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| Sat, 05-27-2006 - 5:42am |
things have been insanely busy, I had finals then the kids had projects and end of the year parties and all that stuff and I have been sick from med changes and everything else, so its been insanely busy around here and I have been insanely manic.
First off HI!! to all the new girls here. I havent gotten to know any of you yet, but I have read some of your posts and hopefully I will get to know you soon. The rest of this post is just an update on whats going on with me.
I ended up with straight A's for the semester!!! Go me! We put the kids in Quran classes. The imam said that J.J. can become a hafiz within 3 years. A hafiz is a person who memorizes the whole Quran and can recite it in Arabic verbatim by heart. Its 114 chapters long. So imagine a 10 year old who read and memorized 114 chapters of the Bible in another language and thats kinda what its about. Its a huge deal to memorize it at all, and to do it before 13 is amazing, and he just started learning Arabic this year, so thats even more amazing. Its so big that we promised if him or Abby did it, we would buy them cars when they got their license. So I am super proud of him for that and Abby is doing great too, she knows about 3/4 as much as he knows and is 18 months younger, so shes right up there with him in it. They both got straight A's for the last report card. Abby got her ears pierced yesterday, shes 6, and she didnt even cry. She is so tough!
I have seen pdoc 3 times in the last 6 weeks and had 2 med changes. First was abilify, it made my heart beat funny adn I felt like I had the flu. Now she has me on depakote, I took it for the first time last night, and it didnt help me sleep like she said it would but im on the lowest dose right now so maybe it will later. So my meds are 1200mg lithium, 200mg lamictal, 60mg paxil, .25 xanax as needed, depakote 1000mg after a few days and then I go back again in 2 weeks to check out the effects of the depakote.
I set up a tdoc appt. with the same tdoc that Abby is seeing, she is the only person I trust enough to talk to openly. So hopefully that will help. DH is being soooooo extremely wonderful to me lately that it makes me feel so much better with everything. I got a part time volunteer job one day a week too. Basically I sit in an office all day and wait for people to come in and then help them fill out public assistance applications for state assistance and then give them help with referrals to other agencys and such. They are waiting on grants so that it can become a paid position, if it becomes paid and I can handle it I will up my days to 2 days a week. THe best thing is that its at the mosque resource center which is exactly 1 mile from my new house, across the street from the kids school...so I can WALK to work and WALK the kids to school. I have to call and get them to put in sidewalks, but then things will be perfect.
So anyways, Im manic as hell and this is whats going on.
I love all of you and hope you are all doing well.
Rebekah
Ps. Keli, email me your new number will ya? I kept wondering why you never answered the phone, I was like wtf? I love you


Hi Rebekah,
My name is Peg and I am pretty new here (first posted about 2 weeks ago).
Congratulations on the straight A's! That's wonderful! What type of courses are you taking?
It sounds like your kids are amazing! They sound like the are doing great in school. It also seems like they have great memories...memorizing 114 chapters in 3 years is incredible.
Abby is brave to get her ears pierced...we tried to get dd's pierced, she saw a baby get it done and scream so she changed her mind. She's only 3 so we have a while to keep trying.
Sorry to hear that you are struggling with med changes. I only started meds about 2 months ago. I only use antidepressants right now but I'm sure if I every make a pdoc appt that will change ;-).
Good luck with the new tdoc. At least you know her and are comfortable talking to her...that makes all the difference.
Your job sounds perfect! Being able to walk to work and be right across the street from the kids' school is great. I love knowing I am right down the street from my ds' school. That changes next school year, though, because we bought a school and are now moving across town. I will miss not being down the street from ds; I've had to run to his school on more than one occasion and now it won't be so easy.
Anyway, "hi". I hope you are feeling better with the med changes soon and take it easy...try to find something relaxing to help you "come down"...does my advice count if it is coming from someone who is either rapic cycling or in a mixed state herself??? Like I should talk...
Peg
Rebekah it's good to ph"see" you again. And it's great to hear that you and your kids are doing so well with school! Straight A's all the way around is awesome!
As for your med changes, the depakote may need to be increased, as that is a low dosage. But until you see pdoc again, try taking a xanax (if you haven't already) to help induce sleep. If you've tried that, maybe try some herbal tea like sleepy time put out by celestial seasons or tension tamers. A friend of mine recommended them to me when my pharmacy of meds wasn't cutting it as far as sleep went. The sleepy time extra was what did the trick for me. It gave me that extra gentle push I needed that meds were just falling short of to get me to sleep. Now, of course, I'm at the opposite end the spectrum and need something to help keep me awake. I don't know if it's depression rearing its ugly head or a combination of all these heavy hitter drugs I'm on; or a mixture of both, but I'm sleeping
Hey girl !!!
I'm so proud of you !!!
God could not be everywhere, so