What's on your Tuesday Menu, RNYers?

Good luck!

Congrats!!

Yay! Can't wait to see pics!

give yourself some grace, you are just starting a new job and it takes time to get into a pattern.

I didn't walk yesterday at lunch because it was 97 degrees outside,

Mornin'!

a friend invited me to some power luncheon today and then I've got Mah Jongg all afternoon (the friend is also one of the people I play Mah Jongg with). I also need to try to get some kind of exercise in. I've not been really consistent with that lately :-(

we're going to see Hamilton in Chicago tomorrow. My mother-in-law was going to go with us, but she's been having some major anxiety issues since she moved here, so she decided to cancel. Luckily, I was able to sell her ticket to a friend. MIL has a doctor's appt on Aug 29 to discuss her anxiety, but I wish she'd call them and try to get in sooner. This is really starting to get out of hand. She must be miserable, and I don't know what we can do to help. She's been isolating herself in her apt way too often, and it's probably just making it worse. Ugh. I hope she can work through this....it's become a real problem for DH and me, too, because she really doesn't know anyone else here right now.

QOTD: tracking my food

4 years 2 months out:

B: protein pancakes topped with 1/3 C plain Greek yogurt and homemade fruit compote, coffee with half & half

MS: protein shake

L: I chose the salmon option for the luncheon. So that and whatever other safe things they have (veggies??)

AS: probably nothing (although I'll take some baby carrots to Mah Jongg in case our one player brings her snacks with her again (since her snacks are not safe for me!!))

D: salad with diced turkey

have a great day, everyone!

Good luck with MIL Hope there is something she can find in your area that occupies her time. Can you think of anything she was doing before that she can get back into? Or do you think this is just a way to get you and DH to feel bad for her? It so hard making MIL's happy.

she's had a problem with anxiety for most of her life, but she's able to control it, usually, with meds. I think this move just pushed her over the edge. We're just not sure what to do to help. I wish she'd move that doctor's appt up. It's frustrating for us not being able to do anything to help.

Try to call the doctors office yourself. Does she have you or DH on her HIPPA papers to be able to receive and give info to her health provider? If not you may want to get that done just so you can get a handle on what is going on.

May I just give my two cents on your MIL. I am guessing she is late 60s early 70s in age? Is widowed? And you said already suffers from anxiety? I can only imagine how hard this transition is for her = new city, new apartment, new surroundings and put already pre-existing anxiety on top of that she must be just beside herself. I am by no means diminishing what you and your husband are going through in having to deal with her transition but you have your husband, your established friends, established former coworkers and you have a very active social life, she has just you & hubby. Most people with anxiety (& depression) don't want to leave the house, that's pretty common behaviour.

My Mom is 75 yrs old, my Dad is still alive and well, they have a super active social life and are very self sufficient. My Mom has pretty bad anxiety and panic attacks... take my Mom out of her "comfort zone" i.e. away from her home and her routines and she is a MESS. Hubby and I rented a condo in Florida last year for a week, invited my parents down and it was the vacation from hell. My Mom had a daily melt down and panic attacks. Her anxiety got so bad she "forgot" how to get the ice out of the dispenser on the front of the fridge (all she had to do was push the lever)!!! I spent the whole vacation watching my Mom cry her eyes out from panic & anxiety and refused to leave the master bedroom for a week. They got back home and it was like it never happened, she was fine.

Maybe I am extra sensitive to persons with anxiety because of my Mom but try to see if from your MIL's perspective and if being at home with herself and her personal items is what works for her right now then let it be. As long as she is eating, drinking and not harming herself then support that. Get worried if in six months time she is still bad. Aug 29th is only two weeks away I think its a win in itself that she is willing to go to a doc and talk about her anxiety, lots of people don't.

My mom too, I always had to let her come around. If you pu**** makes it worse.