Nothing terrible, just wiped
Posted: 2016-01-29 13:55:31
Sorry, but here to offload.
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My mother is still healing from her cracked hip just before Christmas. She's worried she may need a wheelchair permanently, and stressed from the paperwork hassles just to get one temporarily. And she's also concerned about a cat who is sneezing blood. My father is caregiver for both of them.
My wife is strung out over work -- an outfit which I swear uses "Dilbert" as a how-to guide -- and whether she should switch careers or industries, and how that works out with ongoing efforts to get pregnant at 43. IVF is a painful and expensive possibility, and a donor egg would be cheaper and easier but someone else's genes. Her recent late period was not pregnancy but the effect of one of the hormone medications the docs had her on. And she is also concerned about an ailing cat, a runty neurotic who has been vomiting frequently.
I'm turning 50 on Monday. I've found a couple of convenient, comfortable and reliable 1-pieces that are taking stress off my skin, but a "new" pressure sore -- which may have been brewing for weeks or months -- just presented itself a week ago, and I'm hoping the thing resolves in another few weeks. And for obvious reasons, I can't really talk to my wife or my parents about my stresses, direct or second-hand. In many ways, my life is good: professional recognition is coming in, and my health is better than it's been in a lot of ways (except for that minor skin thing). But the mismatch between where I wanted to be and where I am is nibbling at me.
OK, done now. Thanks.
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My mother is still healing from her cracked hip just before Christmas. She's worried she may need a wheelchair permanently, and stressed from the paperwork hassles just to get one temporarily. And she's also concerned about a cat who is sneezing blood. My father is caregiver for both of them.
My wife is strung out over work -- an outfit which I swear uses "Dilbert" as a how-to guide -- and whether she should switch careers or industries, and how that works out with ongoing efforts to get pregnant at 43. IVF is a painful and expensive possibility, and a donor egg would be cheaper and easier but someone else's genes. Her recent late period was not pregnancy but the effect of one of the hormone medications the docs had her on. And she is also concerned about an ailing cat, a runty neurotic who has been vomiting frequently.
I'm turning 50 on Monday. I've found a couple of convenient, comfortable and reliable 1-pieces that are taking stress off my skin, but a "new" pressure sore -- which may have been brewing for weeks or months -- just presented itself a week ago, and I'm hoping the thing resolves in another few weeks. And for obvious reasons, I can't really talk to my wife or my parents about my stresses, direct or second-hand. In many ways, my life is good: professional recognition is coming in, and my health is better than it's been in a lot of ways (except for that minor skin thing). But the mismatch between where I wanted to be and where I am is nibbling at me.
OK, done now. Thanks.