Hello
I guess I just wanted a bit of support, as this being the only place to really be honest to people who understand...
I sometimes find it so hard to remain positive, to just keep on going, keep smiling, keep getting out of bed each morning. My children are nearly 2 and 3 1/2 so i don't have a choice, but sometimes it takes all the willpower I have not to just run away and hide in my bed! They are great, and I have a wonderful husband and a network of supportive friends, but I just feel so worn down by the constant pain and tiredness. I've recently got bursitis in my hips and my fingers have got worse, so the constant putting on shoes and squatting down is near-on impossible. I'm trying to teach my children to do more for themselves, but sometimes my son is really defiant and I just want to burst into tears and say I can't cope any more, it hurts too much, leave me alone. Also my daughter has either HMS or EDS so the worry over her and dealing with her pain and tiredness is exhausting.
I know my friends all see me as some kind of supermummy but somtimes it's just all too much, I don't see how I can stay rational and calm with toddlers with something new appearing all the time to hurt! I hate myself for getting cross with them and overreacting about things because I am in pain. My husband is lovely but he does have to go to work, they are going to preschool, I am trying various painkillers with limited success....
I suppose I don't want solutions, I just want to know I'm not the only one out there who wonders every evening how they are going to get through the next day!
Sorry for the gloom!
xHatty
I guess I just wanted a bit of support, as this being the only place to really be honest to people who understand...
I sometimes find it so hard to remain positive, to just keep on going, keep smiling, keep getting out of bed each morning. My children are nearly 2 and 3 1/2 so i don't have a choice, but sometimes it takes all the willpower I have not to just run away and hide in my bed! They are great, and I have a wonderful husband and a network of supportive friends, but I just feel so worn down by the constant pain and tiredness. I've recently got bursitis in my hips and my fingers have got worse, so the constant putting on shoes and squatting down is near-on impossible. I'm trying to teach my children to do more for themselves, but sometimes my son is really defiant and I just want to burst into tears and say I can't cope any more, it hurts too much, leave me alone. Also my daughter has either HMS or EDS so the worry over her and dealing with her pain and tiredness is exhausting.
I know my friends all see me as some kind of supermummy but somtimes it's just all too much, I don't see how I can stay rational and calm with toddlers with something new appearing all the time to hurt! I hate myself for getting cross with them and overreacting about things because I am in pain. My husband is lovely but he does have to go to work, they are going to preschool, I am trying various painkillers with limited success....
I suppose I don't want solutions, I just want to know I'm not the only one out there who wonders every evening how they are going to get through the next day!
Sorry for the gloom!
xHatty