Belated Welcome, Shavtay2007

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Belated Welcome, Shavtay2007
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Tue, 03-20-2007 - 10:32am

Hi Tziporah,


I am so sorry that this is such a belated welcome to you. I've been absent from the board for nearly a month - so many things have been happening in my life that it was difficult to also come here. The good news is that life has somewhat calmed down (but I'm still crossing my fingers and my toes), which means that I'm back on iVillage.


I am so very happy to see you here, participating and sharing in our conversations! I hope that we'll get to know each other better in the coming weeks.


Welcome again!


(PS: I love the sound of your name!)


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Tue, 04-26-2011 - 12:10pm
Hello, Amy, The name of the book is: Celebrating Moms and Motherhood. (it has entries about mothers and grandmothers. Mine is about my grandmothers and is called: "The Wedding Gifts.". I wrote it when I was a lot happier than I am right now. The editor is Donna Kozik. Tziporah
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Tue, 04-26-2011 - 3:11pm
Thanks Tziporah, I'll definitely look for it.

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Wed, 04-27-2011 - 12:48am
Hi Amy, When I got up this morning, I got an email notifying me that I'm also going to be in the third edition of this gratitude book project--it's called: The Best of Pets, and is slated for release at the end of the summer. I'm mentioning it here, not in order to boast, but because I was really in a very irritated, edgy mood when I woke up. Not feeling much better than last night. I also have a dentist appointment this morning. I had root canal before the Passover holiday and am scheduled to start work on two crowns soon. The area where the work was done is quite painful and the dentist fit me in. The pain has been irritating me for the last few days, along with everything else. So, when I read this email about my contribution being accepted, it was just enough to lift my spirits a drop. A small success. Funny thing, though, I haven't told Shabtai about it. He's not really cool on pets for religious reasons. (Most very Orthodox Jews don't have dogs. If they do have pets, which is not that common, they are usually fish, birds, and occasionally cats, but very seldom dogs. It's a bit complicated why that is--so don't ask me to explain it). I'm sure he would be happy knowing I got myself published. But I'm afraid he'll think the entry I wrote is stupid. It has to do with our pet dog when I was growing up. My family isn't as strict as my husband and I are in observances. Well, I just wrote to share this little piece of brightness in an otherwise darkish kind of mental state. Tziporah
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Wed, 04-27-2011 - 9:05am
Oh that's excellent Tziporah, a great pick me up! :)

I hope the dentist will be able to help alleviate the pain you're feeling today while he works on your mouth.... that would be enough to iritate me quite a bit too.

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Wed, 04-27-2011 - 3:29pm

Hi Tziporah,

I'm feeling really tired today.

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Wed, 05-04-2011 - 8:44am
Hi Everybody, I have no idea what message I'm replying to. Just reloggied in and pressed a link. At least I know my message appears at the top or bottom of the list, depending on which way you look at it. A lot happening. Good news. Elevator finally arrrived. It's in the apartment room where the door leads, but it still has to be assembled. Some things have to be finished on the ground before it can be put in. We also made the last payment--very glad that's done. A lot of relief from pressure. The second book in the Gratitude Book Project is also out now on Amazon and elsewhere. You may recall that I have a contribution in that one. So those are the good things. Went to my new psycho.doc yesterday for the second time. The last time I was there, in late Feb., she wanted to switch me from paxxil to efecsor. she had taken me off paxxil and i had a bad withdrawal, so she had put me back on mg10. When I went yesterday, she said I had misunderstood her. I shouldn't have stayed at that dose for as long as I have, but tried again to make the switch sooner. she told me to start taking the mg75 of efecsor with mg5 of paxxil for a week, then eliminate the paxxil, stay athe mg75 of the new pill a second week and then try going up to the higher dose--double that amount. one thing she said, which impressed me, was that she said, "i'm not a pill-pusher. I know you have a therapist, but I have to do some therapy with you too." about my therapist, which I think I wrote you all about, that I think he wants to terminate, she said it's possible that he's discouraged because of the lack of progress, or that he senses I'm discouraged, or that perhaps it really is time to switch to a different approach in therapy. she said, however, right now, when I'm so depressed, it's very hard to know what to do. she said, "you're the boss. you have to decide." great. how am I supposed to know what to do? anyway, I have a session with my t. tomorrow, Thursday, the first since the Passover break. I really haven't missed not having therapy, but on the other hand, I'm not doing anything in the way of moving forward--exdrcise routine sstopped, not working on my website. saw another really good movie on youtube: Front of the Class, about this guy who has Tourette's Syndrome and how he became a teacher in spite of it. it is also a book. have any of you seen it? well, the thing I liked about it: it wasn't mushy, like a lot of these kinds of movies are. very realistic and yet very positive and upbeat. when I watch it I get into a good mood. the other thing, which is probably the more significant, is that he talks about his disability and refers to it as his "constant companion" and how it has been his best teacher. I could really relate to that, the "constant companion" thing--because my blindness is really like that. just that I never thought of it that way before. there were also issues in the movie about his relationship to his parents. that i could also relate to. anyway, it's worth watching. still, i know i should be doing my other stuff, like coaching, and I still don't really want to. this psych.doc said not to even think about that now. really, i have to tell you, when i was sitting there, i really felt like crying, but controlled myself. i haven't felt this bad in quite awhile. she said to email her when I have an argument with my husband. I've been really nasty of late--he's really had it. he even said so. considering how patient and tolerant he is, I think you can guess how hard it's been. every time something breaks down, even minor things, I go bolistic. last night, I was depressed about the financial situation. we stoppped having Sabbath guests because we couldn't afford it. we really didn't save anything by doing that. all the money we would have, could have, saved went for other things--a lot of it for Shabtai's mother's therapy and a lot for house repairs. that just threw me into more despair. of course, it could be argued, that if we had continued to have guests, we would have been even worse off than we are now financially, so maybe it was a savings. there's other stuff i could write about, but i guess that's enough for now. Tziporah
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Wed, 05-04-2011 - 2:58pm

Hi Tziporah,

It sounds like you are really struggling emotionally right now.

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Sun, 05-08-2011 - 12:06am
Hi Karen, That is absolutely awesome--the car trip home from Illinois. How long did it take? I mean, how much time? Thank G-d, you didn't experience a tornado. The news of how it hit the South sounded so horrible--can't even imagine it. Have you ever experienced a tornado? Since I was born in New Jersey, I did experience a few hurricanes, but tornados aren't something that occurs in that part of the U.S. I experienced my first earthquake here in Israel. I knew exactly what it was when it happened--like your hand shaking from side to side, except it wasn't my hand that was shaking, but everything around me--the table, the floor, etc. Actually, I was quite calm at the time. Nobody has ever been killed in earthquakes here, but people have had their windows broken, pictures hanging on walls fall down, etc. Sometimes you can get flash floods in the desert regions here that can wash away cars and people in seconds. So those can really be dangerous. I'm glad you've found a good place to live in Il. I'm sure that's a relief. As for myself, I started on the efexor together with a reduced dose of paxxil, which I'm supposed to keep taking till a week has passed, and then eliminate the Paxxil. I haven't had any side effects yet, which I guess is a good sign. Still very confused about a lot of things. What I should be doing, etc. I emailed my therapist and the psych.doc, (who gave me her email address), asking each one to contact the other. I hope that will come about. My t. said I should just take a break from the coaching thing. Trouble is, I'm always taking a break from it. One good thing happened last week. I got the copy of the second Gratitude Book Project, Celebrating Moms and Motherhood. It was such a good feeling reading my entry from the book itself. Well, it's the top of the week. Will see how it goes. Tziporah
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Mon, 05-09-2011 - 1:18pm

Hi Tziporah,

The car trip took me two days.

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Mon, 05-09-2011 - 10:33pm
Hi Karen, Glad you're home safe. Sounds like an awesome trip. If I didn't have someone to talk to, I'd probably just have the radio on the whole time. Whenever I used to go to a new place, the first thing I always did was turn on the local radio. If gave me a feel for the part of the country I was in. I did that when we went to Pittsburgh for Shabtai's kidney transplant in 1988, when I visited my grandmother in Miami Beach, and when I came to Israel. I also did it in Maine when I was at music camp in 1968, but the radio was non-existent there. laugh. In Pittsburgh, at night, when the sun wasn't out, I could sometimes pick up stations in Chicago and Georgia. I don't know why that is, but at night because of the absence of the sun, you can pick up radio stations that are geographically quite far away from where you are sitting. As for me, you are right. I really don't enjoy the successes. I think you are right that part of it is that I'm not getting paid for it. But even when I occasionally do get paid for something, I only enjoy it minimally. Like, "Oh, yeah, this time I got paid, but it was such a small amount it's not really worth anything." My t. has been trying to get me to enjoy my successes for years. I have a therapy session on Thursday and have no idea what we're going to talk about.Actually, I do, but it just feels like I've said it all before, about a thousand billion times already, if you what I mean. As for the meds, I am doing okay with them. No bad reactions. Yesterday, after a very long time not doing so, worked on my website. But generally feeling bored and discouraged and dissatisfied. Went to see this dietician. I really doubt if her regime is going to help. I'm finding it very hard changing my eating habits, which she said weren't helping me in the weight department. Tziporah
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