Re: Anxiety

((((((((((((((((((Kelly)))))))))))))))) somtimes we just have to let loose
with it all. I've found (more ttimes than I care to mention!) that letting
it all implode for a while is a most effective way of making it possible to
deal for the rest of the week. Just one thought though - might there be a
support group in your area either for people with chronic illness in general
or with one of your illnesses? That might be an affordable way to get a
local place to release some of the anxiety. Otherwise, call your quilting
friends and get them to come over and give you the big hugs we have to send
through the computer!

And you certainly aren't strange for having these fears. You've busted wide
open the parameters for side effects of our meds and you and Donna have this
insane competition going on to see who can deal with the most problems in one
year. (stop it NOW, both of you!)

Hell, my problems are so much milder than yours, but I've been getting major
setbacks every time I *start* to get into a rhythm again with exercise - and
usually very painful setbacks. It's reached the point that I can't get myself
to try again because I fear the return of the pains (more about all this
elsewhere). If I can fear side effects so relatively minor and doing
something as healthy as exercising, you can certainly have anxieties about
rituxan! LOL

I had a total meltdown last Monday when Mike asked me to do something for him
while he was out of town that week. (It was something he *should* have
realized needed dealing with earlier than 2 hours before leaving on the
trip!) I was a real mess for a couple of hours and cried as much as my costo
would allow, then ended up sleeping most of the afternoon on the couch. This
weekend, I've been caring for a husband with some intestinal crud - no more
details than that, but I had to wash EVERYthing on the bed yesterday.
Sometimes we just have to melt down so we can then do what has to be done
down tthe road.............

--
Nann
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Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare

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