Poll: Hospital Visits
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Poll: Hospital Visits
| Thu, 03-09-2006 - 1:08am |
How many hospital visits have you guys all had, if you don't mind saying? I don't mind saying that I believe it's been 14 for me over 13 years (not evenly distributed- there were spans of years I didn't go at all)
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Beth "Petrouchka"

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8 over almost 5 years apparently...this is what they told me this last time i was i/p.
ugh
My H has been once in the 15 yrs I've known him. Should have been this past fall & I've been close to trick him in many times. I do believe his mother took him once while he was a teen - but his story there is vague and changes, but there have been some hints of it.
....missy, why would your H talk you out of it?
"Only when we are sick of our sickness shall we cease to be sick."
~ Lao-Tzu, from The Tao Te Cheng
3 inpatient, 2 day programs--
it's not convenient..they can't take time off...it's a "luxury we can't afford" as my h used to say...or look in the insurance book & get help..that's all you need.
whatever.
not everyone "gets it"
i have only been hospitalized once in my 12 year marraige & it's b/c the bottom fell out of 2 years worth of inexcusable behavior & the fact that i finally scared the **** out of him.
nor do i think it was even his decision to put me in the hospital.it was my mother's.
i was on the phone complaining bout h & i guess it wasn't out of my system.that question just brought it all to the top.
cause he's an idiot.
I have never been in the hospital either. I was dx'd last May but I know I have been bp...just didnt know what to call it till recently....since about 11 or 12. I was never on meds till this year, but I know I should have gone i/p like a bizillion times...and probably 2 or 3 since I have been dx'd but I have dealt with it for so long that it doesnt seem strange to me, the pyschosis and depression and all that are just a part of life now, so I just deal with it, not thinking I should tell pdoc or do anything different.
Rebekah
Has your dh been talking to mine? LOL. Said a lot of the same stuff.
Also said "What will you tell people". Apparently that I needed help was not enough.
suzie & missy,
Oh I feel for you! I don't know why I've never felt the stigma with this illness. To me an illness is an illness & you do what needs to be done. I remember one time I was throwing up blood for an entire day & my mom wouldn't take me to the hospital. I'm guessing it was my ulcer flaring up, who knows, but it's something I could never forgive my mother for even though everything turned out alright. Oh - one time when I was about 4 I cut my knee pretty bad - should have had stitches. My mom told me the hospitals were not opened on Sunday's. So my sister did what she could to mend it on her own. Pretty ugly scar & grateful it didn't get infected. Yip, 30 yrs later I remember that day well.
What if you lost your life? How would 'he' deal with it then??? Do your H's know about NAMI? Are they educated at all? Could you take them to one of your pdoc meetings & have the doc explain what is going on in the frontal lobe to let them know this is not a personality flaw??
Yikes, okay, I getting a little upset now. I was upset with my H's work treating him as such, but your own spouse?? Have you thought of ways to sit down & chat?
My philosophy....
Education is Understanding
Understanding is Forgiving
Sorry if I've upset either of you.
Bonnie
"Only when we are sick of our sickness shall we cease to be sick."
~ Lao-Tzu, from The Tao Te Cheng
I have been i/p 7 times. 2 times after i/p I went to a day program for 3 weeks. The day programs helped a lot.
I had other times I should have went but fought through not to go...who wants to go i/p, right?
Tina
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