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Update on me
Some of you know this but others don't and I'm not trying to be deliberately obtuse.
MIL was diagnosed with advanced stage cancer a couple of weeks ago. It's not hopeless but the prognosis isn't great either. H and SIL are really all she has (H's dad died about 12 years ago, and there's no other family nearby) and right now she's not doing too hot with caring for herself.
This news came on top of our ongoing struggles with our house. We bought our house at the end of September, and thought it would need only minor cosmetic upgrades. We are now hemorrhaging money despite having bought the house with plenty left over for renovations, and things are breaking faster than we can fix them.
There's other little stuff too....the relationship between H and my parents is rocky at best, and it is trickier right now because they know we are stressed and they are trying to "help".... I think most of you know I've been followed by a perinatologist since our A/S but at least last week we found out the abnormalities are almost all resolved and baby is probably fine, so that's one less thing....Also our garage was broken into about 3 or 4 weeks ago....my dog had to have 4 teeth pulled last week and was in pain and couldn't eat, but she's better now so that's good.
Really, MIL (and the house to a lesser extent) is the major stressor. It is time consuming especially for H, and it has been emotionally very difficult.
Re: Update on me
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I'm sorry things are so stressful. {{hugs}}
I am glad everything is resolving with baby boy though!
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I am sorry.
"when it rains it pours".
It is hard when so many things compound. It makes one hard thing that you normally would have handled ok, that much harder.
When you've been married this long, you need a ticker to remind you.
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Im really sorry you have so mich going on
I understand the home issues, we had to pretty much replace everyhing the first year we moved in and things continue to randomly come up.
im so sorry about your mil and that your relationship os strained still, I hope things calm down and you guys can work on each other and enjoying the lo youre going to have soon.
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