Personality Disorders Community Check-in: May 7th–May 13th
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💙 How has your week been?
💚 How are you taking care of yourself?
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@QuietMagic
💙 How has your week been?…. It was well, standard, & a little busy... (And thankfully Mon-Thurs went by quickly lol)~
💚 How are you taking care of yourself?…. Spending time outdoors in the fresh air & sunshine, getting In daily workouts, cuddling with the pup & taking periodic breaks when needed.~
@PoliteOcean
Glad it was a pretty normal week for you. 💜 And those care activities all sound really solid--have started walking lately myself and the energy boost is pretty noticeable
@QuietMagic
That’s so awesome that you’ve gotten into walking! As a fitness instructor I always LOVE hearing when others tell me about their Workouts & Activity and how beneficial they find it to be for them! So glad to hear that’s it’s giving you a great energy boost!
Keep up the great work! 🚶🏻♀️👊🏼
@PoliteOcean
I didn't realize you were a fitness instructor! Yeah, I guess that would be exciting for you to hear about another success story, lol 💜
@QuietMagic
Yes, for about 15yrs now!
Definitely makes me feel good when I hear others say how much enjoyment they find out of “whatever movement” is getting them to focus on their health & wellbeing! 👊🏼
Been struggling this week.
@decisiveNorth7128
Sorry to hear that 💜 Anything unusual happen this week that made things especially tough?
Been a slightly better week, adjusting to meds again, plus taking Vitamin D.
I've been trying to get outside more, now that the weather is nicer. Also just been taking care of my shoulder injury with physio, finally starting to get better
@CelticStar7
That's great news 💜 I bet having the shoulder improving helps just by there being less pain in the background (or maybe less worry about when/whether the shoulder is going to get better). I'm taking my vitamin D also, lol
@QuietMagic
How has your week been?
this week been full of medical tests and things not going well with new home aid due to old home aid is her wife daughter that kinda bosses her around she live with them with her partner living there to
not sure how to handle this either we to kind most the time and easy going that really got us used a lot we seeing it now
💚 How are you taking care of yourself?
this week rest been thing we needed so rested and drank water that important due to other health stuff we also tried to eat better not sure that goal was really met in healthy way
@stormieandpaws
That sounds stressful having so many medical tests, and makes sense that you'd need to rest/hydrate to stay on top of the health conditions.
You mentioned your old home aid is related to the new home aid and bossing her around. I'm wondering how that affects things for you (e.g. is the old home aid interfering with the new home aid being able to care for you, is it secondhand stress of seeing the new home aid being bossed around)
@QuietMagic
yes the thing with new home aid being old home aids mom's partner and her living at old home aid home is affecting things due to like on sat. she was going to come make up for Monday when she took her partner down to be with her mom so she could not come that day but the daughter said she could not come on sat. made it like she had to come on days she setup that being mon. wed and fri but that not truth of the government that pays her just she can only do the things and hours for each week not go over them. so due to that she only came 2 days not 3 last week kinda freaking out as Friday we got note in door that DTE going to be coming this week from Monday to Thursday doing whole apartment park checking heaters and changing filters on them we not know what day they be at our apartment so with her not coming sat we have trash and other things that management will have issues with if not taken care of home aid coming at 11am a hour before she normally does
but if they come Monday before that we worried that the Manger who does not like way we keep apartment in first place and in past threatened eviction might write us up or carry through with that we did clean some and pick up things but can do no more already hurt safe in doing that to
but know it not the new home aid doing this too it her being treated like child being told what she can and can not do sadly but she did say she going to have talk about this with her partner due to with all our medical appointments that she not allowed by government rules to take us to there going to be days she really will have to work with us on that mean at times switching days too and hours at times so yes we stressing out
sorry so long
@stormieandpaws
Thanks for explaining, I understand what you mean now. (Going to call the new home aid N and the old home aid O for short).
N normally comes by on Mon/Wed/Fri but knew that she needed to miss Monday this week. So N wanted to arrange to come on Saturday instead. Both you and N were fine with this, and the government is fine with it too. (It doesn't matter what days she works as long as she stays under a certain # of hours.) But O jumped in and said that N wasn't able to come because it wasn't Mon/Wed/Fri.
Then you just found out on Friday that DTE is going to be doing inspections sometime this week Mon-Thu. (And I remember you describing the history before with your manager having unreasonable/biased standards for what things should look like and threatening eviction.)
N hasn't been able to come by since Wed of last week to clean. If DTE comes on Wed/Thu, then everything's good because N should be coming on Wed so she'll have some time to quickly do some cleaning. If DTE comes on Mon/Tue, it could be a problem since things might not be as tidy as they normally would be. (And you've done what you can to clean but can only do so much without hurting yourself.)
@QuietMagic
home aid came monday she did some but we was worried so over weekend we did lots but hurt wrist too DTE not came yet but we know the manger will say our places has to much stuff she no get we stuck at home most the time and it be painting stuff and craft stuff our apartment is like clean as we can do
home aid been taking things out that we box up for goodwill more to do
thanks
@stormieandpaws
I'm glad she was able to come and help! Reduces the chances of the manager's usual complaining escalating into eviction threats. (Sorry about your wrist though)
@QuietMagic
thank you everything end up working out in end she was her today we went out first time since Monday was just nice to get out she come again on friday we most likely do lanrdery and maybe food making stuff few other things if have time for them
just nice to haVE some help more so now with the added health issues