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Reading your worries......
It is helpful to share them, I agree.
That is how I felt.
get worse. I'm worried I'm over worrying. I'm worried this situation will last longer than I can deal with it. Wow I never listed all my worries & im sure there's more. Anyway it's helpful just to share, thanks
: o)
One "organizer-type" person has not worked out, so I continued to move furniture by myself.
Still, I seem to be stuck at the point of actually going through the paper clutter.
However, it is good to know that I am officially NOT a hoarder, according to a few that I have consulted. So I was worried for nothing.
Today, I have decided to NOT worry if others are leaving the AC website, because I will survive, even while missing them.
And I worry about the caregivers who are in the trenches, on their loved ones last days, burnout looming, their hearts breaking, stretched to the limits, and there is nothing I can do to ease their burdens, except to say......eat chocolate.
Just writing this, I know my worries need to be let go.
I would check to see what was being served when I couldn't be at the nursing home and
call and ask if mom ate. She was only 85 pounds. Now her weight is normal, over 100,
I still fuss a little.
Maybe that will lighten your burden(s).
It is really difficult to take care of self-worries, when giving people will always care more about others, imo.
I sometimes worry that my head may explode if I don't get my worries out.
My worry is that I've gotten so good at pushing my worries to the back of my head to deal with later that soon there will be no more room back there and they will all come pouring out of the front of my head all at once and I won't be able to keep up with them.
But seriously, my Mom's welfare was always my biggest concern and now that she is gone I have to start worrying about me again and I don't really want to do that but it looks like I might have to cause my last Doctor's visit has raised some worry flags for me. I may have no choice anymore. I may have to deal with the extra little spare tire around my middle and my insomnia which are causing health problems. I've got other worries too but I'll start slow and work my way up to them.
Thx for starting this thread Send.
Validation! It feels good when someone else has seen the same thing! I wasn't dreaming about seeing that s h o p l I f t e r.
Ms.Madge,
Should we put a time limit on the worries? How long can you worry at one time?
Holiday end,
Maybe, you could stay out of the left field? Thanks for your contribution. Procrastination does make worries worse.
Then, I forget what exactly I was so worried about, and I am left with worry about nothing'
Then, there are those well-meaning persons, some of them singing: "Don't worry, be happy!" OR, "NO WORRIES!"
Hope you brilliant people are enjoying this "Worries Gone Wild" thread.
I have enjoyed your comments.
So sorry that I had misspoke about your worries for your Mom having a stroke.
As for my red squirrel, Lol. Thank goodness! Wrong color!
What color is your cat, I will keep an eye out.
I’m feeling better which means soon I’ll visit with my parents. It’s summertime!!! I love this green season.
I’m more of a procrastinator than a worrier. It’s seldom as bad as we can imagine. My major blows come out of left field when I’m not looking!
Nice to catch this post - thanks, Send
I saw the Peanut M&M Squirrel Bandit on the news! So funny.
Count me in as a worrier. I am getting better...I think.
I sincerely hope your worries do not come true.
And, now, I have started to worry that if I did have a crystal ball, it would be cracked.
Was not worried at all when dH and I had to leave town to pick up our loved one at the E.R. Except, the squirrel was not fed, and while we were gone for two days, there was a squirrel who robbed a local 7/11 of M&M' s peanuts! This really happened! Saw it on the news. Hoping it was NOT Ratatouille acting bad. But we are home now. Not worried.
Everything that happens in Life is just an *event*.
Anything beyond that, is what *we bring* to it.
I try to remember that, when I do worry.
My husband is awesome. The first thing he always says is..."What can you do, "right now" to change it?
He's also big on the thought...
"What's the worst that can happen?"
Followed by....
" Well, it is what it is."
LOL, I just love that man.
Smeshque, Don't fret, Celebrate! When the enemy tries to plant irrational thoughts in our minds, we are about to grow in our faith! We're jumping to a higher level! He knows this and does all he can to stop it.....Laugh and tell him,*Not today*! You know the verse" get behind me devil"..... HA!
Ok, I'm off the pulpit, and here's my fear....
What if Mom has a stroke that leaves her unable to do anything? She might be stuck in a body she can't make move. Can't eat, talk, smile etc...
I could probably handle her passing, but not that. I think it would kill me to look in those sad brown eyes, and know she's in there, helpless.
Yes DH, that's the worst that can happen.