Hope you all feel better soon. I can sort of feel your pain, my daughter also has persistent cough and we're both just getting over chest infections.RMDC wrote:Youngest daughter has persistent cough. I have serious bronchitis. Spouse has moderate pneumonia. I'm supposed to be at a chem lab tomorrow.
Too true!stitchingmama wrote:It's hard to be a parent when you're sick, you can't just take a "sick day".
RMDC wrote:...I've been stitching at an estimated rate of almost a full BMH per day...
why do they do that!!?!?!? I hope some of you get equally annoyed by that, I also don't mean to offend anyone 
Well, in awesome news, my spouse's parents drove for hours to come take care of us over the long weekend, so that's given us a lot of relief.stitchingmama wrote:It's hard to be a parent when you're sick, you can't just take a "sick day".
I know exactly what you mean! It's bad enough with our three cats; they can be shoved to the edge, and they're indoor-only. Three dogs must be a back-breaking, sleep-depriving nightmare. My advice: tasers.Ally wrote:My gripe isn't really a gripe in the great scheme of things given what everyone else is dealing with, but two of my three dogs insist on spending the night with me. If I don't let them in they scratch at my door all night and when they come in, they lie across my bed right in the middle meaning I sleep (or at least attempt to) in the fetal position until one of them decides to move, then they wake up at 5am insisting to be let out which I can't (a whole other story there!) so it's been... annoying!
One of my best friends had the same issue with her cat. I know cats don't take nearly the amount of room on a bed that dogs do, but her husband has a slight allergy to cats and can't sleep with them in the room. So they closed their door and put a vacuum cleaner right outside the door with the switch in the "on" position. They ran the cord under the door and put it right by the bed because they have an outlet by the bed. When the cats would scratch, they would plug the vacuum in for just a second; the vacuum would turn on since it was switched on already. That trained the cats to associate scratching at the door with a big really scary noise and they stopped!Ally wrote:My gripe isn't really a gripe in the great scheme of things given what everyone else is dealing with, but two of my three dogs insist on spending the night with me. If I don't let them in they scratch at my door all night and when they come in, they lie across my bed right in the middle meaning I sleep (or at least attempt to) in the fetal position until one of them decides to move, then they wake up at 5am insisting to be let out which I can't (a whole other story there!) so it's been... annoying!
