Maybe it's also his way of dealing with it?
I know that when I have anything stressful I need to keep it to myself until I've had time to deal with it before I share.

Thinking of everyone here having a particularly tougher time than normal - very best wishes and hope things turn out for the best.

Fingers crossed for good results x

Prayers and very best wishes. I do hope it's not serious.

Awful week at work, my OH's grans funeral today, then a weekend of work and running about after my own grandparents... Can it be Monday soon please??!!

Awww muzikalbadger not good times for you. Thinking of you today and sending hugs.

There's somebody in our glen, about quarter of a mile away, building a new house. He's doing it at the weekends because he works during the week.

He's using a tractor type machine that BEEPS every time he reverses. He's manoeuvering in a small space so all he's doing is reversing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's been REVERSING since 7am and it's driving me NUTS. I worked very late last night and it woke me up this morning when I really needed more sleep.

Even with all the windows closed it's making my head hurt. Short of going over there and losing it with him what can I do... it's like water torture. I'm one of those people who can't cope with loud background noises and right now I have the stereo up very loud to see if that drowns it out - it's one of those tones that makes your spine crawl.

Ughhh.... I feel physically sick with it.



EDIT:..... oh it's stopped ... only 2 hours later but it's stopped and everywhere is silent again

Larger vehicles have to beep when they reverse - it's a safety measure because it's impossible for the driver to see whether anyone is behind him. I don't think it's possible to turn off the beep, so you may have to put up with it, I'm afraid.

Hot water tank has given up the ghost. It started making a racket last night and I found water all over the floor.

Ants in the kitchen

8.30 on SUNDAY morning and he's at it again.... now I'm getting really angry because he doesn't do it for the rest of the day .. only first thing in the morning

I think he's some kind of idiot!

I completely sympathise - this would drive me demented. Could you have a word with him while managing to stay calm? Where I live there are often annoying noises early in the morning at the weekend as shops open up etc. I've spoken to people a few times and had some success.

Good luck!

Yup. And having to get up at 6:30 to find swimming training delayed for two hours, then intead of splitting the time equally having to do 2 hours swim training.


gaaaaaah

One of my 10 year old pupil's mum died this morning. My pupil is the youngest of 10 kids. The mum got baptised and renewed her wedding vows at church last Sunday and all the family was there.

It kind of puts life into perspective a bit!

Oh, they must be devastated. What a terrible thing.
Could have been sort of expected to be imminent to have been baptised and renewed wedding vows only last Sunday.
My heart, and prayers, go out to the husband and children

It was.... she had cancer but her family really need a mum!

So very sorry to hear this Clari Nicki. Thoughts and prayers for this very sad family. And for you too because
I know from experience how difficult it is to have a bereaved child amongst one's pupils.

So many people are having bad news at the moment. Last week I perused this forum from a work PC and I couldn't post, and by the time I got home I couldn't remember what I wanted to say or to whom or about what - but I know at least one thing was on this thread, so I just want to say hang in there, and nothing lasts for ever - no matter how dark the valley, you WILL come out of it.

Yes, I have a young pupil whose 18 year old brother died last year as a result of an accident.
He'd just finished A levels.
Coming up to the first year now so I'm aware that there may be some upset.

Elder son back st school, and younger son has a training day. Back after a few days in the Isle of Wight.

Dawn, your story has a familiar sound to it, don't let it consume you as my problems consumed me. My immediate family are currently being extremely supportive but it is oh so difficult for them and even if behaviours had changed earlier on, it would not have been easy.

Keep talking to your husband and tell him what is important and why.

I do not know why a woman who wants to practise music is an obsessive, yet a man who does something for an hour is normal. For me this smacks of double standards. Maybe misogyny is still alive in the 21st Century, or as soon as one has a label on the Mental health/ Specific Learning Difficulty spectrum, then a certain type of person believes they can attach whatever labels they wish and it is only the specialists in the field that can see the wood from the trees.

I don't know, however I wish I hadn't been taken to the brink of insanity to realise this. It wasn't a very pleasant place to be. Much happier to be gradually accepting how bad things got and on the road to recovery.

Well I disgraced myself today. The village pharmacy did not have one of my regular meds. I was trying to get pressure off me and explain to the pharmacist that there was no way I could go to another pharmacist and after six months of them regularly messing up I was more than a little tired of the same old... and for once could they ring around their branches and sort things out without loosing it.

Oh why could this conversation not have taken place in their nice little consulting room rather than in public! I suggested they rang my GP over why it wasn't a good reason not to ask me, and why it was important to do things today. So I lost it and blurted out the real reason.

Lesson for shop staff, if a difficult customer, particularly if you provide a service to adults that you supply anti-depressants to starts to suggest that it isn't good enough and that one contacts their GP, LISTEN and take it seriously. They probably do not want the world to know that they are having a particularly bad time or have had and they need you to help not be a jobs-worth.

If they don't want the world to know, it might be an idea not to post it on a public internet forum...
(just a thought!)

Bad Lesson. Lost a Book. and only 20 days till grade 8 gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!

Bill arrived for re-building of garden wall. OH agreed the job with our gardener, didn’t think to get a quote or arrange a price with him before letting him loose. Ridiculously inflated amount, well in to 4 figures, for slapping up a couple of breeze blocks and rearranging some loose stones.

Furious

Also rotten lessons today...

Incredibly awful weekend... very drained, and hope it can only get better from here...

Lost all my valuable so-called free time - in other words preparation time - yesterday. Nine pupils have asked for changes of lesson time over the next two weeks - and every one of them is genuine so I felt I had to do something. I have rearranged the timetable and emailed everyone - and then it was too late to do anything else.

True Carol, however this is the scream thread, and scream is what I did, and I'd have rather have done it in the consulting room and not in front of the other customers!

Aaagh! Someone tell me tell me to get off the Forums! I'm addicted!

I was happily practising, took a break because my embouchure was tired, and here I am STILL!

Okay Katica......out of here. Of you go! You have much needed practise to do! Skiddaddle

Rightio..

Oh dear. Families.
Work, not-enough-work,
Exam stress
Broken car (does it on purpose I think)
Families.
General middle aged life stuff
Oh dear.

Feeling totally let down ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
(going to try to resolve the situation tomorrow though.)


OH and I'm feeling totally taken for granted by the same person! Think some de-friending needs to happen!

Lots of to inigo and AuroraViolin!

Thanks
Just frustrated really... and disappointed in her reaction (or lack of) - I've been offered the most amazing work experience placement and I really thought that our family friend would benefit from it as well, so I arranged for her to come along with me. Her mum is absolutely thrilled and she does appreciate how much work it took for me to organise hotels and trains, coaches, directions, food, and entertainment for her daughter, but the daughter doesn't appear to care. At all. As in, she hasn't emailed/texted/ phoned/ facebooked or anything. I wouldn't even care if she didn't want to come; she just ought to acknowledge it! I'm going to look really stupid though if she doesn't come, or worse, comes and looks bored!
Edit...just to make it clear, it's not like she didn't know about the opportunity, she said it would be good but it felt like I was almost having to sell it to her!

Ok this Aaaaaagggghhhh is almost too big for me to cope with.

It involves a second printing error, an awful lot of money and possibly a fair bit of my reputation as a professional.

There must a be a light somewhere because this is certainly one long dark tunnel.... and I'm in it on my own....

Awwww Lottie!!! Hope you get things sorted, and get through the tunnel with reputation intact...

Feel free to pm if you need a rant!!

Hi lottie. Sending you a hug. Hope things get better very soon.

Argh, ghastly pupil. Three more lessons to go and then you’re sacked!

You don’t want to listen to anything I say, play while I’m talking, just want to come and tootle through your pieces on my nice expensive piano.

Roll on the end of term. Cull imminent.

- husband meant to be coming home early so I can get work done for tomorrow's meeting - just phoned to expect him at 8.30pm
- son 1 is off school until September and is already bored
- daughter is lovely but has taken to screaming a LOT. Hopefully this will change when she can talk - please tell me it will!
- son 2 just bit me, hard

Trying to write a dissertation while supervising three kids, cooking dinner and clearing up is not working.

Think I will crack open the wine and give up on the rest!

Sounds like a good idea!

I promise you, you'll look back and wonder where the years went. It just seems like a long time when you're in the middle of it. Hang in there.

I'll join you with the red. It had been a difficult day lightened by a visit by my best pupil. Had some unfortunate repercussions following an assault on my son. I got cornered by the assailant's mother and although my conduct was impeccable it was rather trying.

Ooh Id love to see you angry !
After I came along A14 near to you today Jod, I picked up a message on radio that A14 was closed between Thrapston and Kettering, the route I was taking ! Had to shoot up A1 to Stamford and take an old route I know across to E Mids airport , then A50. Took a lot longer than usual to get from East Suffolk to Wirral. Great pub lunch in Wymeswold, a pub I last visited in my student days at Nottingham.

You would have been welcome today. I wasn't angry at all I just wanted to go home in peace.

Thanks, maybe we can meet another time, I spend an awful amount of time on the A14, I might even be coming down again next weekend as Mrs is still down there and Mother outlaw in hospital.

Sending a big hug to you. Hope the light at the end of the tunnel will soon appear.

Thanks everyone for the hugs and messages of support - it really does help


There is a tiny light at the end of the tunnel and the people I thought would be angry with me may still think I'm a bit incompetent but they're being nice to me about it... sort of makes me feel better.

My husband admitted he would sack me if I worked for him but in terms of disasters nobody 'died' and it will work out in the end. Thankfully I'm self-employed so although I've given myself a big kick up the backside I just get up and get on with the work today again

If I ever win the lottery though I will employ someone to run that side of the business!! (I'm a painter not an administrator )

well, the conclusion seems to be "we don't know" - there is "something" there, it is very small, between the initial and most recent scan it doesn't seem to have grown as quickly as they would expect recurrance to grow but beyond that they (and by they I mean the team looking at results including radiologist and consultant) didn't really know what it was or what to do about it. The two options were wait and rescan in a few months or try and whip some (all?) out for a biopsy. Found out today that they have opted for the latter, which - although more invasive - at least feels a bit more proactive. But still a case of waiting and hoping that it isn't anything serious.

Fingers crossed all will be well