How much longer will this last? Cold n 'flu related

There is a lot of it going around at the moment.

I hope you feel better soon

Thanks Sandie

I wasn't sure if it was the same cold, or another one I've picked up since getting home. Either way we've both got it, so both feeling like crap!

How are you doing? Thinking of you ?

I am just taking one day at a time. Thanks for asking

Oh Starstruck .. Kerri, thank you so much for your post and sharing your story about your brother. It has helped - more than I think you know - to know I'm not alone, and not that it comforts me you are going through the same/similar, hell, far worse by the sounds of it .. well, actually it does. I'm so sorry you too are going through this. I wouldn't want to wish it on anyone - to be in either the position we are both in, or to be our brothers. It must be pretty scary for them too.

There isn't one post that hasn't meant the world to me, and been either comforting, advising, empathic, encouraging or someone worrying. And please don't think that because I don't 'know' you as well as some on the forum, your post means any less than theirs. In fact, I don't always notice the names at first, but I always notice the words and sentiments.

I'm so sorry your brother is in a bad place. A terrible place. It must be the most frightening thing ever to know your sibling is in the frame of mind they want to take their own lives. Mine doesn't want to live, not right at this moment, but he's not gone further than talking about it. I've been told the more they talk about it, the less they mean it, and it's more a cry for help.

I know exactly what you mean about being knackered. It's not only mentally draining, but physically too - although I'm not doing any physical work, I ache and feel like I've run a marathon (whatever that feels like as I've not run a marathon in my life!).

Thank you for posting. I was so touched I read your post to Mr P, which I don't often do.

Wishing happiness and peace for you and your brother too ?

PS. I'm sorry you're also suffering with this blasted cold. I wrote the OP when Mr P was still in bed this morning. He felt like crap so slept in. When he got up at 11.30 (more than 6 hours after he usually gets up!) he hasn't stopped streaming. So here we go again with a brand new fresh cold in the house.

Happy days ☹️

The last thing either of us need right now is a streaming cold on top of the cough and catarrh and phlegm and malaise. Woe is us!

Hope you feel better soon ️☕️

Aww, Peaches. I'm not a medic by any means but I think your bad cold/flu has hung around you because you're stressed about your bro ?

More than anything else, you need to relax and take some time out for you.

Not to take away form Kerri's post, but my mum is bi-polar and while she's ok(ish) just now, things have been frantic in the past (emergency sections, od's etc). So I can understand to an extent what you've been through.

Thing is though, as much as we love our family members who are ill, we can't live their lives for them. Believe me, i've tried, but I honestly ended up nearly as ill as my Mum.

All we can do is be as strong as we can for them and love them regardless of the awful illness they are suffering. To do that though, Peaches, to be strong enough, you need to look after yourself.

I'm rambling now so i'll end here. But i'm always here Kerri and Peaches if I can help at all.

Thank you Maxi. I'm sure you're right about the cold as it's just hanging around, gets slightly easier then worse again. Mr P is absolutely streaming and has been getting worse as the day has gone on, and now I've got another sore throat. Because we both feel crap, we're on edge which isn't helping.

I'm sorry to hear your Mum has suffered too, and to such an extent that she was sectioned and taken ODs. You must have been so frightened. I'm so sorry .. we always imagine our parents will be the strong ones, and the ones to look after us.

I'm doing my best to take care of myself. A holiday away from it all would help, but that won't be happening any time soon.

Thanks for posting and your support ?

Sandie, I wrote a long reply to you earlier and for some reason it's not on the thread, so Hitched must have eaten it.

I can't remember verbatim what I wrote, but it was something along the lines of please lean on us when you need to. You'll have good days, bad days, and no doubt, terrible days. When you've got no-one around, there will always be us to talk to, and you may find us easier to off-load on than someone face-to-face.

My heart goes out to you. Thinking of you ?

Sandie, I wrote a long reply to you earlier and for some reason it's not on the thread, so Hitched must have eaten it.

I can't remember verbatim what I wrote, but it was something along the lines of please lean on us when you need to. You'll have good days, bad days, and no doubt, terrible days. When you've got no-one around, there will always be us to talk to, and you may find us easier to off-load on than someone face-to-face.

My heart goes out to you. Thinking of you ?