Miss Me?

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Registered: 12-20-2009
Miss Me?
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Sun, 01-03-2010 - 8:10pm

Hi everyone,

Not to insinuate that anyone should be missing me just yet (since I'm very new here!), but for a few of you who are on here so regularly, I wanted to at least let you know I'm still hangin' in there.

The holidays turned out to be a bit rougher than I expected as I had another terrible reaction to a pain med that the doctor decided to have me try (without going into too much detail, I have a headache 24/7 for reasons no doctor can seem to figure out; the headaches get worse to the point of migraine a couple times a month). I ended up in bed for a week, initially thinking it was the flu because so much of what was wrong was flu-like. But, it started the day after Xmas and I had increased the pain med, as prescribed, on Xmas day, so after a week of being practically comatose, my husband put two and two together and we decided it was probably the med (it had happened once before when I increased another med a couple months ago). So... I stopped the med and POOF! two days later I'm back to my old, headachey (but functional) self.

Also... Heidi, I did get your email message and replied, but haven't seen any reply back, so not sure if you got my response or ?
Deb, right after you said you couldn't get my email to work, I sent you an email from my email so you'd have my email (just seein' how many times I can write "email" in one sentence - LOL) - but I didn't get a reply back, so wasn't sure if you received it.
Josie and everyone else wonderful enough to reply to my "first ever" post a couple weeks ago - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Stacey

When you do something for someone else, you create meaning in your own life as well as theirs. What you give you get to keep. What you fail to give you lose forever.

Stacey When you do something for someone else, you create meaning in your own life as well as theirs. What you give you get to keep. What you fail to give you lose forever.

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Registered: 08-07-2007
In reply to: staceyboothe1964
Thu, 01-07-2010 - 2:49pm

I can relate to over reacting sometimes, there are days when I do the same thing.

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Registered: 12-20-2009
In reply to: staceyboothe1964
Thu, 01-07-2010 - 2:51pm

Hi,

Just havin' a tough time facing the fact that most of my friends have "moved on." I really can't hold a job with such bad head pain (not exactly headaches - my whole skull hurts most of the time), so that is often a source of sadness for me. I really miss the talking, joking, and having lunch with co-workers. I worked downtown Indianapolis, so I also loved going to the parks, shopping, taking walks, and people watching on my lunch hours. Get to feeling very left behind and lonesome lots of days. This combined with the pain, my depression, and ups and downs of bipolar II that aren't quite controlled by the meds I take (tho they help immensely) make it tougher for me to deal on some days.

Thank you for responding to my post. =) It helped to know that you heard me and cared to post back.

((hugs))

Stacey

When you do something for someone else, you create meaning in your own life as well as theirs. What you give you get to keep. What you fail to give you lose forever.

Stacey When you do something for someone else, you create meaning in your own life as well as theirs. What you give you get to keep. What you fail to give you lose forever.
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Registered: 12-20-2009
In reply to: staceyboothe1964
Thu, 01-07-2010 - 2:54pm

Thanks Heidi,

I appreciate you saying so. =) Helps to know you think so; I really do try to be helpful, it just doesn't seem to make much difference some days and that's really sad and frustrating to me. I'm guessing you understand, with the volunteer work you do, that some days just seem to be kind of a set back rather than a move forward in the right direction (does that make sense?).

I'll keep posting, k? =)

Thanks again for your words of encouragement.

Stacey

When you do something for someone else, you create meaning in your own life as well as theirs. What you give you get to keep. What you fail to give you lose forever.

Stacey When you do something for someone else, you create meaning in your own life as well as theirs. What you give you get to keep. What you fail to give you lose forever.

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