Wow...Tuesday again.

[merimask]

Well it's Tuesday!  I feel like I deserve a cookie for surviving Monday.

 

I don't know...Monday was just a very long and tedious day on so many levels.  Any day you start by passing out is not going to be a good day.  I really need to go to my doc and have something done about my unresolved monthly troubles, because I am so obviously still anemic and this ongoing problem has me really concerned.  I'm actually wondering if I should just get the hysterectomy & be done with it all.  *sigh*  Been holding out, but eh...it might just be time to bite the bullet.

Still, I had way too much stuff that needed doing & passing out was not an option, so after orange juice and a nice hot shower I was human enough to get busy and get things rolling.  Stuff I did:

*folded laundry
*mailed orders
*bought more colored tissue paper (I gift wrap every order with tissue paper...isn't that cute?)
*exchanged sad three-year-old phone for shiny new skinny phone at Sprint store (my old phone was 2 inches thick & had an external antenna...LOL)
*picked Char & friend up from school, took her shopping for sneakers
*Office Max for work supplies (going through shipping & mailing supplies like crazy)
*took Char & her friend home, fed them large amounts of orange juice & scrambled eggs, drove them to rugby practice
*Gas for car, wash car
*Greg picks Char up at practice, I feed everybody
*Watch Heroes

And yeah, that was enough.  I like my new phone, it's red and small and neat.  I used it to call my sister after Heroes...I need help with advertising.  Nancy says Facebook has a great deal & she said she'd help me set it all up.  It'll be an investment but I think it's a great idea.  I already spend almost $200 a month on Etsy showcases with limited results, so I think going outside of Etsy might be an interesting alternative.  So, we are doing that tomorrow & I'm pretty excited about it.

Twenty four hours have passed since I opened it and the ShopHandMade store is being less than stellar.  I'm not impressed.  I took a good look...it seemed to be well populated with talented artisans at first glance but actually they are all like me.  Their primary store is on Etsy & this place is an experiment; we all have just a few items in there.  Oh well...everything has its start somewhere so in time this might get better.  I'm not holding my breath though.  *grumpy*

Char has started her Rugby season.  For some odd reason she decided this was the sport she wanted to do, so I'm encouraging her.  I'm a little worried 'cause it seems like a rough sport.  She's pretty tough though; small & fast which is perfect for the "back" position.  Her first practice went really well & she was high on endorphins all night, which was adorable.  Her season is going to be brutal; two hours of practice every day with games almost every weekend.  This weekend there's no game, just a HUGE clinic I have to drive her to in Orchard Park...thousands of kids will be there.

I've never seen her this excited about a team sport before.  She had a few years of track (and she was quite good at it...very fast!  Ran a great anchor leg in the 4 X 200 relay that was simply amazing) but she hated the pressure.  This seems like something she really wants to do though, so I'm all for it.  Just hoping she doesn't get her nose broken or anything drastic...  o_O"

I have things I ought to be making but I am so tired.  As Scarlett O'Hara says; "Fiddle dee dee.  Tomorrow is another day." 

 

Comments

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

LOL as soon as you said 'drove to rugby' I thought...Charlotte? Rugby? But she's tiny and girly, isn't she? I was sure you hadn't mentioned her being in rugby before because I would have remembered something like that for sure.

I have six aunts on my dad's side, oldest to youngest: Linda, Ruth, Donna, Nancy, Arlene and Connie. Linda, Ruth and Donna have ALL had hysterectomies, now...and I'm kind of expecting my other aunts will end up having them as well between the age of 45 and 50 (that's when the other three had them). Seems like that side of the family just can't keep their bits or risk death (all the hysterectomies were for REALLY serious reasons, like...they had no other option if they wanted to live, kind of a thing...or close.) They all seem perfectly fine about it, but I never asked. (My family is soooo not a close one, outside the immediate members...my parents and siblings and me.)

I'd check out what effects it can have and weigh those (only 'possible' not 'definite') effects against what's going on now. Though really, how much worse could it get? And if it got worse even after your procedure (this MUCH worse) which was an ablation, right? Anyway, if it did that, it seems inevitable that you won't be able to wait until menopause. Menopause is probably ten years away. So that's another factor. (I wish I hadn't been born with reproductive bits at all. I want to be a girl...I just hate my ovaries and so on. They're so useless and encumbersome! I have no interest in having children and I've always had bad cramps AND my family has severe bleeding problems on both sides so I'll probably develop them eventually, too.)

This site seems very anti-hysterectomy but gives some interesting information: http://www.safemenopausesolutions.com/hysterectomysideeffects.html Of course, they WOULD quote anything bad, because they're trying to sell supplements that you wouldn't need if you had one. But certainly the side effects are true, though I'm not sure about their stats. The womenshealth site is less 'basically only an idiot would have a hysterectomy unless they had cancer' about things, but they look at both sides as well. I followed several other womensheath links to this page so there's a LOT more info within that site than just what is on that page: http://womenshealth.about.com/od/hysterectomy/a/hystalternative.htm

Of course, you've likely looked up lots of info already. But just in case. :)

Sounds like you shopped and drove around all day. I don't mind that if it's in the country but otherwise? Bleck. Driving makes me tense in large towns/cities.

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Yep, the rugby is a new thing. She started talking about it a month ago & intends to be really serious about it, so I am supporting this new ambition of hers. Actually, studies show that kids involved in a school sports program do better in their classes & are healthier in general than kids who don't so I think it'll be a good thing (if she sticks with it).

Oh man...the hysterectomy thing scares the heck out of me. I've read all the literature I can get my hands on & it seems like a really BAD idea. The ablation only helped to a small degree though because I still have enough problems to cause me to be anemic & pass out. Doc wants me to try a second ablation before anything else but I'm chicken 'cause it hurt SO much. Something has to give though, because I spend three days or so completely unable to do anything & then half a month recovering from that. Every month. It's a bit much. :-/