What is the week shaping up like for you?

[wiserlady]

Have you any plans for how to spend your time this week? The best and worst bits of it. Any really great bits.

[elderspectrum]

There really is no best coming up this week. I need to hire someone to take care of me because my son is leaving and I cannot get out of the house by myself. I'm getting evaluated for a case management program at my local senior center. I'm so depressed that I'm confused by things that used to be simple for me. I hope this is not going to be a permanent situation because I cannot afford to hire caregivers indefinitely. I'm under the care of a psychiatrist and therapist. I see lots of doctors. My goal is to avoid going to the mental hospital like my past two episodes nearly 40 years ago. So my plans for this week are to avoid the worst outcome, and hope for a better future.

[wiserlady in reply to elderspectrum]

Hi, thanks for replying to my post. Am very sorry you are worried about how things are, but things can get sorted out and you can become more positive as things pan out? Maybe it just needs that one meet or one thing to change to make things better and give you more hope. It is hard though isnt it, to feel positive when so worried.

[Kat63 in reply to elderspectrum]

I hope you can find a good solution. I know it must be scary.

[Kat63]

I’m in the middle of a four-day weekend off from work - which sounds good, but I didn’t plan enough stuff to do this weekend. That’s not good for me. When I don’t have enough to do, I think too much.

[wiserlady in reply to Kat63]

I get like that, wanting to be busy with stuff so I dont get bored and then think. And sometimes when I am supposed to be busy and have lots to do its still hard to get on with it because the thinking gets in the way.

[Kat63 in reply to wiserlady]

Me too.

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It's going to be a difficult week for me at work. There is an employee that has not done her work and slowed everything down so we won't get as many patients or bonuses. She misses two to three days a week and is complaining she can't keep up. I'm afraid I will have to take on her duties while she misses all the time and doesn't get her job done. It's not fair to me at all. I'm the only nurse and shouldn't have to do an insurance job on top of managing the office too. I can't let down my boss but why should we caudle someone who just wants her job to be easier? Makes me so mad.

[Kainan]

I'm just looking forward to getting back to work after 2 weeks being homebound with an injury. I hope I get good news from the doctor tomorrow. How's your week ahead looking?