Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent

mietze

There is a pretty nasty virus still making the rounds than jumps into pneumonia quickly thar isn’t covid. Both hubby and I got very ill with it this summer and something similar is decimating the adults at my workplace. I hope you are able to make it in to your xray and they can do something to alleviate some of the suffering.

Cobalt

@mietze My current working theory is the hospital gave me pneumonia when they shot me full of benadryl to do ct scans. Because fun fact: I’m allergic to CT contrast. And further fun fact, when I take IV benadryl (required to keep me from having a reaction to the contrast) it hits me straight in the chest and makes me not able to breathe for about 30-seconds.

Faraday

@Cobalt said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:

it hits me straight in the chest and makes me not able to breathe for about 30-seconds.

And they’ve given it to you more than once despite having that reaction? Wow. I’ve administered Benadryl on the ambulance before and that is not a normal side effect. (But I’m also not a doctor, so maybe it was a lesser of two evils kind of situation.) It is possible to be allergic to Benadryl too (the irony).

Anyway, I hope they get your x-ray sorted out and you feel better.

mietze

well i feel even more like shit again because i have covid again.

Kestrel

I know this is not the place for politics but I’m just going to say it’s making me cry, and I guess more context isn’t needed than that.

SpaceKhomeini

@Kestrel said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:

I know this is not the place for politics but I’m just going to say it’s making me cry, and I guess more context isn’t needed than that.

The world’s a miserable, annoying place sometimes and quite frankly I’m at the point where I have to ask people “do we want another 40 years of this bullshit?”

I’m 45 years old and I’ve been witnessing the same crooks in charge and the same failed approaches to policy my entire adult life. At some point I have to step back and ask if people who support these failures really believe that this is going to be the year said bullshit works.

^ Apologies for the vague language but I tried to convey my frustration at people and things with a complete lack of specifics.

mietze

@Kestrel it’s devastating.

Cobalt

I’m still sick and I start my new job tomorrow. Yay~

junipersky

The person writing up our home study texted me once with a single additional question about my husband. She has emailed him three times asking additional questions about me.

I am feeling paranoid on top of the anxiety I already have about being good enough to be a foster parent.

I’m sure it is fine and she is trying to do her best to write the best narrative possible about us, and hubs was just sparse with details during the in person interview.

Nail bite

Cobalt

yells something about teenagers while pulling her hair in fistfuls

Cobalt

@Cobalt said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:

yells something about teenagers while pulling her hair in fistfuls

I really just want to scream at the top of my lungs, but I can’t. What kind of person sprays mace in a house full of people with asthma, covid lung damage, and COPD?

SockMonkey

@junipersky Just popping in after a long absence to check in on how you’re doing and offer support. Having been there, how you’re feeling is totally normal even if I know that won’t help lessen the anxiety.

Also, this won’t help lessen the anxiety either, but the fact you’re worrying is a sign you are definitely good enough to be a foster parent. What a friend told me that helped a lot was “The bad parents never stop to worry about if they’re doing a good job or not.” Best of luck and sending you all the positive vibes.

You got this!

SockMonkey

@Cobalt Ack! What the hell? I was hoping your recovery was going well, but that definitely doesn’t help!

junipersky

@SockMonkey

Thank you! We sign the paper on Friday to approve the home study!

SockMonkey

@junipersky AHHH! That’s so exciting! I know we don’t know each other, but if you want to reach out to vent/celebrate/ramble feel free. It is an exciting, exhausting but fantastic journey. I wish you all the best!

Cobalt

@SockMonkey said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:

@Cobalt Ack! What the hell? I was hoping your recovery was going well, but that definitely doesn’t help!

Teenagers are stupid.

Meanwhile, my father in law was already sick. He’s now been hospitalized because he has an infection they can’t find and his single kidney is not working at capacity because of dehydration.

And unless I’m granted an exemption by the HR department I’ll lose my job if I miss anymore work between now and the 20th.

SockMonkey

@Cobalt hugs

I’m so sorry. Sending you all the virtual hugs and support. I wish I could tell you to stick it to work, but I know and hate that it doesn’t work that way.

Cobalt

@SockMonkey also, today in training (for stuff I already know), we’re observing each other take calls… and the person taking calls right now has the most grating voice and is stumbling so bad but I am not allowed to give feedback. Only our mentor can.

….and I know more than the mentor.

grind teeth

junipersky

@Cobalt

I feeeeellllll this.

@SockMonkey
Thank you!

Cobalt

@junipersky I’m sitting here doing my best not to correct our mentor. But ugh. So hard.