Re: Venting - feeling miserable

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Ah 'tis tough!! Enough for most to be upset!

I agree that the folks who continue on with symptoms that look totally debilitating are both amazing to me, and also of course thereby unable/unwilling to understand how allconsuming the symptoms can be to us who have the illnesses perhaps more deeply -- and NOT just from weaknes of our will!

Plus I think it is wisest for folks who have something that is 'catching' NOT to take the chance that some of us who barely get to any functions will add it to our long list!!!

Sure hope your new friend is wise enough to realize that you are NOT staying home because you wanted to! If you have that kind of cough, it may be more obvious than you think! Even though the cough isn't the only problem.

Asthma must be SO scary. I have several friends who have it.

Hope too that this coming year, after a birthday that became more a hunkering down day, will be one of healings.

and, ah yes, some guys often don't do much 'wrapping', I guess figuring the fact that they got SOMEthing should be enough!! (In fact, when I am REALLY tired, I've been known to not do much better..)

I've been thinking of my deceased parents more lately too. That's one of the problems of growing older, the number of folks we lose.. sigh.... I miss them.

I also agree that it's tough not quite knowing how one day can be so very different from the next, and not be able to count on things being 'sensible' thereby. I unfortunately have gone too far the other way, of NOT looking forward to going out, assuming that the cost will be too great. That's not good, even though I have the excuse of 'statistics' of fifty-one years...

ANYway, now that you've said you DON'T like this being unwell, and DON'T like missing what you want to do, hope you will wake up in the a.m. feeling much better (+/or getting ready to get better with help from your docs) and looking forward to the next exciting possibilities!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY anyway!!

Jean

Venting - feeling miserable

Hi. Today is my birthday and frankly it stinks. With it being Palm Sunday, I wanted to get to church but I woke up to Asthma problems. Also, the service today was going to be the program with the Sunday School kids. I have bad sinusitis/bronchitis I need to ditch. Been through ZPac and Amoxicilln. If not better my allergist/immunologist will probably put my butt in the hospital. I think he was tempted last time but because nothing serious showed in the CAT scan an chest Xray he went with the amox and prednisone first. It is such a bitch having no resistance and with the nasty "Croupy cough" running through town I thought, hard as it is it was best for me to take care of my health and not reexpose myself. It stinks though because I had been invited by a friend and I know he must think I am ditching him. I'm not but it seems so hard when chronic to convince people that what is a little cold and minor annoyance is a major issue for us. I don;t want to go to the hospital for it or develop walking pneumonia.

I also now wont be able to go to a piano concert I had wanted to. Anyone else ever get down and depressed because their condition wont let them do what you want? I felt great yesterday and was all excited about going. I hate this feeling good one day and lousy the next. I might be a chicken but I know some people will show up with the "Croupy cough" UGH the martyrs who show up sick at church and everywhere so people can see how much the sacrifice for everything. It stinks. My parents are both dead, my Dad died two years ago in January. I am missing them. I helped take care of each before they died of cancer. My brother just hands me my girft, doesnt even bother to wrap it. I am only 42 but have had to give up a job I love and with health problems can't work and yet have an aunt that doesnt get why. She thinks asthma and allergies and my mental illness are no big deal. I should suck it up. I have worked every day since I was 13 until last March, either pay or volunteer. I still tried doing Sunday school until my allergist/immunologist said enough of that unless I wanted to be a permanent fixture in his office with asthma flares. With all this stuff we can't even do a methacolate challenge to judge how to best treat the asthma because my lung capacity is not good enough. All he can give me now is Asthmanex and a rescue inhaler. I had to give up two ferrets that I loved because of my allergies and asthma.

Sorry for venting. I try to keep a postive mental attitude but today, well I am positive being sick stinks. Thanks for letting me vent. Huffy

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HI SARA HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY I HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER VERY VERY SOONTAKE CARE GOD BLESS ANNASara Highum

<huffyndk@...> wrote: Hi. Today is my birthday and frankly it stinks. With it being Palm Sunday, I wanted to get to church but I woke up to Asthma problems. Also, the service today was going to be the program with the Sunday School kids. I have bad sinusitis/bronchitis I need to ditch. Been through ZPac and Amoxicilln. If not better my allergist/immunologist will probably put my butt in the hospital. I think he was tempted last time but because nothing serious showed in the CAT scan an chest Xray he went with the amox and prednisone

first. It is such a bitch having no resistance and with the nasty "Croupy cough" running through town I thought, hard as it is it was best for me to take care of my health and not reexpose myself. It stinks though because I had been invited by a friend and I know he must think I am ditching him. I'm not but it seems so hard when chronic to convince people that what is a little cold and minor annoyance is a major issue for us. I don;t want to go to the hospital for it or develop walking pneumonia. I also now wont be able to go to a piano concert I had wanted to. Anyone else ever get down and depressed because their condition wont let them do what you want? I felt great yesterday and was all excited about going. I hate this feeling good one day and lousy the next. I might be a chicken but I know some people will show up with the "Croupy cough" UGH the martyrs who show up sick at church and everywhere so people can see how much the sacrifice for

everything. It stinks. My parents are both dead, my Dad died two years ago in January. I am missing them. I helped take care of each before they died of cancer. My brother just hands me my girft, doesnt even bother to wrap it. I am only 42 but have had to give up a job I love and with health problems can't work and yet have an aunt that doesnt get why. She thinks asthma and allergies and my mental illness are no big deal. I should suck it up. I have worked every day since I was 13 until last March, either pay or volunteer. I still tried doing Sunday school until my allergist/immunologist said enough of that unless I wanted to be a permanent fixture in his office with asthma flares. With all this stuff we can't even do a methacolate challenge to judge how to best treat the asthma because my lung capacity is not good enough. All he can give me now is Asthmanex and a rescue inhaler. I had to give up two ferrets that I loved because of my allergies and asthma. Sorry for venting. I try to keep a postive mental attitude but today, well I am positive being sick stinks. Thanks for letting me vent. Huffy

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i think it is okay to vent. that is what we are all here for. my depression gets really bad at times and i keep it to myself because i feel like no one really understands what i am going thru. i have some kind of colitis or something that at times i can't leave the house for fear of not being able to get to a bathroom quick enough. not to mention my sons health issues. i guess what i am saying is that we are all here for eachother because we all have something going on that brought us here. so if you need to vent go ahead, that is what we are here for. evelynSara Highum <huffyndk@...> wrote: Hi. Today is my birthday and frankly it stinks. With it being Palm Sunday, I wanted to get to church but I woke up to Asthma problems. Also, the service today was going to be the program with the Sunday School kids. I have bad sinusitis/bronchitis I need to ditch. Been through ZPac and Amoxicilln. If not better my allergist/immunologist will probably put my butt in the hospital. I think he was tempted last time but because nothing serious showed in the CAT scan an chest Xray he went with the amox and prednisone first. It is such a bitch having no resistance and with the nasty "Croupy cough" running through town I thought, hard as it is it was best for me to take care of my health and not reexpose myself. It stinks though because I had been invited by a friend and I know he must think I am ditching him. I'm not but it seems so hard

when chronic to convince people that what is a little cold and minor annoyance is a major issue for us. I don;t want to go to the hospital for it or develop walking pneumonia. I also now wont be able to go to a piano concert I had wanted to. Anyone else ever get down and depressed because their condition wont let them do what you want? I felt great yesterday and was all excited about going. I hate this feeling good one day and lousy the next. I might be a chicken but I know some people will show up with the "Croupy cough" UGH the martyrs who show up sick at church and everywhere so people can see how much the sacrifice for everything. It stinks. My parents are both dead, my Dad died two years ago in January. I am missing them. I helped take care of each before they died of cancer. My brother just hands me my girft, doesnt even bother to wrap it. I am only 42 but have had to give up a job I love and with health problems can't work and yet

have an aunt that doesnt get why. She thinks asthma and allergies and my mental illness are no big deal. I should suck it up. I have worked every day since I was 13 until last March, either pay or volunteer. I still tried doing Sunday school until my allergist/immunologist said enough of that unless I wanted to be a permanent fixture in his office with asthma flares. With all this stuff we can't even do a methacolate challenge to judge how to best treat the asthma because my lung capacity is not good enough. All he can give me now is Asthmanex and a rescue inhaler. I had to give up two ferrets that I loved because of my allergies and asthma. Sorry for venting. I try to keep a postive mental attitude but today, well I am positive being sick stinks. Thanks for letting me vent. Huffy cure cystic fibrosis

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Venting is important, even necessary at times. I know I recently vented big time to my baby sister. I also know stress is making your condition worse and from you vent, I know you are stressed. Please try to discover the root of all your stress. Make lists of things that make you feel bad and things that make you feel good and work on decreasing the bad and increasing the time you spend on activities and people that make you feel good. I know one is you feel guilty about being so ill. Stop that right now, many of us on this list are now unable to work and aren't liking it much. But not working is often what is needed to give us the time to try to do what is needed to take care of what is left of and improve our health. That is finally the realization that I came to and am now devoting myself to improving my diet and I recently started very very mild stretching to try and regain some of my lost flexibility. I had reached the point where going anywhere was a huge challenge. Now its not so bad....

Venting - feeling miserable

Hi. Today is my birthday and frankly it stinks. With it being Palm Sunday, I wanted to get to church but I woke up to Asthma problems. Also, the service today was going to be the program with the Sunday School kids. I have bad sinusitis/bronchitis I need to ditch. Been through ZPac and Amoxicilln. If not better my allergist/immunologist will probably put my butt in the hospital. I think he was tempted last time but because nothing serious showed in the CAT scan an chest Xray he went with the amox and prednisone first. It is such a bitch having no resistance and with the nasty "Croupy cough" running through town I thought, hard as it is it was best for me to take care of my health and not reexpose myself. It stinks though because I had been invited by a friend and I know he must think I am ditching him. I'm not but it seems so hard when chronic to convince people that what is a little cold and minor annoyance is a major issue for us. I don;t want to go to the hospital for it or develop walking pneumonia.

I also now wont be able to go to a piano concert I had wanted to. Anyone else ever get down and depressed because their condition wont let them do what you want? I felt great yesterday and was all excited about going. I hate this feeling good one day and lousy the next. I might be a chicken but I know some people will show up with the "Croupy cough" UGH the martyrs who show up sick at church and everywhere so people can see how much the sacrifice for everything. It stinks. My parents are both dead, my Dad died two years ago in January. I am missing them. I helped take care of each before they died of cancer. My brother just hands me my girft, doesnt even bother to wrap it. I am only 42 but have had to give up a job I love and with health problems can't work and yet have an aunt that doesnt get why. She thinks asthma and allergies and my mental illness are no big deal. I should suck it up. I have worked every day since I was 13 until last March, either pay or volunteer. I still tried doing Sunday school until my allergist/immunologist said enough of that unless I wanted to be a permanent fixture in his office with asthma flares. With all this stuff we can't even do a methacolate challenge to judge how to best treat the asthma because my lung capacity is not good enough. All he can give me now is Asthmanex and a rescue inhaler. I had to give up two ferrets that I loved because of my allergies and asthma.

Sorry for venting. I try to keep a postive mental attitude but today, well I am positive being sick stinks. Thanks for letting me vent. Huffy

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I HOPE THAT YOU HAD A NICE BIRTHDAY;;SARA; & THAT YOU ARE FEELING BETTER HUGS DORTSara Highum <huffyndk@...> wrote: Hi. Today is my birthday and frankly it stinks. With it being Palm Sunday, I wanted to get to church but I woke up to Asthma problems. Also, the service today was going to be the program with the Sunday School kids. I have bad sinusitis/bronchitis I need to ditch. Been through ZPac and Amoxicilln. If not better my allergist/immunologist will probably put my butt in

the hospital. I think he was tempted last time but because nothing serious showed in the CAT scan an chest Xray he went with the amox and prednisone first. It is such a bitch having no resistance and with the nasty "Croupy cough" running through town I thought, hard as it is it was best for me to take care of my health and not reexpose myself. It stinks though because I had been invited by a friend and I know he must think I am ditching him. I'm not but it seems so hard when chronic to convince people that what is a little cold and minor annoyance is a major issue for us. I don;t want to go to the hospital for it or develop walking pneumonia. I also now wont be able to go to a piano concert I had wanted to. Anyone else ever get down and depressed because their condition wont let them do what you want? I felt great yesterday and was all excited about going. I hate this feeling good one day and lousy the next. I might be a chicken but I know

some people will show up with the "Croupy cough" UGH the martyrs who show up sick at church and everywhere so people can see how much the sacrifice for everything. It stinks. My parents are both dead, my Dad died two years ago in January. I am missing them. I helped take care of each before they died of cancer. My brother just hands me my girft, doesnt even bother to wrap it. I am only 42 but have had to give up a job I love and with health problems can't work and yet have an aunt that doesnt get why. She thinks asthma and allergies and my mental illness are no big deal. I should suck it up. I have worked every day since I was 13 until last March, either pay or volunteer. I still tried doing Sunday school until my allergist/immunologist said enough of that unless I wanted to be a permanent fixture in his office with asthma flares. With all this stuff we can't even do a methacolate challenge to judge how to best treat the asthma because my lung capacity is not good

enough. All he can give me now is Asthmanex and a rescue inhaler. I had to give up two ferrets that I loved because of my allergies and asthma. Sorry for venting. I try to keep a postive mental attitude but today, well I am positive being sick stinks. Thanks for letting me vent. Huffy

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THANK YOU ALL FOR THE SUPPORT and well wishes. I am feeling better now. Felt good just to vent. Sometimes people who aren't sick don't really understand. I am keeping with my Doctors. I don't like to but I know I won't get better without. Thank you to the repondent who offered another way to be thinking about being out of work. That really helped to see a different spin on it. Our soceity gets us so much to view our worth by what we do not who we are. I like the suggestion for handling stress. Thank you, that is a tip I want to try. Thank you for being their for me.

Huffy

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Sara Highum <huffyndk@...> wrote:

Hi. Today is my birthday and frankly it stinks. With it being Palm Sunday, I wanted to get to church but I woke up to Asthma problems. Also, the service today was going to be the program with the Sunday School kids. I have bad sinusitis/bronchitis I need to ditch. Been through ZPac and Amoxicilln. If not better my allergist/immunologist will probably put my butt in the hospital. I think he was tempted last time but because nothing serious showed in the CAT scan an chest Xray he went with the amox and prednisone first. It is such a bitch having no resistance and with the nasty " Croupy cough " running through town I thought, hard as it is it was best for me to take care of my health and not reexpose myself. It stinks though because I had been invited by a friend and I know he must think I am ditching him. I'm not but it seems so hard when chronic to convince people that what is a little cold and minor annoyance is a major issue for us. I don;t want to go to the hospital for it or develop walking pneumonia.

I also now wont be able to go to a piano concert I had wanted to. Anyone else ever get down and depressed because their condition wont let them do what you want? I felt great yesterday and was all excited about going. I hate this feeling good one day and lousy the next. I might be a chicken but I know some people will show up with the " Croupy cough " UGH the martyrs who show up sick at church and everywhere so people can see how much the sacrifice for everything. It stinks. My parents are both dead, my Dad died two years ago in January. I am missing them. I helped take care of each before they died of cancer. My brother just hands me my girft, doesnt even bother to wrap it. I am only 42 but have had to give up a job I love and with health problems can't work and yet have an aunt that doesnt get why. She thinks asthma and allergies and my mental illness are no big deal. I should suck it up. I have worked every day since I was 13 until last March, either pay or volunteer. I still tried doing Sunday school until my allergist/immunologist said enough of that unless I wanted to be a permanent fixture in his office with asthma flares. With all this stuff we can't even do a methacolate challenge to judge how to best treat the asthma because my lung capacity is not good enough. All he can give me now is Asthmanex and a rescue inhaler. I had to give up two ferrets that I loved because of my allergies and asthma.

Sorry for venting. I try to keep a postive mental attitude but today, well I am positive being sick stinks. Thanks for letting me vent. Huffy