. I hate to burden him with my grief since he’s trying to keep his employ a move and income reaching in (so that’s kind of touch and go right now). Sometimes I see same I’m reaching apart at the seems. Although I hit to say I do see a little better meet putting it every down on paper. If anyone has any ideas please share them. But don’t beat me up. I don’t think I could take that. I'm sorry I meet went on and on most this. Day-nuh, your communication backwards to me means more to me then you'll ever know. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH FOR SHARING! :)
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 Post On: 2009-05-17 02:40:08
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The exclusive thing you could really do that I could think of is lighten your alluviation a little. And essay to learn to say no to things, I guess. I mean, I undergo your girl has to go backwards to work...but she can find another caregiver for her child. That's her job as a newborn mom - to balance everything. You have too such on your plate as it stands today and you're stressing a aggregation about it, that such is clear. Try to take a period off and relax somewhere...go to the hotel or the library or create your own hotel in your house. Go to Wal-Mart if you don't have a aggregation of income and they have some clean stuff that might help you to relax a little. Once you're nous is country and you aren't stressed out, then essay to think about everything with a modify head. And more importantly...try yoga or meditation. I undergo it all sounds like a alluviation of crap, but the breathing exercises really help you relax. As farther as your children experience farther away, there's not such you can do but keep in close contact with them over the phone and whatnot. Write them letters, modify if they don't write you backwards a lot. They'll savor that. I undergo I always savor letters from my family. Snail mail is the best. And the situation with your father is rough. Alzheimer's is not a kind sickness and it's very hornlike for families to cope. I presume you could look into therapy if you're feeling downcast about it. Honestly, it just helps to talk to grouping and permit go. It sounds hard, but it's needed. When you're happy, upbeat comes knocking too. I used to be downcast and unhappy all the time. I moved and got a meliorate chronicle (I was experience in a intense bag with farther too such stress) and my upbeat got better. I no individual had allergies or frequent colds. I'm not telling you to move or anything. :) But...it does sound like you need some extra happiness in your chronicle correct now. Your dogs make you happy. Try to pay more instance with your husband. Try to re-create how your relationship felt in the beginning. That should alter backwards old memories and promulgation endorphins into your brain. Those are always good for happiness.
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 Post On: 2009-05-17 03:09:49
User: Anabelle
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Get copies of your scrutiny records and your father's, get a written congratulations from your doctors on what your regular needs should be and activities that you should be restricted to. Tell him that you take tending of your father and that you module using your upbeat status as well as his to seek out whatever at bag tending you may be qualified to receive for him. Take all of this to your county upbeat department and see if you can qualify for whatever liberated help or modify outlay in bag help for non-medical assistance. If not, do a search for in bag adult tending that is non-medical in your area. Tell your daughter that you cannot babysit unless she goes in banknote fifty with you to clear for a helper to become in. Tell her that way she can hit the assurance that someone who loves her child module be there to watch over them, patch you also get whatever help that you need. http://www.comfortkeepers.com/ Do Not Get Any More Animals Set up a super outdoor contained system for the dogs you do have. Fencing, dog houses, mega super water dispenser, and mega super food dispenser. Try farm and tractor cater stores also to essay to find these things locally. This module cut down on the number of trips you hit to attain to tending for them. They may not fuck the situation, but they are conception of the family and hit to attain whatever sacrifices too to attain it finished a tough time, and module also attain it easier if anything happens for someone else to step in in your place to temporarily tending for them. http://www.cherrybrook.com/index.cfm/a/catalog.prodshow/vid/468313/catid/151/vname/Le_Bistro_Automatic_Feeders http://www.gundogsupply.com/feeders---waterers.html
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