Highlight of my wk: DH mopped floors!
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| Tue, 02-26-2008 - 7:29pm |
Ok, I'll share now....LOL!
I have been going through what I'm calling "a thing" lately. Not too unusual of things, that is, I've gone through this before, but this is now to a greater degree. Tell me this is normal, ok?
1- Weird sleep patterns. I wake up around 4 a.m. and can't go back to sleep. OR I sleep for 12-13 hours. No kidding...Saturday night I went to bed at 10, woke up at 4, read the paper, went back to bed about 6:30, and Frank woke me up at noon!
Thursday night I fell in bed at 8:30 p.m. and didn't wake up til 6:30.
Friday night I woke at 4 and couldn't go back to sleep/bed at all, then had trembling hands and anxiety all morning til I talked to Frank on the phone .
2- Extreme forgetfulness/absentmindedness...I can't remember names to save me. I couldn't even come up with Hunter's name the other night. It's like it's on the tip of my tongue, you know.
This morning I put something in my backpack I had to take to work, then spent 3-4 min. looking for it before remembering I put it in my backpack.
I catch myself staring around the office snapping my fingers trying to make myself retrieve what I was doing walking around or where I was going.
3 - My arthritis seems to be getting worse. Forget about opening jars! I smell like liniment all the time, too! I don't like this 50+ crap! I think part of this is, though, that I'm riding my bike more and the handles aggravate my thumbs at their base and my wrists.
4- I don't care about anything much that I used to. I think about doing certain things and then just say to myself, "eh. Don't feel like it."
Now, before you diagnose me with depression, I already have B-T-D-T-take-the-meds. AND I know there are ways to cognitively think myself through these times, but .... "eh."
One thing that really helped me on my shaky Saturday was asking Frank to mop the floors each week. Only having the weekend to deep clean, I really try to get it all done on Saturday, and that is one chore I not only hate to do, but leave it to the last. So sometimes I don't do it! Well, he is really good at it. I guess all I had to do is ask. Actually, after I got to thinking about it, he really doesn't do very much housework. But he is very good at creating it. Hmmm.
Well, that's about it for now. So-o-o-o...
. . . aren't you sorry you asked now, Mare??? LOL!
Good thing is...I'm going on vacation soon and am SO looking forward to it. Warm weather and baseball...my private nirvana. I looked at my work calendar the other day as I was updating my employees' sick and vacation hours, and I HAVE ONLY HAD 4 DAYS OF VACATION IN A YEAR! And NO sick days! Come to think of it, I didn't have any vacation the year before, either. Good grief...I think I'm due, don't you?
Okay, this is getting annoyingly long; sorry about that. Everyone take care.
Red


Hi Red
No not sorry I ask at all. You sound "normal" to me!! Ok well not exactly normal but maybe as normal as life gets in menopause.
I envy you sleeping that long sometimes. Seems 7 to 8 hours is all I get now days. I also have days when the hands work and days when they don't. Sometimes I can open any thing and then the next day I cannot. I get those days when it seems just to much trouble to do much but try to make myself keep busy.
I keep telling my Dh hey now you are retired and making messes all day long in this house too maybe it is time you do a bit of cleaning. He will run the sweeper for me and mop the floors but that is about it. He only does it when I ask. Which I should do more often I guess.
You are definately due for some vacation and so spring training baseball will probably do the trick. Just remember to bring the sunscreen!!
Love ya
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Ya know, Gabs? I think you're right. I have had good sleep without much wakefulness all week now and I feel much much better. I need to remember this!
Thanks, girlfriend!
Red
sounds normal to me! LOL
#1-GOT IT! ...I have taken to using Tylenol PM or Simply Sleep...to simply sleep!
#2..what was #2 again?...oh,yeah, forgetfulness!...I call it "sensory overload"..and write lots of notes to myself
#3...advil...hot showers.....massage therapy
#4..wow..I say that to myself A LOT...I thought it meant I finally gave my self permission not to be so....what's the word?....responsible?
nice of dh to do the floors...BOb does our vacuuming
our old vac died...so we bought a new one..he used it ONCE..it died!..took it back..they repaired it...first time he used it...we only had it back an hour..he vacuumed up a buckle from the high chair!..it wedged in the tube...I thought we were never going to get it free...we did
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