There are no words…

…to describe what life has been like for a while now.

Insane, crazy….I don’t like those as they are a little too close to how I was feeling a few weeks ago.

Hectic…just really doesn’t cover it.

Wild…makes it sound like fun when it’s been anything but that.

A few weeks ago I felt like I was losing my mind. Crying jags every time I turned around. I felt like throwing up every time I looked at the computer and even thought about working. My house was a mess and I didn’t care. Just…lots of things/feelings going on with me. Major guilt trips over not having enough time to do everything that needed to be done AND to spend quality time with my kids on top of that. And they always come first with me…over anything.

Stress can be hard on ANYBODY…male or female. But it can really do mean things to a female body (something men never have to worry about). Major cramps anyone? Ugh.

So I decided to take some time off work and concentrate on figuring out what exactly my problem was and getting things settled around the house. And rest….I had LOTS of rest in mind.

Yeah, right.

A few days after I take time off…my little one comes down with tonsilitis. So that one is out of school for a few days and then the antibiotics kick in and cramp her up (along with other things), so she misses a week of school all together. We hit the weekend and by Sunday my oldest is running a fever and my youngest has a “rash” on her head, so Monday morning I have both in the doc’s office. Oldest has sinus infection and right ear is infected (haven’t had that in a LONG time). And my youngest has impetigo. Can you say fun? NOT!

So she misses half of that week as well since impetigo is highly contagious.

All the while my husband sounds like he’s trying to lose a lung with all of the coughing he’s been doing. I kept telling him to go to the doctor since he sounded worse than my 63 year old mother who has smoked over half her life. He insists he’s fine. Whatever.

So…after the impetigo week…both girls are getting better and…I feel like shit. And on top of that…I can’t sleep. I go to the doctor and what do you know? I had a bladder infection. Lovely. Which I guess the bladder infection is kinda a good thing since with the anxious feeling my doctor said if it had come back as no infection, he was putting me on nerve pills.

Take my meds, but I still had that “anxious” feeling (I thought from the bladder infection). I didn’t go back to the doctor (I’m sick of doctors already…ok? And I don’t want nerve pills), but I’m pretty sure now I’ve got a yeast infection from that medicine. Fun.

Mama stayed with us last weekend and helped me do my Fall Cleaning on the house. Friday night, hubby comes home from working and he’s sneezing, coughing and still trying to hack up a lung. So, with mama’s help, I talk him into going to the doctor. Which brings us to this week…

Monday morning, hubby goes to doctor — Bronchitis (duh!). But hmm…I don’t feel so great myself. Tuesday I go help mama clean her house and both of us have stuffy noses, sneezing, running a fever and just feel like shit in general.

DH is soooooooooo in trouble cuz not only am I sick this week (as well as my mama), I woke up this morning to a friggin’ fever blister. DAMMIT!

Not to mention my oldest had to go to the doctor on Wednesday since I wasn’t sure if she broke her finger or not at school. It was swollen and the knuckle has turned black. Luckily it’s not broken, just twisted up everything in there and possibly busted some blood vessels (why it’s black). So she’s got to wear a splint for the next week or so.

Yeah, life has been…something else.

Cindy - still not able to sleep at night