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R to @tessloftus40: Oh I’m not rising. I’m chilled as do. Just very hard to see blatant and incredible lies being repeated by people who I thought were some kind of friends, and I’ve ignored it while I recover but I definitely have a right of reply now I’m on the mend.

 
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R to @Rocket6165: Some of them are very open about trying to drive me to suicide, and they encourage each other to come up with ‘ways’ to ‘press on her known vulnerabilities til she cracks’. It’s very…odd.

So I’m gonna live forever*, just to really piss them off 😂

(*you know what I mean.)

 
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R to @DrRebeccaTidy: Wait you mean a person who routinely makes up crap on twitter may have…just made up some crap on twitter? Huge if true 😂😂😂

 
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I’m not going to sleep yet: am laying in (my old, enormous) bed next to a sick 12 year old watching him snuffle and thrash and breathe like he’s 12 hours old again - and everything important in our world right now is in those fragile moments between the fidgets and whimpers.

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: (I sleep on the couch downstairs usually - have done for a while now since we started preparing for the move - it just felt a bit too far away this evening. He has severe breathing difficulties in the cold and damp sometimes, it’s terrifying. Random asshats on twitter can wait.)

 
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R to @LifeLefty: It’s like keeping temperamental houseplants - we need the house warm enough for my arthritis and his chest, and the humidity straddles a very fine line between ‘just enough to not dry his throat out, not so much that my joints grumble’. Its quite the balancing act sometimes!

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: (When he’s not here I let the house go cold and just sleep/exist in thermal leggings, tracksuit bottoms, several jumpers and a cosy fleece lined bobble hat that my mum got me. Bobble hat stays on all night as well 😂)

 
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R to @patanna: It’s been about 5 days now, and he’s usually extremely stoic about illness. It’s got to be fairly serious, he hasn’t even wanted his much-longed-for Reeses Pieces advent calendar! It’s talking to me 😂

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: And we’ve done covid tests etc etc and all the Responsible Parent Things, a few close friends kids have had similar protracted periods of peakiness lately, so there’s clearly Something going around.

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: (My mum got him a Hersheys one and me the Reeses, but he threw those damn big blue eyes and ridiculous lashes at me so we swapped. And then I scoffed the entire Hersheys one in one sitting a few nights ago. It’s just a box of chocolates if you open it from the side, right? 😂)

 
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R to @jodieworld: Oh love I hope the doctor comes soon. Happy birthday to 6YO, hope he gets well swiftly and restfully x

 
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R to @eiraj2107: We spoke to doctor already (still mostly telephone appts here so been keeping notes and temp checks etc), if he’s still off school tomorrow I’ll give them a bell again. I have to be half dead to even consider calling the doctor for me, but where SBs concerned I take no chances!

 
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R to @jodieworld: Me too. I never thought I’d say this but I actually miss the sheer endless babbling tornado of NOISE 😂

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: PS thanks fellow night owls & insomniacs for keeping me company while I lay here - these wee chats help keep my anxiety in check and stop the head from rattling. It’s why I keep coming back - there’s a lovely community around us & it’s 1000x more potent than any troll poison. 🥰

 
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It’s a good job this is a king size bed, because the very large dog has come to keep an eye on me while I keep an eye on the sick 12 year old. Impatiently waiting for the cat to get here so I can do the ‘Grandpa Joe, Grandma Josephine, Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina’ gag.

 
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R to @Heather18901555: Sometimes, like now, I simply pick it all up and fling it back over the fence at them. Like a very patient, precise, vengeful little chimpanzee. 🐒

 
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R to @amethystbeeble: I tend to use it as a list of ‘good decent people to definitely follow on this here Twitter’ (and then block the oddball that’s behind it)

 
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