I think people look at this and think to themselves that I am at home boo hooing about my ovaries. Yea, that part sucks, but that's not why I'm about to crack. I'm about to crack because for well over a year now, every single thing... every single aspect of my life has been a bit of a challenge. Imagine your most stressful day. Nothing goes right. Tomorrow most of you wake up and everything is better. For some of you, it carries over into maybe a week. For most of you, things get better. Imagine how you would feel if after a year, nothing has gotten better. New problems come up... old problems are still lying around, unresolved. Nothing is getting better.
After a year of this, I feel tired. I feel like I started down this road expecting to swim a few laps. These laps have turned into a river, the river has taken me to the ocean, now I feel like I have swam around the world. My GPS says that I will hit land in two hours, so keep swimming. Two hours have passed and there is no land in sight. I AM TIRED. I want to stop swimming.
What would happen if I stopped swimming? Would I drown? I'm kind of drowning now. So seriously what would happen if I let everything go. Things would suck? They suck now.
People don't see the strong person about to drown. Because on the outside, everything seems like everything is okay. Most people would have stopped swimming a long time ago. Most people have sympathy for the ones who stop swimming. I don't want sympathy, that's not what I am saying. I am going to keep swimming, this is not a cry for help. What I am saying is this... I haven't cracked yet... which is a small miracle. That doesn't mean that I am unsinkable. So please don't circle around me creating waves. I feel like people around me, people that should know better or understand, are fucking jumping into my path... shouting "CANNONBALL! SPLASH! THESE WAVES ARE FUN!" Please don't make this harder for me.
I put everyone into two categories. Category one includes people that do not add to my heaping pile of shit, neutral people that do not cause me any unpleasant emotions which include a headache, an argument, guilt, grief, anger, rage, etc. Then there is everyone else, everyone else falls into category two. Category two people are driving me insane.
I had a doctors appointment yesterday, a follow up from last months EKG appointment. Great news, I dont have a heart arrhythmia, bad news... something happened and she doesn't like the way my heart beats. So today I am walking around with a fucking box attached to me. Monitoring my heart for 24 hours. I should have asked more questions, but quite frankly, I stopped really giving a shit about 10 life crisis's ago. I will deal with it when it needs to be dealt with.
For several months, I have been dealing with my mortgage company. Also known as the fucking Wizard of OZ. Try to get anyone at that place to have the foggiest idea of what is going on. It's impossible.
I have paid my mortgage payment every month, yet somehow I am showing as past due. They show records of me making double mortgage payments. I can assure everyone that that did not happen. Now if your showing Im making double payments, how can you be showing that I am past due?
Me: Can I just pay the difference... Them: No. Me: HUH? Them: No, we have to figure this out. We will call you back in a few days. (long period of time lapses) Me calling, harassing them. Nothing. Oh, because your account is "past due" (which it really isn't past due) when you call in, your call gets routed to your special account manager. WHO NEVER ANSWERS THE FUCKING PHONE! No, our house isn't going into foreclosure, for those a-holes that just read that and now want to start the rumor train that we're about to get evicted. It's just one more thing to deal with. One more exhausting thing.
I've just kind of had it. I have no time to sit at home crying about my ovaries, because we are literally fucking sailing from one crisis to the next.
I need a vacation, and right now, sitting in my closet blowing bubbles would be a vacation.
I'm in that ocean right there with you. Now if only we could find a fucking buoy.
ReplyDeleteI think were in I chartered waters!
DeleteUnchartered Waters... Damn iphone
DeleteI'm tired of swimming too. I feel like my limbs got eaten by alligators and I'm still trying to f'n stay afloat. Hang in there.
ReplyDeleteThanks :) I need swimmies!
Deleteright there with you, keep swimming.
ReplyDeleteWe can just keep asking each other "are we there yet?" over and over and over and over! :)
DeleteI felt that way from January-June. I needed a break sooo bad. I almost wished the IFV wouldnt work because I was tired of feeling like shit all the time from all the meds. It was a dark place and I just wanted a break. (Now that Im on a break I cant wait to get back to treatment, ha ha) this feeling you have wont last, and things will change for the better. Hopefully before you have a nervous breakdown (that counts as a vacation, right?) You seem like a strong person from your blog, I have faith in you that you can make it through.
ReplyDeleteDamn typing... IVF not IFV
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! You're comment about a breakdown rings true. Yes, it would be a vacation.. And I think Friday the 13th shall collectively be known as day one of my vacation!
ReplyDeleteI know that my brain has been infected by Disney/Pixar films because as soon as I read your post, I thought about Nemo and Dorie and that "just keep swimming, swimming, swimming" part of the movie. Ugh.
ReplyDeleteAnyways, I hope that you've had some vacation time and/or less stress since you wrote this post.
Anything to do with bill paying and insurance company will be in hell, I'm sure of it.
Just checking in and hoping you are feeling better. Hope your time off work is helping
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