How do you deal with household chores (laundry, dishes, cleaning) if you have to keep your legs elevated to keep the blood from pooling? Wearing compression stockings causes me to get overly hot and pass out.#PosturalOrthostaticTachycardiaSyndrome #dishes #Laundry
It's laundry week.
That means I unearth all the dirty laundry I've hidden around the house, like the pile in the closet, the pile behind the door, the pile behind the bathroom door and the pile that was a laundry hamper but now can't be seen through the clothes.
Why do I hide and bury these things? Why is this one task so difficult for me when I'm struggling with my mental health? I've done such a great job at hiding these small piles throughout my small townhouse that I've now done 6 loads of laundry and am 2/3rds of the way through after 5 days of work.
I should be feeling good, right? Accomplished? Like I've made progress?
Except, the piles of dirty laundry have turned into one GIANT mountain of clean laundry. It looks in the corner of my room, atop a giant beanbag it waits for someone to finish the job.
I am but one person, and this task is for 2+.
How do you ask for help?
"Hello [nameofbestfriend], can you come over and help me with my laundry? It's beginning to get sassy with me. "
That would've worked prior to COVID-19 health concerns.
How do I chip away at this? How do I balance my home life? I can't look at it. I've shut the door and left the mountain for another day. That's a problem for future-me. Maybe I'll have an extra spoon or two by then.
Until then, guess I'm wearing wrinkled, mismatched clothes and a tarnished ego.
Does anyone else suffer from this issue? Dirty laundry is the worst, but I frequently struggle most with clean laundry!
Please share what works for you! 💗
i can do this.
i will do this.
dirty laundry, i will get u & clear ALL OF YOU from my baskets & my head TODAY !
i settled 3 baskets yesterday.
another 1 huge laundry basket to settle TODAY. i shall not keep that basket for another week. NO !
i am going to GET UP NOW
and DO IT !!!!
#CheerMeOn . I have clean clothes and my closet is organized for the week. Victory!!! Doing laundry is such a wonderful blessing I have not been able to do it alone for more than three years. Gratitude.
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