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I feel you're really struggling Em. I'm concerned for you...

 

Please know we are all here for you. 

Love you lots precious @Emelia8 🌷💕🌷

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Hello @Emelia8  , @Anastasia , @Clawde , @Eve7 , @Peri , @NatureLover , @outlander 

and other members visiting this thread

 

A short note to let you know that I am taking a little quiet time in the back seat at the moment. While I will always be pleased to respond to tags and offer support where I can, I will not be so active, otherwise, for a while. I simply need to recover some stability and possibly direction in my own space at the moment.

 

Not so much a formal "Away Time" but more a time for review and consolidation

 

With Best Wishes to You All

@HenryX 

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Take care @HenryX 

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Hoping that today is a little easier for you @Emelia8  💕

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Thinking of you emelia

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@Emelia8 

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 Thought of you and sending a gentle breeze your way.

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Thank you everyone. Its hard going right now. So I appreciate your kind thoughts.

 

@Appleblossom @Peri @Bow @Eve7 @HenryX @outlander @Anastasia @Zoe7 @Clawde @Bunniekins @TAB @Faith-and-Hope @Shaz51 @BlueBay @NatureLover 

 

Still in the MH ward of my local hospital. I am very lucky in that we have a very good private facility here, which is well resourced. People from larger towns in the area come here too, because it is considered one of the best in the area.

 

Its just ... hard. Harder than it aught to be after so long. I seem to have been encountering random triggers a lot the past couple of weeks. Not overly surprising I guess, given that the anniversary of my main trauma was last week.

 

But I am being well looked after here, which is nice. And unlike when I was in rehab wing, you are not woken up all night long or early morning with obs being done.

 

Speaking of which ... my family, neighbours, etc do not know I am now in MH unit. To tell them that, would mean I would need to explain why. And I cannot tell them that. 

 

But I think they are beginning to wonder why I am still in hospital 4 weeks after surgery. Mind you, I am still doing the rehab program and being supervised by rehab Dr. And they still have not got pain under control. But I am officially admitted under the psychiatrist for the past 2 weeks.

 

And it looks now, as if I will be here for another week, through to next Friday.

 

Sorry everyone for not being on your threads much. I am reading, but rarely posting. I am being kept busy here, which is a good thing. Groups are on usually all morning, including weekends. Physio gym sessions early arvo and physio hydro pool sessions early arvos, including weekends. So there really is little time for idle minds. I hope you are all as okay as possible. 💖 I am feeling a bit out of touch I''m afraid. A little lost. Perhaps the changing of ADs is having an impact on that. Still weaning off one, and increasing another.

 

Emelia 🌷

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@Emelia8  dearest em  thank you for including pea in your post, Like you I am preoccupied with troubles. Thinking of you and knowing you are in the best place (hospital) possible to help you. Love always pea😘

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I was wondering that you were still in hospital @Emelia8  thanks for filling us in.. 

Just get better I guess and deal with neighbours later, perhaps say there were complications or tell them the truth or something inbetween .. sounds a bit like me and parents, I got 'what would people think' drummed into me over childhood lol

Anyway, yes can understand feeling isolated in my ok 4 days in hosp last year I could have lived there at some stages, at others was pestering people to get out, well mainly because was told a day , then plan would change etc

Isolated prob good these days, I've let all bad news flowing around get to me.. 

maybe get some magazines and/or books?

I used to look forward to tea trolley and meals, even if they were a bit ordinary sometimes lol, but they would always get me a sandwich to top up if I asked lol >Guess that's me.

Understand re not posting. I seem to be a bit flitty on here sometimes, but I forget tbh, can have good chat with someone then think about it later then bit by by bit it goes away. Well at least it happened I guess 

Hope there are some good bits in your day @Emelia8 😊

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Hi @Emelia8 

 

Would you feel safe to tell friends and neighbours that you are undergoing some grief counselling while you are in hospital ?  It is part of the MH reach, and would come as no surprise considering the compounded losses you have suffered.  It might be a way to deflect any other speculation, which is something I have found helpful in the past.

 

Hugs n hugs Hon 💐💞