Overwhelmed right now

[Guest guest]

I have been trying to keep up with reading messages but have not said

anything for a while. For Christmas my doctors have given me a

kazillion tests. They really should have their spouses think up

gifts for their patients.

I have almost no cookies done and have to have a dozen each of about

6 types ready to deliver to the old folks on Christmas Eve. The have

no Christmas cookies if I do not have them done so the pressure is

on. My tree is up for the first time in about 3 years compliments of

someone else. It looks nice.

In addition to all of the testing and doctor trips, there have been

trips to Bethlehem for the old folks. He went in for a prostate

biopsy and had probelms with bleeding when they put him back on his

coumidin so he ended up there for 2 weeks. When he is in the

hospital, she has to be placed in a nursing facility as her dementia

does not able her to remain at home. In the end we found out that he

has cancer and begins radiation right after the holidays. Like I

said doctors really should not be left with their own choices of

presents for patients.

In addition to all of this my " darling " son-in-law had my daughter

served with divorce papers. I have said nothing to him about his

problems to this point but he just earned the mother-in-law tongue

lashing of the century for the damage to her and their sons for the

timing. He is going no fault and irreconciable differences. Don't

know how he knows the differences can't be fixed if he claims to not

even know what he is having a problem with and he is the one who just

walked out.

So here I am with cookies to back and gifts that need to be bought

yet. Luckily the grandsons all love the greenbacks best.

Funny thing is that I normally do not like all the hustle and bustle

of Christmas and normally if it is bad it will happen in December and

it is. The difference is that the doctor has me on meds to control

some of the pain so I really am just going day to day without being

really down about it. I know that so much has to be done but the

meds have me not feeling stressed either. Jean