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RMDC wrote:Youngest daughter has persistent cough. I have serious bronchitis. Spouse has moderate pneumonia. I'm supposed to be at a chem lab tomorrow.

Hope you all feel better soon. I can sort of feel your pain, my daughter also has persistent cough and we're both just getting over chest infections.

stitchingmama wrote:It's hard to be a parent when you're sick, you can't just take a "sick day".

Too true!

Ugh RMDC! Hope you all start feeling better! Being sick when it's just one person is bad enough, but 3 of you... BLARG!

<sending huge pot of virtual chicken soup!>

Didn't know we had a skull 'n' crossbones emoticon! I hope your family and yourself feel better soon RMDC
My gripe isn't really a gripe in the great scheme of things given what everyone else is dealing with, but two of my three dogs insist on spending the night with me. If I don't let them in they scratch at my door all night and when they come in, they lie across my bed right in the middle meaning I sleep (or at least attempt to) in the fetal position until one of them decides to move, then they wake up at 5am insisting to be let out which I can't (a whole other story there!) so it's been... annoying!

Hey all, been lurking for awhile, wishing I had time for stitching! But for now FFXIV has taken over. I gotta say how annoying female players can be on like chat. I don't know why they giggle at EVERYTHING!!! Or remind everybody that they're a GIRL oooooh, like other players have never seen one! I'm a female and I'm there to play and do what I gotta do, not to sit there and giggle at everything funny or not! My fiancee is on a chat now with such a person and it's very annoying.... why do they do that!!?!?!? I hope some of you get equally annoyed by that, I also don't mean to offend anyone

stitchingmama wrote:It's hard to be a parent when you're sick, you can't just take a "sick day".

Well, in awesome news, my spouse's parents drove for hours to come take care of us over the long weekend, so that's given us a lot of relief.

Thanks for the well-wishes, everyone. I'm holding steady, but my spouse went in for a follow-up exam today, and the doctor discovered she has a secondary infection: double pneumonia, because my spouse is too bad*** to be laid low by just one major respiratory illness at a time. Luckily she can stay at home while she takes her treatment course.

Ally wrote:My gripe isn't really a gripe in the great scheme of things given what everyone else is dealing with, but two of my three dogs insist on spending the night with me. If I don't let them in they scratch at my door all night and when they come in, they lie across my bed right in the middle meaning I sleep (or at least attempt to) in the fetal position until one of them decides to move, then they wake up at 5am insisting to be let out which I can't (a whole other story there!) so it's been... annoying!

I know exactly what you mean! It's bad enough with our three cats; they can be shoved to the edge, and they're indoor-only. Three dogs must be a back-breaking, sleep-depriving nightmare. My advice: tasers.

Ally wrote:My gripe isn't really a gripe in the great scheme of things given what everyone else is dealing with, but two of my three dogs insist on spending the night with me. If I don't let them in they scratch at my door all night and when they come in, they lie across my bed right in the middle meaning I sleep (or at least attempt to) in the fetal position until one of them decides to move, then they wake up at 5am insisting to be let out which I can't (a whole other story there!) so it's been... annoying!

One of my best friends had the same issue with her cat. I know cats don't take nearly the amount of room on a bed that dogs do, but her husband has a slight allergy to cats and can't sleep with them in the room. So they closed their door and put a vacuum cleaner right outside the door with the switch in the "on" position. They ran the cord under the door and put it right by the bed because they have an outlet by the bed. When the cats would scratch, they would plug the vacuum in for just a second; the vacuum would turn on since it was switched on already. That trained the cats to associate scratching at the door with a big really scary noise and they stopped!

I dunno if that will help, but that's my best suggestion!

Tasers hmm? Might have to look into that
An interesting approach to take FiberWalkWithMe! However my dogs are very curious beagles and worked out long ago that the vacuum cleaner is no threat! Might work if I can think of another way to threaten them, though!

Okay, so my vent pales in comparison to some of the other things mentioned here. I live in the middle of the Mojave desert. That being said, there are some nasty creepy crawlies out here (centipedes, tarantulas, scorpions, etc). Well, this evening as I was bathing my 2 year old, a gigantic cockroach crawled out of the drain. The drain for excess water, not the main drain. When I say gigantic cockroach, I mean at least 2 and a half inches. This thing was huge. Now...I am a girly girl when it comes to bugs and spiders. Especially BIG bugs and spiders. I had a panic attack, whisked my poor son away to another room and camped out in the bathroom waiting for the ugly bugger to show his creepy little self again. Well, he never came back out of the drain, so I filled the tub up, dumped a quart of bleach into the water and then ran the water for like 20 minutes to flush him out. Still nothing. So now there's this giant roach in my bathroom that I can't get rid of and I'm terrified to go in there. Worst thing is I only have one bathroom, so I'll have to go in there eventually. I wrote my penpal while still adrenaline fueled, so, dear penpal, you should be receiving an extremely rambling letter as I'm sending it off tomorrow. What a great first letter to send someone lol.

I keep imagining this giant roach crawling across my daughter's head while she sleeps

There's my FML of the day.

No, no, that's a fair FML rockinwithrammstein! I think I'd rather move out than contend with mega-cockroaches! Or mega centipedes, or tarantulas *shudders*. And everyone reckons Australia is full of nasties!

I'll put my vent under a spoiler since it may include some triggers for depression, anxiety, suicide, and self-harm.
Sorry for rambling and for being a Debbie downer. Thanks for reading and letting me get this all off my chest.