General Chat

I hope you get some good news soon and some sleep! I am sure some rest will help you get through things more positively. I know you need to work to build up the money but do take your health into consideration. I hope all goes well for you. Jacky :-)

Zoe, I know just how you feel. Ive felt like that for a couple of years now. Just as one thing is sorted another great weight bangs down on you. I dont have any great ideas Im afraid, but you will get through it. Thinking of you.

Hope your mum is better today Zoe. Wishing you all, all the best Germaine x

Hope you get better news about your mum today, Take care Star

(((BIG HUG))) for you Zoe, I know what you mean. Hope all your family members get better soon. Rest up a little or you will be ill Heather xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I do hope your mum is ok, i can imagine how worried you must be, But you really need to take some time out,and as was said before your mum may need your help when she gets home so try to relax as much as you can. I told my friend who was working hard and saving hard for a rainy day, that its all very well but they don't have shops in heaven. Take care. Shirley Ann.

Now, I'm gonna sound either really hard or heartless here, but ... your mum and cousins baby are in the best place, where they can be looked after and given any treatment needed. You have got to slow down and start looking after yourself. It's no good saving money, by working yourself into the ground, if you're not going to be able to enjoy it. You are making yourself ill. Chill and get yourself some 'me' time. When your mum's released from hospital she'll probably need some looking after for a while - make sure you're up to it by getting some rest now. AL

hi zoe how is things today hope you have had some rest and hope your family are on the mend love lorraine xxx

Sending best wishes to you and your mum. I do hope she will be well again soon. Hope you can manage to get the sleep you need to help you cope, and that you won't push yourself too hard with your job. Joy.

Hope you get some good news today, However bad things are they always seem to play on your mind more at night. Hope this morning you can see things a bit more positively. I am a born worrier and if there's nothing to worry about I'll worry about that. Keep your chin up Linda x

Oh Zoe, I hope today beings you good news. Gwynne

hoping things will turn around for you soon. wishing your mum a speedy recovery take care tina x

Oh Zoe, Hope you get some sleep soon. Thinking of you and your Mum. Love Viv. xxx

Zoe, I can't believe I just typed a long reply to you and lost it!! I really can't do it again but suffice to say, try not to think about the dry times and take a little time for yourself and for what you have to do now, so you don't get ill too. Life is what happens when you are making plans, said John Lennon, and I should have thought of that when I spent too much time worrying and planning for the future and missed my todays, and got ill. I do hope your mum is better soon, she sounds a lovely lady and you will manage together, when she is better. Tell her to get well soon and spend some quality time together for both of you to recharge your batteries. Almost always around late if you need a rant when you get back from where ever you chase to, so take care. Good luck to your cousin and her little mite, had all this with baby Sam (young friend's prem baby) he is now home and doing ok as far as I know, but they have cut themselves off a lot so haven't seen them. Still have one or two little baby things in small sizes that didn't get passed on to Sam so if your cousin needs them I am sure the lovely people who sent them and the wool I knitted things from, won't mind so long as a baby somewhere has them. Liz x

me again z,this is for you I wish you serendipity A little magic in your life, And gentle, calm serenity, To combat stress and strife. I wish you sweet tranquillity, Along your future way, And love to grow abundantly, To fill your world each day.

You poor thing!!! I really feel for you, but you really need to take your mum's advice or you'll be the one that's ill next. My life was pretty crap earlier this year and I ended on the sick for 3 months with stress--I don't reccomend it either!! Take it easy, give yourself an extra day off noe and again, and rant away to us, your pals at genes anytime you like. Loads of hugs for you and your mam, hope she's soon better. Carol

Oh z ,you are having a horrid time,hope things get better for you soon,make that a veryyyyyyyyyyyyy large glass of baileys,I'll send all my guardian angels to help you through,

I wish I lived closer so I could come and help but NZ is a long way from London, alas. Chin up, all good things come to those who wait. Your turn will come, soon I hope.

Sorry about this all but I really need a rant and at the moment I don't really have any pals that I can just ring and blether to at this time of the morning. Today was meant to be my rest day having worked until 2am Saturday/Sunday morning and going back to work for 9am Monday. Some of you may remember the last time I allocated myself rest days I was called into action as Auntie after my niece was taking into hospital with meningitis. As a freelance the summer is my busiest time and because I'm not sure how much work I'll get when people stop taking holidays I've been trying to do as many shifts as possible to build myself up a safety fund for the 'dry' months - which basically means I'm doing 8 or 9 shifts a week. Any time I get off is meant to be spent lazing around the house and recharging the batteries. So having lost the last two days off running around after a three year old and pandering to his whims (don't get me wrong - I LOVE having him) I don't feel like I've actually had any time off snce about June. The only person that can really see how hard I'm working at the moment is my Mum - who's constantly telling me to slow down and take some time - and for some reason she felt REALLY bad that Mollie went into hospital and I ended up looking after Mickey. Today at about 2pm my Mum woke me up. She's been ill the last few days but looked much better yesterday when I went off to work at lunchtime. She apologised about twenty times and then asked if I could take her to the hospital - but if I didn't feel up to it she'd get her best friend to come over twenty miles across town to do it. She looked absolutely awful. She had a pounding headache. Now, my Mum's not a complainer. We're both mmuch teh same in that you just take a tablet and get on with it an if it still hurts then you put up with it - so to be asking to go to hospital she had to be really bad. To try and cut a lengthening story short - we spent 5 hours in the hospital before they decided to keep her in overnight for observation because they think she has meningitis too. And I'm petrified. And exhausted (but unable to sleep). Whilst I was at the hospital my cousin texted me to say she's had her baby 5 and a half weeks early and he's in special care - which is just another blooming worry on top of everything else. And I just need whoever is up there watching us to give us just one g'dam break in a while from the relentless hammering we're taking and let us just enjoy SOMETHING in life for once. And I just needed a good rant (what I actually need is to kick a wall really hard - but i'd most likely break something wouldn't I?) So I'm off for a nice large glass of Baileys in hope that it'll take the edge of yet another shotty day and send me to sleep for an hour or two. Z xx

extensive rant below