The universe is sabotaging my life...

[Coracao]

Have you ever had one of those days, where you just know the universe is sabotaging your life? Well, that's me....if it can go wrong it will! So I'm preparing for the April 29 MCAT, actually been preparing for the last century or so...and STILL falling behind.At this point I should just schedule myself for the April 2012 test! Sorry about all the sarcasm, really bad day between my 4 year old almost burning the house down, receiving a letter from my 3rd grader that she will need summer school and most likely repeat 3rd grade (REALLY!!!! 3rd grade!!!!), oh and that she believes my daughter should be put on meds to focus (thank you Mrs 3rd grader teacher turned MD!), my 7 year old wont eat ANYTHING!, the house...oh the house ...tazmanian devil took a nice long spin, the dishwasher broke, I have about 17 loads of laundry (that's only for this week!!!!).............the list is endless I don't even want to continue. Wait I actually feel a little better, nah that was just for a second.

Help, want to through myself out the balcony!!!! so stressed I can't even cry!

How am I going to do this?????????

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[ejw5075]

Have you ever had one of those days, where you just know the universe is sabotaging your life? Well, that's me....if it can go wrong it will! So I'm preparing for the April 29 MCAT, actually been preparing for the last century or so...and STILL falling behind.At this point I should just schedule myself for the April 2012 test! Sorry about all the sarcasm, really bad day between my 4 year old almost burning the house down, receiving a letter from my 3rd grader that she will need summer school and most likely repeat 3rd grade (REALLY!!!! 3rd grade!!!!), oh and that she believes my daughter should be put on meds to focus (thank you Mrs 3rd grader teacher turned MD!), my 7 year old wont eat ANYTHING!, the house...oh the house ...tazmanian devil took a nice long spin, the dishwasher broke, I have about 17 loads of laundry (that's only for this week!!!!).............the list is endless I don't even want to continue. Wait I actually feel a little better, nah that was just for a second.

Help, want to through myself out the balcony!!!! so stressed I can't even cry!

How am I going to do this?????????

Throwing yourself out a balcony probably won't fix anything..

Ask yourself what you would do if you weren't to do "this," not sure what you are pursuing but anyways, life is always going to give you crap to deal with. Just Do It..

 

[0919mmk]

Have you ever had one of those days, where you just know the universe is sabotaging your life? Well, that's me....if it can go wrong it will! So I'm preparing for the April 29 MCAT, actually been preparing for the last century or so...and STILL falling behind.At this point I should just schedule myself for the April 2012 test! Sorry about all the sarcasm, really bad day between my 4 year old almost burning the house down, receiving a letter from my 3rd grader that she will need summer school and most likely repeat 3rd grade (REALLY!!!! 3rd grade!!!!), oh and that she believes my daughter should be put on meds to focus (thank you Mrs 3rd grader teacher turned MD!), my 7 year old wont eat ANYTHING!, the house...oh the house ...tazmanian devil took a nice long spin, the dishwasher broke, I have about 17 loads of laundry (that's only for this week!!!!).............the list is endless I don't even want to continue. Wait I actually feel a little better, nah that was just for a second.

Help, want to through myself out the balcony!!!! so stressed I can't even cry!

How am I going to do this?????????

This too shall pass. Take a deep breath and a step back, and realize why you are doing this. You decided that you want something more out of your life/career. Some days will suck along the way, but it's all for a purpose. Keep your goal at the front of your mind - that will give you the strength to get through those days. Many of us in the non-trad forum are facing the same type of s**t on a daily basis- if we can do it, so can you; nobody is superman/woman.

This is what it takes, and you can do it. 👍

 

[Coracao]

Throwing yourself out a balcony probably won't fix anything..

Ask yourself what you would do if you weren't to do "this," not sure what you are pursuing but anyways, life is always going to give you crap to deal with. Just Do It..

I really wouldn't trow myself out the balcony, just an expression of my affliction at the moment... I know I just have to do it (MD/DO), and I don't "break" easily but when it piles and you just can't hold it together any longer, you just want to let it out. Just venting, thank you for listening, support and words of encouragement; well received!

BTW👍👍👍to all the parents out there!!!!!

 

[ShyRem]

One day at a time. I can definitely sympathize. Fortunately for me, I had a very good clear idea of what was important.
Dust bunnies? Not important. Not unless they were large enough to need to be fed and were about to attack at any given moment. Even then, can you kick them into submission? Not important.
Kids picky eaters? Well, if they get hungry enough they'll eat.
Laundry? As long as you have clean underwear, the rest can be used another day.

Sounds like you need order in your life. Make a plan. Kids come home from school, it's time to sit down at the table and do homework. Are you feeding them healthy food or processed food? Too much soda? Are they getting enough outdoor physical activity? The one thing that saved my sanity was a definite plan and schedule in my life. And eat well. It's very tempting and quick to eat crap, but that'll make things more hectic and unfocused for you.

 

[ejw5075]

I really wouldn't trow myself out the balcony, just an expression of my affliction at the moment... I know I just have to do it (MD/DO), and I don't "break" easily but when it piles and you just can't hold it together any longer, you just want to let it out. Just venting, thank you for listening, support and words of encouragement; well received!

BTW👍👍👍to all the parents out there!!!!!

I figured as much. I say that quite often actually, replace balcony with cliff and throw myself with drive, or tylenol. 🙂

Venting is good... and fortunately there are many people here who know what you going through and probably have great tips for you!

Good Luck

 

[mafunk]

Have you ever had one of those days, where you just know the universe is sabotaging your life? Well, that's me....

Oh really? Well the universe was busy with my life yesterday and has now moved on to you? That dang Universe!

Hang in there. It will get better.

And, about your daughter. If you care to PM me, feel free to. My kids are raised, but we had a similar situation with my oldest - very stressful for a mom.

 

[chrissyxf]

We're all going through tough stuff. And like a previous poster said, this too shall pass. I'm focusing on the serenity prayer at the moment and it's helping. My mother was just diagnosed with breast cancer so I had to take off work and school to attend dr's appts and surgery (thankfully, LN's were negative and she started radiation this week) and THEN her sister (yesterday) gets diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and since I work in a GI department, I'm the one working on getting her appts (it looks like it may be small and surgically resectable but she needs to see a surgeon). Oh and my future mother-in-law hates me because I'm going to medical school which she decided to reveal to me in the middle of all this. I'm apparently going to make her son very lonely. So anyway, can't change the cancer stuff and can't change how she feels. What I can do is work my ass off to get into the school close to where I live so at least I don't have to uproot my fiance and leave my family.
Also, these forums help so much. I just read through the acceptance thread for the umpteeth time and was so encouraged- if all the others here can do this with their unique obstacles, we can too! Chins up 🙂

 

[Coracao]

One day at a time. I can definitely sympathize. Fortunately for me, I had a very good clear idea of what was important.
Dust bunnies? Not important. Not unless they were large enough to need to be fed and were about to attack at any given moment. Even then, can you kick them into submission? Not important.
Kids picky eaters? Well, if they get hungry enough they'll eat.
Laundry? As long as you have clean underwear, the rest can be used another day.

Sounds like you need order in your life. Make a plan. Kids come home from school, it's time to sit down at the table and do homework. Are you feeding them healthy food or processed food? Too much soda? Are they getting enough outdoor physical activity? The one thing that saved my sanity was a definite plan and schedule in my life. And eat well. It's very tempting and quick to eat crap, but that'll make things more hectic and unfocused for you.

Yep, I have the plan but you know how it goes sometimes...well for me about every 6 months or so things you kinda let go catch up with you and at that point you just have to let out some frustration tears. I'm usually pretty hardy with stuff like that, don't really let anything get to me, but I guess lately with all the difficulty my kid is having at school, and the battle I feel I'm am loosing with her, I'm a little desperate. As far as eating we have always been a very healthy conscious eating family, I don't even use anything canned for cooking (like tomatoes and beans), probably even extreme. We cook/freeze and store, been saving me last couple of weeks! Plus we do tons of soups! Sodas have always been non-existent here, and juices are diluted...but i do see I could take a little better of myself, I often forget me...
Thank you for the laugh and the advise!

 

[Coracao]

Oh really? Well the universe was busy with my life yesterday and has now moved on to you? That dang Universe!

Hang in there. It will get better.

And, about your daughter. If you care to PM me, feel free to. My kids are raised, but we had a similar situation with my oldest - very stressful for a mom.

Thank you I will do that. I actually called her school and spoke to the guidance counselor about the situation, and we are going to be doing the Connors evaluation, then go from there. Meanwhile I added some brain boosting vitamins to her diet, see how that goes...if anything the placebo effect😀!

Thank you

 

[Coracao]

We're all going through tough stuff. And like a previous poster said, this too shall pass. I'm focusing on the serenity prayer at the moment and it's helping. My mother was just diagnosed with breast cancer so I had to take off work and school to attend dr's appts and surgery (thankfully, LN's were negative and she started radiation this week) and THEN her sister (yesterday) gets diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and since I work in a GI department, I'm the one working on getting her appts (it looks like it may be small and surgically resectable but she needs to see a surgeon). Oh and my future mother-in-law hates me because I'm going to medical school which she decided to reveal to me in the middle of all this. I'm apparently going to make her son very lonely. So anyway, can't change the cancer stuff and can't change how she feels. What I can do is work my ass off to get into the school close to where I live so at least I don't have to uproot my fiance and leave my family.
Also, these forums help so much. I just read through the acceptance thread for the umpteeth time and was so encouraged- if all the others here can do this with their unique obstacles, we can too! Chins up 🙂

Wow, I'm so sorry to hear about your family. Things like this definitely puts my "difficult" life into perspective. I too lost my best friend to cancer last year, it was very difficult to her and the family, I hope everything works out for the best, I will send you Chrissyxf-where ever you are and your loved ones positive energy and thoughts.
We have to continue battling on for what we want, in the end the ones that stuck around are the ones you should care about....so forget about the opinion of mother-in-laws and anyone else that gets in your way!
How close are you getting into med school? I'm now studying for the MCAT, hopefully taking in April.

 

[wholeheartedly]

Life gets crazy sometimes.

I used to joke "The universe favors entropy. My life is in perfect sync with the universe.....that's gotta be a good thing right?" 😛

Hang in there folks.

 

[chrissyxf]

Coracao- You're completely right about not letting people get in your way...i'm really figuring out who are truly my friends in this! I'm taking the mcat in may and applying this cycle. wish I could take it earlier in April but i wont' be ready/i'm taking organic 2 now and it would land around my final and I just don't want to have the potential to sacrifice both scores. So May it is. Hopefully I can complete AMCAS in early June and just be waiting for my score. How are you studying? on your own or with a class?