Mom (me) getting a little freaked

[iraisin]

OK.

I'm having new windows put on the house tomorrow.

There's a dang blasted hurricane heading into the gulf (I live in the TX Gulf Coast).

My baby boy is getting married this month - and I still don't have my dress!

I just got a notice that my 2 dogs are due all their shots (more money!). And Daisy is still eating poop even though I'm giving her vitamins!

Demo on a remodel I designed is starting 2 days late! Paint crew is on their way and demo isn't done.

I cancelled my GI scope to check on my ulcer - which I'm sure is growing - to meet deadlines at work.

family woes.

AAAHHHHH!!!!

OK. Thanks y'all. I just had to scream that out loud. I'm better now. Appreciate it. This was very theraputic. It kinda feels like that third day of constipation and I finally got to go.

I think I can sleep now.

[Gayle]

ROFLMBO!! Glad to be of help!
Sending hugs and prayers!!!!

Gayle

[artistangie]

ugh lady!  you got lots going on

[JakeL]

You deserve a good rest. Maybe after some sleep you can figure out a battle plan. Tbh I think you might need to get that ulcer checked--of course work is important, but it might turn into something severe and you'd have to miss work then as well. And all your stress contributes to it as well. Anyways. I hope that you feel better.

[Diane63]

Breathe deeply for 2-3 minutes at a time whenever you can.  Helps a lot.

I CAN help a little with the dog poop eating thing.  My third dog, a shelter rescue, spent her first 2 yrs chained alone in a back yard and got into eating her own poop because there wasn't much food.  After I adopted her I found this out, and found a solution.  Drs Foster & Smith (on the website of that name) sell a great product that I used for about a month.  It is a foul-smelling, great-tasting (to dogs) chewable thing about the size of a Heartgard dose, that makes dog poop taste
TERRIBLE!  I, personally, have never tasted dog poop (if I report on this forum that I have done it, please call someone and have me taken away post haste), but it cured little Raskel in about 3 weeks.  You give it to all your dogs, so no matter whose poop she ingests, she never does it again.  I noticed her doing it yesterday - she was very sneaky about it - so I'm going to break out the magic bottle again and use it for awhile.

You said you live in Texas.  Do you have big hair?  Or has it fallen out like the rest of us?  Tee-hee.
Lotsa luck. 

Diane

[lighthouse33]

Diane,

I was just looking at my Drs Foster & Smith catalog, are you talking about the chewable product that starts with the letters of Dis-.  It says to stop stool eating fast.  They have an extra strength version and a regular strength version.  It contains monosodium glutamate with capasicum oleoresin - the active ingredient in chili peppers.  Yummy - red hot chili peppers tasting poop!  I bet that would be enough to lick any dog's poop eating fetish!

[Diane63]

I think that's the one.  I'll go on line and see, just to make sure.

Diane

[Diane63]

Just checked on line and that's the one - Dis-Taste.  My dogs love 'em.  And after a few days of munching those little suckers down, there was no poop-eating from my problem child.  Highly recommend them.  But they do smell AWFUL!

Diane

[KareninOhio]

My dog used to eat her stool, too.  We used to give her a couple of spoonfuls of canned pumpkin in her food each day.  Seemed to do the trick. 

Whenever I get stressed I try to tell myself "This, too, shall pass."  and it will.  Deep relaxing breathes.

[sass]

well, this has been quite the  little post here...  from the mother of the grooms attire to dog eating poop..thank you little raisin for bringing this all to the forefront!  I too live on the Texas Gulf Coast and we just have all this lovely weather and humidity.  Diane63, on the coast we do not loose our big hair, it is glued on with the humidity and something we call gumbo mud!!  Not that the hair did not fall out, it just stays!!!  lol  ~sass~

[iraisin]

Thanks y'all..

Windows - check

Ernesto - vacationing in Mexico - check

Big Hair - check

one bridal shower down - check

Battle plan:

Go online and buy Dis-Taste from the dr.
Go to Dillards get my dress - one that won't have to be altered...hopefully
Call gastro in September and reschedule
Live w/what ever happens with demo/paint crew
breathe, sleep, pamper myself up to and after all of this.

[Diane63]

Sass, I've always wondered about that hair thing.  Thanks for setting me straight (although what's left of mine is naturally curly).  And Raisin, your plan sounds good.  Especially the pampering part.  I'm not particularly stressed right now and I might try a little of it.

This post of yours has been so much fun.  I know what motivated the post isn't fun, but I have so much enjoyed hearing what everyone had to say.  You sound like you're in a better place now.  Hope you have a wonderful wedding experience, and that the house turns out great.

Diane

[iraisin]

HA! good.

My hair is naturally curly too, so in this heat and humidity it really puffs out. I look like a disco queen until the fall.

[Diane63]

Shake it baby!

[engy]

iraisin,

Your plan sounds like a good one to me!

We have tried the distaste (with the dog I mean, not personally) & worked well.

Good luck !