I just want to say I have had an absolutely shit day because of my family. Not the one I live with, but the one I was born into. I won't bore you with the details, but I've been incredibly upset, and ...
@kmakm Perhaps a visit to a Counsellor to develop some coping strategies may help. When I was called back to Breastscreen they put me and my husband with a Counsellor at the very start of the day, hence instincts said this isn't going to be good and it will be a long day, and it was! Amongst her advice as the day rolled out was that my husband should take on the role as the gatekeeper, whether it be visitors or phone calls et cetera to ensure that we kept the negative people out of our lives until we were ready to deal with them! If possible surround yourself with positive people, which is what you have here as unfortunately we've either been there done that or about to do that and we don't judge and we understand