When my period stopped after I got the Mirena, I donated the rest of my tampons and pads to the food pantry in my neighborhood, because they also provide personal care items to their clients.

They let you donate boxes that have been opened? I've got a couple of those languishing in a closet.

The guy at our food pantry said that as long as the tampons and pads were individually wrapped, they would take them. Because I wasn't sure they would accept them, but I was dropping off other stuff, so I figured I'd take them along and ask.

Is it unreasonable for me to expect that if I'm in bed with a headache and TCG is in charge of ltc that he will feed her at her dinner time without my having to tell him to? He was doing some work and she was playing and not fussing (she very rarely fusses for any reason) so he didn't even notice that her dinner time had come and gone.

I'm having my monthly "I'm an idiot and called my doctor on a Thursday to get my pain meds refilled, so now I'm going a weekend without any" weekend. Because I am an idiot.

sj, I don't think it's unreasonable for you to expect that. But I fear that is the kind of error I could make.

Hil, your doctor can't call in a refill the next day?

So, I had my three good days for the month, and apparently they're over now. I spent them catching up on work and having four hours of socializing with friends last night, and now, today I feel like absolute crap. It feels like coming down with the flu, but I know it isn't, it's just how I feel when the three good days are over. Once again all the stuff I meant to do didn't get done, and I'm upset about that, and I'm upset that once again I managed to fool myself that the good days might last this time.

I didn't get to tell New Doctor everything I wanted to. I made a list and gave it to him but still I couldn't explain everything. I wasted too much time crying and pleading with him to recognize that this is not a normal way to be. So tomorrow I'm going to a mindfulness seminar he suggested. I'm doing it because I told him I would, but honestly, I think it's a bullshit waste of time. I've got a couple appointments scheduled now for a sleep study and an endocrinologist, but I have zero hope that either one will do jack for me. Even if I have sleep apnea, that wouldn't be causing something that's obviously cyclical, and the endo is gonna see perfectly normal levels of everything and tell me she can't help me just like the last two did. It's all a waste of time.

Didn't mean to kill the thread! Sorry. Carry on.

So tomorrow I'm going to a mindfulness seminar he suggested. I'm doing it because I told him I would, but honestly, I think it's a bullshit waste of time.

It may be a waste of time, but the thing is you probably need to do something different than what you've been doing. So among those things which are not your instinctive choice is probably the direction you need to move.