by
SecretsAndLies
@ 2008-06-17 - 12:17:37
So pissed off cos I wrote this post last night and it didn't save. Grrrrrr. 
Anyway. I skipped off work early on Friday cos I had a last minute doc's appointment due to the fact that I'd been in pain and feeling like crap. Had lots of fun internal stuff with yet another GP who I've never seen before (don't think I've ever seen the same doctor twice) and got given lovely antibiotics - the sort that if you drink alcohol during the course you could wind up in hospital. Bonza.
Boyf picked me up (suitably worried about my health) and we spent a nice snoozey Friday evening together. I even cooked dinner! Saturday morning was spent in a similarly lazy style, and it was only in the afternoon things started going wrong. I'd mentioned several times to the boyf that I wanted to throw the hoover round the house but wasn't sure I'd have time, as I was supposed to be in work at 5pm and he wanted to take me for a meal beforehand. Think I mentioned it 3 times, but they obviously weren't strong enough hints, as he just sat in front of the tv watching a film he doesn't even like. Then I was trying to put my false eyelashes on (for work, not cos I always wear them!) and I just snapped. Partly because the eyelashes weren't working and partly because there was housework that needed doing and the boyf hadn't offered to help. So I got really short and snappy with him and he ended up asking if he should leave and walking out.
At that point the tears came. Now, let me explain. I am not a crying sort of gal. I will cry at a sad movie, and that's about it. I don't cry at funerals, I rarely cry when I'm in pain, and I think I cried once when I split up with someone. I heard the front door open and then his car door open and I just lay on the bathroom floor and sobbed. Every time I thought I'd composed myself another wave of anguish consumed me, and at the same time a little voice in my head was saying "what the hell's going on???" The boyf reappeared and as soon as he saw what was happening assumed he'd set me off and was full of guilt, wanting to know what he'd done. The pair of us were pretty confuzzled when I tried to explain that nothing was really the matter, I just couldn't stop crying.
Afterwards, although still a bit melancholy, I had cheered up and was successfully dry eyed and non-blotchy-faced. I had explained that I had expected him to know by some sort of telepathy that I wanted him to lend a hand with the housework, and tried to explain the female rationale behind the 'asking' rule. (ie, if something needs to be done the other person should pick up on it without having to be asked. If you have to ask you'd rather do without the help. Female logic at its finest) We went for our posh meal which was lovely and then I got called into work cos no one had turned up. I got quite a few drinks bought for me (I hadn't started the antibiotics yet) and was quite merry, despite the fact that I couldn't really bend over as my ovaries felt like they were in the midst of dying. The boyf had gone to a party with all his colleagues and their other halves and although it would've sounded dull on a normal night, I wanted more than anything to be there with him.
I ended up leaving work early after getting upset cos I couldn't get through to the boyf, and walking through town on my own to get the bus home. L texted me while I was walking at ended up coming round at about 3am. We watched a bit of TV and went to bed, and I got paranoid in case the boyf realised I'd been trying to get hold of him and came round to find L in my bed. At that point, it was totally innocent and I hadn't touched him, but even so...
In the morning, we cuddled for a bit, and then he turned the heat up. So we messed around for a bit and things were just about to get interesting when the boyf phoned me all worried and concerned. So I threw L out. (Nicely). Not like I had an attack of conscience or anything, but I realised I'd rather be with the boyf than L, despite the vast differences in levels of excitement between the two. However, ended up going to my mum's to have the 'face to face' she'd been threatening for weeks, where she declared that I had distanced myself from the family and she felt hurt and angry that although I only live round the corner, I never bother to come and see her. "It's a two-way thing" didn't wash - apparently she's the one with the hard life who gets no help and sympathy and I'm the ungrateful lazy daughter.
Guess what? I burst into tears again. Out of all the things in the world, my mum is the one person who can never make me cry, cos I'd built up a defiance as a kid and crying was a chink in the armour I used to protect myself from my mum. I ended up telling her I'd had a miscarriage (small white lie) and was unwell and starting to worry whether it had affected my fertility. She carried on having a go for a few more minutes then softened. We had the first proper chat we'd had in ages, and then went to see my nan, who doesn't even know who I am anymore. The boyf then came to pick me up and we enjoyed a peaceful Sunday evening.
Monday loomed, and I was stuck in a meeting for 4 hours. Joy of joys. You'll never guess what I did shortly after the meeting finished? That's right. Started crying again. It's getting ridiculous now. No one in the office knows, I managed to hide out in the loos til I'd calmed down and the red eyes and gone down. No one bloody cares to be honest. And I snapped at one of the guys, and he's one of the only people who's always been nice to me, and that made me feel even worse.
So what do I do?? Do I go back to my GP (another new one who I've never met before and who has no real interest in my health) and ask for anti-depressants or mood enhancers, or do I ask to be signed off for a few weeks and try to relax and de-stress, or what? I know one thing: I have a lump in my throat at the moment cos I know I'm half way through Tuesday and I haven't cried.
Yet.