Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Not much to do tomorrow, except go to the printers' and the library and the bank and the store, and call my grandparents, and finish my resume. Everybody's pissed off at me right now. I'm not good company for Richard as I'm having one of the bad periods I get three or four times a year, where I have the choice between being sick to my stomach from the cramps or zonked out on Midol. Either way, I'm no fun at all. My grandparents told my mother recently that I never thank them for anything. I know that to be completely incorrect, but if that's what they think, then that's the way it is for them. So generally I just feel like a gigantic waste of space.

9 comments:

Laura said...

Have you ever tried Raspberry leaf tea? It really works for bad cramps. I never used to have them, but then I got an IUD and now I have HORRIBLE cramps every so often. It has to be raspberry leaf tea, not raspberry flavored - I made that mistake the first time I bought it. Health food stores usually carry it.

S.M. Elliott said...

Hey, worth a try!

tshsmom said...

You are NOT a waste of space!! They're just ornery and ALWAYS right.
Besides, everything would be perfect, if I'd only married the "right" man. ;)
Do you still have a higher dose of Prozac for your period?

redjane Stephanie Belding said...

Screw 'em. Not to be too impolite, but that's their battle, not yours. I watched my mom battle her parents her whole life and then battle my sis and I; only after years of therapy and treatment did things change; so take care of your needs and your heart- and cramps. Rasberry Leaf works-just remmeber to take it the week BEFORE your period, otherwise it won't help. But it does work. Hang in there!

R said...

I'm a firm believer in raspberry leaf tea as well. I'll have to try the "week before period" trick to see if that makes it even better!

S.M. Elliott said...

Seems the raspberry leaf tea does work, 'cause the health food store is sold out til next week. I'll pick some up and try it out, tho next month won't be this bad.

And, yeah, I KNOW I shouldn't take Grandma/pa seriously, but it still bothers. I can brush it off if they think I should be married or Republican or something, but if they feel I'm being ungrateful that's another thing altogether!

S.M. Elliott said...

BTW, I didn't know they still made IUDs...Are they new & improved??

S.M. Elliott said...

I picked up some of the tea at a different health food place today. I don't take extra meds or anything - most months I don't have to.

tshsmom said...

We still have TONS of those Godawful raspberry bushes! Do you want me to pick and dry some leave for you?