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-3 Probably just have a bit of a cold, but it’s affecting my breathing a bit, so I’m slightly worried it might be COVID. I really, really don’t want to have to live through that, or have more long-term health effects from it than I already have from chemo. My mom insists I don’t need a test to make sure because I’ve only been out of the house for medical appointments, and I couldn’t possibly have picked it up there So I have to just wait and hope I don’t become seriously ill and am not putting anyone else at risk.

At my typical 7.

Again at my typical 7.

3. Have been out of work for 3 weeks and my sleep cycle's done a total 180.

Something a-ok, something annoying and something troublesome.
Neither positive nor negative.

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Haven 101 from yours truly;

In order to, well, 'make this person deal with whatever he or she is ranting or crying about', you first calm them down.

Put them in state that doesn't make one fly off the handle.
Do not simply express your own impatience or annoyance towards their flight -- changes it is not the right place for it.

It can be done in many ways, one is sympathy without having it to bordering to pity -- pity is not very respectful and pity is a form of enabling.
To be sympathetic is simple; express the feelings with them -- not at them.

Another is assurances that assures it can be done and one had gone through it -- the feeling of understanding or just less alone -- while doesn't dismiss an individual circumstance.

One form is to be present for the individual in question.
A simple greeting, or a casual question that engages them perhaps, either assures them or distracts them from the source distress, until they're ready to go beyond.

Cheering one up in context of jokes had to be explicitly done with already known references concerning both parties.

Solution based is done best if explicit questions are involved, with the need for assurances are solved -- or that solution based replies are what assures the individual in question.

And certain projections are best done to those who struggles with expressions and reflection, usually cued by confusion or inquiry.


Revise/apply at your own discretion.

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At a 6.

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-15. Because I feel depressed about being at home all the time.

-5 Four nights in a row of terrible sleep due to horrible joint pain (probably from chemo), last night I actually slept decently, but I’m still exhausted today. Also dreading chemo again on Thursday, but at least it will (hopefully) be my last one. Really not looking forward to the taste it usually puts in my mouth for several days, or more chest and joint pain. I could say “Well, it is keeping me alive,” but I’m not so sure I’m happy about that. I think I reached my expiration date years ago, and now I’m just like that container of mystery leftovers hiding in the back of the refrigerator, clearly not good anymore but somehow managing not to be thrown away.

-5 Fed up with everything!

At my typical 7.

0, have my fingers crossed that chemo might not hit me so hard this time, and knowing it’s probably my last one. Not looking forward to the extreme fatigue I hear comes from radiation, but at least it’ll be in place of the grab-bag of chemo side effects, and a step closer to being done done with all this. Mostly just waiting to see what happens now.

^^ Hope you’re okay, D&D. Will be so relieved for you once you get through all this. X

9 I’m sewing a polar bear’s leg onto its body at the moment.

Again at my typical 7.

5. A snail's pace progress with it all.

-4 and +4. Sleep deprivation is probably messing with me again.