Just needed to be heard for a little while

Pyxis

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whitewing wrote: »

I would say, yes too, if only to get some advice for yourself.

Well done, WaS. Tell your DH that my son once went to nursery in fancy dress for Halloween, and couldn't hold his willy properly due to the false nails that he was insisting on wearing.

Was he dressed as a werewolf? If so, why didn't he just còck his leg? :rotfl:



Jolly well done, by the way, Whitewing, for getting your smear test done! The fear is always so much worse than the event!:T

haybel19

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

I just told my partner about the mean bus woman! He is now regaling me with tales about the misfortune of being a man and the accidents that can happen when trying to aim and not dribble afterwards! It went fine! Thank you so, so much for giving me the courage to do it.

WaS I am soso proud of you. I know it must have been hard but think he will really appreciate knowing why going out has become so difficult. I also hope that in sharing it helps you feel even the tiniest bit better about it.


Try and remember that if I had told you that story you would have been nothing but kind, compassionate and understanding. So please do try and be kind to yourself too.


I have a question bearing in mind your training do you find yourself analysing or diagnosing those you know or talk to on here? People are so incredibly fascinating I am not sure with the knowledge that I would be able to resist.

lostinrates

Well done WaS and partner.


On my 'home thread' we talked about an issues men peeing because a single mother needed to know for her son as she had no men to ask. So men answered and those of us with partners asked them.

Did any one else get impressive storms last night? They were beautiful, I love them, like WaS, but......they took our electricity with them!

Pyxis

We were forecast rain and storms, but though there was lots of lightning and you could hear thunder, it was a few miles away, and the ground was bone dry in the morning! Worse luck, as I had been counting on rain to water my garden! The lightning in the distance was impressive though!
We are forecast rain tonight, though! So might get the storms with it!

dibuzz

All we've had its a bit of rain, the storms seem to be all down south.

jobbingmusician

Such a lot of achievements today! Mouse bedding on its way, smears booked, pee stories told, and I am also a very very untidy hoarder - I cleared two surfaces today and feel SOOOOO good from it! Very very minor compared to the other two achievements - although I do feel that I was heped to declutter by this thread

About the TMI thing - on the schizophrenia.com website, which I think is really useful, it says .... oh blast, of course I can't find it now, but I saw it this morning, and it said having friends you can talk about anything with is incredibly helpful. And I think we've proved so far we can talk about anything here :rotfl: :A

Waves_and_Smiles

Replies, in a minute but first a quick whine! Another odd condition I have is a problem in the balance centre of my brain. It means I get very dizzy using stairs or stepping up and down kerbs and can't look upwards or I fall over. Today my partner showed me a video of the computer game he is playing, it has lots of swooping movements and spinning. Yep, I vomited and got travel sick. So I have just had a nap and am better now.

45 and travel sick (I am 5 really).

whitewing

WaS, is that something you have had diagnosed, and how do they do it?

ETA: I read a book about someone who had grown up blind and then regained her sight:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Hocken

I remember her saying in the book when she'd had the operation and could see that she could tell if a grassy area was a slope or not. I am wondering if it is similar to you and maybe related to the fact that you don't venture outside or if it is completely different.

Waves_and_Smiles

The diagnosis and treatment is clever, whitewing. A doctor makes you stand on a special sensitive raised plate that gives him a read-out on a screen. I cannot stand straight on it and wobble from side to side. Then they get you to look in different directions and turn around to see if the numbers move where your body doesn't naturally adjust to the different perspective.

I have had a six week treatment course (another treatment!) for it which basically involved holding a pillow out in front of me and walking towards walls whilst staring straight ahead to retrain my brain to balance properly and it has improved. Before simply walking up a slight hill would make me dizzy and sick but that is possible now. I have to keep up the exercises at home or my brain will forget how to balance as it isn't natural for it to do so. This one is a form of brain damage from birth and wasn't caused by anything since.

jobbingmusician

I have very minor problems with balance as well, WaS. I had a opportunistic infection in my left ear and can't hear anything much in that ear now. They did all sorts of tests on me, and my balance is affected as well. I do have to be quite careful going downstairs now, and feel like an old lady!

Did you do that horrid test where they put you in a sort of striped tent, and the stripes go round and round? That always makes me feel sick....