When I went in I had something planned to talk about. I wanted to talk about Destiny’s decision and about how it affects the Pride. He wanted to talk about my life from middle school to high school. I told him what I needed to talk about and then he just kind of switched gears on me and went right back to middle school. Not a pause, nothing. I said to him, “Where you waiting for me to take a breath so that you could talk about middle school?” He said, “No,” that he thought I was done so he started talking about middle school. Argh! I was done but the gear switching was just so fast that it was like, um, he was waiting for me to finish my sentence so that he could jump in with something else. It’s like talking about apples and then you take a breath and the person who’s suppose to be listening says, “Lets talk about oranges.” Um!!!!! Argh!!! I had something I needed to tell him. Continue reading ‘Therapy Discussions and Misunderstandings’
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I can’t wait to tell Dr. T about Destiny and Blossom. He said something about maybe she wouldn’t change. That’s a load of crap. Maybe he wanted Morton to step up and tell her “no” just in case she didn’t come to what we felt was the right decision. I think he meant it well. Thank goodness we are in a space to see his comment for what it was. Had we not been we might have chewed his head off. Anyway, so we will tell him about the Blossom thing and then about her coming here whatever day it was, a few days ago or yesterday. I can’t remember now. But um it turned out really good for us because Continue reading ‘Destiny and Blossom’
I was highly impressed with my new medical doctor today. This was my very first appointment with her. My old doctor moved to a new location but I didn’t go with him for several reasons. That was back in December and I’m just now getting back into the doctors office for MRI results and blood test results. The new doctor read what was written about my knees and took it as truth UNTIL I had her put her hand on my knee while I raised it slowly. She jumped back and shivered a bit. She said, “That’s nothing but bone against bone.” She trashed the idea of physical therapy because the joints are too far gone for that. I’ll be seeing an orthopedic surgeon sometime soon. I don’t know when. I suppose they’ll call me in a few days. But, I was very impressed with the fact that not only did she realize it was far past physical therapy she had me go downstairs for ex-rays on both knees and my hips, something I couldn’t get the old doctor to do. It wasn’t until I demanded tests for certain things that he gave them. And after 5 years I can tell you that I’ve had one set of x-rays on my left knee and one MRI on that same knee. The lady in the x-ray room said it shouldn’t have been allowed to deteriorate this far. Yeah, tell that to the other doctor. BUT the new doc acted right away and I’m telling you, if a doc orders x-rays the first day you see her it and after feeling bone against bone then what can you say other than, thank goodness somebody’s listening. Heck, she wasn’t even distracted by the dog. Heck yeah! I like that because though Captain My Captain is the sweetest baby in the world the doctors tend to want to pay attention to him instead of listening to me. Continue reading ‘Highly Impressed- Update’
I’m sure many are angry right now, not just at the gunman but at VT as an institution. There have got to be so many “why” questions it would take a hundred years to answer just a few. The main “why” question I’ve asked is “Why did it take two hours before the shooting stopped?” and “Why was there a delay in response from the first two killings until the other shootings started?” Two hours is a long time. Neither Virginia Tech nor the police can give a suitable answer to me but I do have a suggestion that may curb some of the deserved criticism. Offer traditional and non-traditional therapies free of charge to students and faculty that request it. It was the gunman that pulled the trigger but it was the delay that gave him time to take more and more lives. Virginia Tech, you can’t give the lives back but you can do everything in your power to do right by the survivors.
The media seems to give many details about the gunman’s life. Even though it is clear that this man had severe mental health issues I can’t say I’ll offer him my sympathies. Having a mental illness myself seems to make my heart sad for him because I know how it feels to be a prisoner of your own mind. BUT at this point the tragedy is no longer about him but about the innocent people who became victims of a disturbed man and those who watched these slayings helplessly. Continue reading ‘Questions About Virginia Tech Shootings’
I like to believe the sun rises so that I can have another chance to make my life what I want it to be. Today may not have been a good day but tomorrow can be. I have control over certain things but undeniably there are things beyond my control. The opportunity to take advantage of the things I can control and change are renewed with each day of life I’m given. I believe that when the sun rises it is a symbol that my time is not up yet. I still have options and I still have hope that I can make this life worth waking up for.
We are still very tired and still lacking sleep. We took a very long hot bath and intend to take some sleep meds because at this point we’ve had about 9 hours in the last 3 days. We aren’t staying asleep very long at all and our mind is somewhat slow at the moment. I can tell that we’re feeling the effects of sleep deprivation so tonight we’ll do something we hardly ever do, take something to sleep.We’re having a major fybro flair up. All the cat did was walk on my side and I about broke into tears it hurt so badly. You know how it feels when you stub your toe on something and it hurts so bad you can’t even scream? That was the kind of I can’t even scream or cry this hurt so bad kinda experience I had when she walked on me. I jokingly told someone that it hurts when the cats whiskers brush up against me. I hope the cat doesn’t look at me too hard it, might upset my fybro. Now there’s a fybro flair up. The cat’s whiskers cause pain and if she looks at me too hard I’ll need morphine.
I have little to say so this will be short and sweet. I won’t keep posting daily with titles such as “I have nothing to say” and things like that. If I don’t have anything to say then I just won’t post.
I should say that Maureen didn’t get Destiny’s letter before therapy but Destiny did keep her word. Our therapist is dead wrong. People change. From how we described Destiny to him he replied that perhaps Morton should step in and tell her No you can’t do this instead of letting her make her own decision in hopes that she’ll learn to see herself more as part of the group instead of how separated she feels from us at times. He said that Joan seems to feel Blossom is annoying and takes a lot of our energy away from us and then asked if Destiny feels that way too. Something in us kinda snapped, twisted a bit I’d say and out popped a young boy who said, “She don’t care, she just wants to sleep with her.” Continue reading ‘Dead Wrong’
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