Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Wednesday October 21, 2009

I am not writing as often as I planned.  I seem to be walking around in a fog a lot.  I have been really good about getting up and exercising, then the day seems to get lost.  I sleep a lot.  Probably too much, but that may be better than not sleeping.  Today I was up from 4 to 6 then back down from 6 to 9 then back down from 4 to 6.  I never feel really sleepy, just not able to motivate myself to do much of anything else.  I went for my first appointment with a clinical psychologist.  Don't really have an opinion yet, except it is a positive move.  It was hard to go, I almost blew it off a couple of times.  But thanks to Don he got me there and home to bed.

Why is this so hard?  I think because I am afriad.  What if I go to see this psychologist and I don't get any better?  What if I am doomed to be unhappy?  What if this is as good as it gets?  Why do I expect so much more?  I have little hope.  Hope is a rare thing for me.  I can't even escape into a TV show.  Don is watching football.  I hate football.  I think I will go to bed.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

A New Day

I started this Blog a long time ago, but couldn't get past the beginning.  I changed focus and started "Thirteen Life Changing Events", a blog I convinced myself was a research project around the events in my life I needed to ramble about.  Conducting a research project allowed me to address heart breaking events from my past from a safe position, removed.  So now that I have written the first research project on child abuse, I feel free to write some more personal paragraphs.  This will simply be a journal of day to day events, written for myself as a reminder that I am OK.

Monday, October 5, 2009

I went to see Dr. Tallman today.  He is the best Doctor I have ever been to.  His medical profession is Neurologist and I have been seeing him for years for migraine headaches.  This time he walked into the examination room and asked me how I was doing and I replied "not well".  I told him of my journey over the past few months to journal about my past in a process to get over it.  I told him of my accidently running out of pills and then not taking them anymore.  I told him I was in a great deal of pain, not able to function, not wanting to live, boo hoo for me.

He is a gentle man, and never in too much of a hurry to talk.  After telling me of his adventures in Cuba and addressing the UT doctorial class in entreparneurship on careers in medicine, he requested that I consider taking medication to increase my seratonin levels, I said OK and I am feeling better in just 3 days.  Still not sleeping much, but not crying either.

Another decision I want to share with myself is, "I don't have the ability to care for my grandchildren by myself."  I can't handle the responsibility for more than a few hours.  I realized this and shared it with my sons after the fiasco with Chad's children.  4 nights of trying to keep up with their obsence schedule was too much.

I am starting on an adventure today.  I am juicing again.  Lots of Kale, ginger, carrots and apples.  My goal is to lower my colestorale and help with the depression.

Wish me luck