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

[zannachan.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry that you are still having problems--that really sucks. I don't really have any advice, though I can say that both my mom and my mom-in-law had hysterectomies (and in fact had some kind of "uber-hysterectomy" where they take out pretty much everything) and both of them came through just fine.

My mom-in-law had hers removed because of uterine cancer (she had both uterine and breast cancer, but now she's cancer-free and doing great) but she had already gone through menopause so it didn't really effect her one way or another that way. My mom had hers removed when she was pretty young--mid 30's--for medical reasons. Fortunately, mom and dad had already decided that they had already had all their kids, and I think she was put on some kind of hormonal supplement because instant menopause when you're about 35 isn't good for a woman. But her surgery also went well and she hasn't had any long term complications from it.

But I can say that I would definitely talk to your doctor about your fears and concerns, specifically 1) that you aren't sure that it is worth going through the ablation again given that it didn't help much in the first place and 2) that "try" isn't particularly reassuring when it was such a terrible experience the first time around.

Regarding cell phones.... I have a love/hate relationship with them. I love having the option to, for example, call a friend's house when I'm lost trying to find their new home or to let my parents know that I'm stuck in traffic and so am going to be really late but not to worry, I'm okay just stuck in a traffic jam. It is comforting to know that in case of an emergency, people can get a hold of me no matter where I am. I don't like being available to be called 24/7, however, and sometimes turn the ringer off so that I can periodically check and see if anyone called that I would likely need to respond to quickly, but otherwise not be disturbed.

We have had to replace our phones about every 2 years because they stopped working, but I don't really care about all the fancy gadgets. We always get inexpensive phones--all we need are the basics. My phone this time is a little more advanced because I wanted the option of using a blue tooth mike/receiver with so that I can talk hands free; DB's however is the bare bones because he uses it for work and he often goes places where he can't have a camera. It's annoyingly difficult to find a phone without a camera these days--I have really nice digital camera; I don't need or particularly want one in my phone.

[merimask.livejournal.com]

The more I read about hysterectomy, the more I think I did the right thing by avoiding it. For me, it's such a drastic answer to this problem.

Excercising more regularly will help. The iron pills that I had last time...I need those again (the OTC ones I'm taking now make me kind of sick). I might even try the ablation one more time 'cause things did improve by about 25% & that's something. All these decisions...the only thing I know for sure is that I don't want any kind of surgery with my favorite season heading my way. ^_^ If I still have problems next November, I'll think about surgery then. *is procrastinating*

I'm just not crazy about cell phones. To me, it's just a phone. To a kid, it's a status symbol. Char had to have a sleek black katana phone over the summer...HAD to. She's crazy about it.

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

I don't even own a cell phone. Never have, almost certainly never will. I never even use my LAND line so why do I need to get a portable line?

[zannachan.livejournal.com]

Would it help to have something that made it easier to exercise inside, in your home? Something like the Wii Fit or even some exercise equipment, like a stationary bike or treadmill?

I would avoid doing the hysterectomy right before the summer, if you do decide to go that route, because you'll want to take time to recover afterward and you're so active during the summer.

Try a different brand of OTC iron pills? I have to be careful which brand of vitamins I buy, because some make me sick. Unfortunately, the generic ones that are cheap are among the offenders; I can take Centrium but they are awfully expensive. However, because of DB's wacky diet constraints I really need to take a multi-vitamin to stay healthy, so I get them anyway.

We got cell phones for purely practical reasons. DB needs his for work because he has to be reached by coworkers and clients during the day, and he's often out at job sites where there are no phones handy. And we both spend so much time on the road, between my school needs, his work, and our social/SCA life--that it's a good thing to have. Just in case--it does a lot for our peace of mind, and it is convenient. But I doubt that anyone would find my phone a status symbol--I have no web, no email updates, just the music and games that came on it and I've disabled texting because I found it annoying. DB's is even more basic because he didn't want the headset option and had to have one without a camera. Which was annoyingly hard to find.