OK, I forgot to pay an important bill, leaving for home (PHX) tomorrow and the guy that takes care of the dogs is thinking of skipping town today. Roommate is suddenly very sick, friend/co-worker's dad lived on the beach in Biloxi and didn't evacuate...then there's work...back and leg hurting. Just have to vent, get it out, hands "falling asleep" and can't afford that today.
I've always been everybody else's support system, need my own now...

hang in there lilc, this is our life now. Stree makes our symptoms worse, so try not to let it get to you. easier said than done, I know. We are all stressed about work. I can relate, cuz I am having a very hard time with blurry vision and stuff. Lots of anxiety and depression all at the same time. Just have to suck it up and do it, ya know. We are all with you.

Hey Lilc....you know I am praying for you! Hang in there. I know it can be hard. But I also know you're a strong woman. What's the latest on the developments you mentioned?

Hey Lilc,
No problem venting that's what were here for.... :p If the saying "when it rains it poors" isn't true I don't know what is. Everything always goes wrong at once. Good ol' Murphy's law or whatever :confused: Just take a deep breath and handle one crisis at a time..... and use us as a release

Good Luck .....and Good times ahead for us all ....

Mari

Thanks, y'all, not pegged anymore, but still in the red zone! DJKD, nothing new yet, tests next week. And yes, Smartie-pants, THAT stress crept in in the midst of everything else this morning! I'm praying for you, too. We'll get through all of this. I'm changing TV channels, can't take any more on Katrina. Looking for Nick at night or something...
I thank God that I have a warm, comfortable bed to crawl into. I thank God that I have a bottle of filtered water on my bedside table, and more in the cold refrigerator. I thank God that I can pick up one of several phones and call any member of my family right now - and reach them. I thank God that I am alive, that I have the activity of my limbs, a relatively sound mind and the breath to say, "Thank you, God".

Update: Friend/co-worker's dad is ALIVE! He was in the one building in that area that was left standing!!! Got my bill paid just under the wire. Dog-sitter is taking care of the dogs until I get back to DC Tuesday. Roomate recovered by noon.
So I was getting numb for no reason...
Now, I am home in Phoenix. Not doing too badly. No aches and pains, but lots of tingly numbness. Guess it is the heat, even though I've stayed inside as much as possible. Thanks for letting me vent the other day. I'm going to try to get together tomorrow with a friend of a friend who has MS. First face-to-face with another MS'er. Wish my language skills weren't so weak right now, haven't done so well at completing sentences. Finally talked to my dad about all of this yesterday, kept stalling out mid-sentence.
Hey, is anyone else irked that this board doesn't have spell-check???

Amen, Lilc! You are always so good to support everyone else on this board, you have certainly earned the right to vent. There is a lot of stress in the world right now, that's for sure, and it adds to what we have in every day life. You are right, we have so much to be thankful for. I keep thinking about how I could not physically handle what those people are going thru, and yet we know there are hundreds of thousands there with the same or worse challenges. It's mind boggling. Anyway, have a good trip to PHX, and hopefully you will get some R&R (and not remitting/relapsing!) there!

Shadow