Just needed to be heard for a little while

heartbreak_star

Code, I feel your pain with that - the aircon here is currently at 23C, I am in jersey trousers and a cap sleeved top hoping I'm not sweating too much, and there are people wearing scarves in the office...

HBS x

codemonkey

Ok I feel guilty again. Just got a phone call asking me to go and give blood today as blood stocks are low. I can't make it and now I feel really bad.

lostinrates

You know, I don't think WaS's story is ready to be written yet. Its no where near reached its conclusion!


I seem back on a normal time frMe today. My body definitely switches off more when I am menstruating. I guess it takes a lot of effort, lol.

On the plus side this was an easy one for me. Maybe after we were all moaning my body decided to take it easy. In fact, I know why. Its because I ate more than usual over Christmas. When I gain weight my periods are less painful. When I lose weight they are very, very painful that month though when I am lighter and a constant weight everything is better than heavy and a constant weight.

codemonkey

I think it may be a saga. Definitely a happy ending though, as she finds an online family and goes to live in the highlands with her pet sloth, several pugs and the fairies.

Waves_and_Smiles

I just spluttered tea all over the keyboard, that is so me!

My teacher friend told me to start writing this book when I was 16, it has been 30 years and so far all I have managed to do is transcribe my diaries from the ages of 13-15. It's embarrassing. He did say there should be more than one book, the first covering my childhood, the second covering what came next with my degree, working and then diagnosis leading to stability, and finally a book about where that led with me with all the different therapies and medical treatments, going through to the present day. I contemplate all of that and go off to rock in the corner. There is absolutely no excuse for not transcribing my diaries all the way up to the age of 18, though other than they are brutally honest and there are parts of them that I really don't want to be reminded of.

Not your fault about the blood giving, code! You are wonderful for giving any in the first place. I tried years ago and they just noted all of my conditions and medications and looked at me in horror.

DUKE

Couldn't the diaries be the book WaS? I've read diary type material before & found it easier going as you can just dip in & out.

Oh Lord I had mares last night that I was being throttled to death, thrice it happened & woke me up! :eek: Perhaps I was snoring again.

Off for mammogram later.

Pyxis

Duke well, you're half right! Something is going to be throttled when you go for your mammogram! :rotfl:

codemonkey wrote: »

Ok I feel guilty again. Just got a phone call asking me to go and give blood today as blood stocks are low. I can't make it and now I feel really bad.

No need for guilt! Wouldn't be much point in risking an accident to go and give blood, and then needing to receive blood!

lostinrates wrote: »

You know, I don't think WaS's story is ready to be written yet. Its no where near reached its conclusion!

All actors etc do Part1, Part2,Part3 etc. I think Justin Bieber's done a biography!

codemonkey wrote: »

I think it may be a saga. Definitely a happy ending though, as she finds an online family and goes to live in the highlands with her pet sloth, several pugs and the fairies.

Don't forget the tapir!

Actually, WaS, I can see it would be a big trigger for you to do the earlier stages.
Didn't your teacher friend say he'd write it?



Ps. Don't forget to print off this thread!

Waves_and_Smiles

Good luck for mammogram, Duke!

My teacher friend says all I have to do is copy the diaries into an email for him. I am not to worry about anything else and he will make them readable which he has done a very good job of with the first 3 years worth. The problem is writing them out. I am at the stage when my tolerance was running out and I was beginning to be very honest in therapy, I recorded everything that happened and my every thought about it. It does portray a very real account of what I went through and it is interesting watching me grow up but it isn't easy to read it all again. I keep wanting to reach into the diaries and save little me, as well as cringing at just how emotionally disturbed I was as a teenager.

My teacher friend doesn't feel that anything is needed but the diaries for the first book, he feels they explain everything and all I would need to do is a few pages of a forward to explain the setting. I disagree because I can't imagine why anyone would want to read me blathering on for 5 years but then again I may be unfairly biased.

Pyxis

Have you got a scanner? Then you could simply scan them in, page by page and then email them. You wouldn't have to type them out then!

Solarjunkie

WaS, I've been thinking about what you said about WaSp, how he has tools but little chance to use them. Coming from a family of engineers I know how frustrating that can be. Presumably his life is a little less manic these days, now MIL's care is better organised.
So what about him? Have you heard of http://www.menssheds.org.uk/

or http://www.remap.org.uk/

or is there a volunteer bureau local to you that would be delighted to have such a useful volunteer to help people out for a couple of hours a week? My MIL had to pay an electrician recently to change a bulb for her. Kindly, he only charged her £20, not his usual minimum £60 fee. Just an example of the kind of thing that volunteer bureaux get asked to help with, there are many people who would be delighted to have a visit from a kind man bearing a screwdriver! Said kind man would probably enjoy the camaraderie of a volunteer organisation, it seems to me from what you've said about him.

And the volunteers I know always seem to arrive back home with cake. Now there's a bonus!