Please pray for David P. L., who is in pre-op for kidney stone removal, and is nervous but hopeful.
Also please pray for my own stress, fear, and depression, all related to the fascist hellscape these monsters in the US are trying to create. I think it’s why I keep wanting to sleep all the time. When some part of you knows you’re going to wake up to *that*, it makes it harder just to deal with the day.
Please pray for David P. L., who is in pre-op for kidney stone removal, and is nervous but hopeful.
Also please pray for my own stress, fear, and depression, all related to the fascist hellscape these monsters in the US are trying to create. I think it’s why I keep wanting to sleep all the time. When some part of you knows you’re going to wake up to *that*, it makes it harder just to deal with the day.
Prayers for you ChastMastr and all in great anxiety, concern, etc in the circumstances they find themselves in.
Hope V is recovering well, Nicole.
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Just an update. Thank you again for all your prayers and words which are humbling to me, and appreciated.
I was transferred to a clinic in a city about an hour south from emergency yesterday afternoon. They want to monitor me while medication changes take effect.
My manager was very understanding. I, with her approval, sent a message to the other SLSOs (teacher assistants) with a brief explanation of my illness (bipolar). Have received messages of support and encouragement which I'm thankful for. I did my placement there last term and work 1 day a week this term while studying (we have 4 school terms per year here) so, being relatively new and still learning the kind responses were an encouragement. My TAFE (technical college) main teacher also was kind and granted me an extension past the course end date (April).
Better today so far: 9:23 AM at the moment and I am awake having coffee and I am going to completely steer clear of the Internet before breakfast. I’m just not going to start the browser or look at my mail.
11:14 am. Success! I avoided the internet and any news at all and am now going to have breakfast at a local Greek diner, Papa’s New York Diner. Today I will get a few groceries, and ideally catch up on grading. Going to be careful about news exposure.
Better today so far: 9:23 AM at the moment and I am awake having coffee and I am going to completely steer clear of the Internet before breakfast. I’m just not going to start the browser or look at my mail.
11:14 am. Success! I avoided the internet and any news at all and am now going to have breakfast at a local Greek diner, Papa’s New York Diner. Today I will get a few groceries, and ideally catch up on grading. Going to be careful about news exposure.
So pleased .... PTL! Beware a counter attack from you-know-who.
Love and hugs!
Would you folks be so kind as to pray for my pain? It's chronic and being treated, but the levels have shot up AGAIN, and nothing is touching it. It kinda sucks.
Would you folks be so kind as to pray for my pain? It's chronic and being treated, but the levels have shot up AGAIN, and nothing is touching it. It kinda sucks.
Slept for three hours. Woke up feeling not great. Canceled my zoom class for Tuesday and ordered Chinese soups. Going to take care of myself and also try to catch up on grading Tuesday.
Good news, but with some side effects: My foot wound is actually better today according to Wound Care. What I’ve been doing has been putting the weight on the other side of my foot, and that seems to have helped. However, this seems to be why I’ve been having excruciating pain in the area
between my groin and my thigh on that side, which appears to be a pulled muscle/tendon/etc. Since I’ve had this foot wound since last May (!) and it needs to heal, I’ll keep it up, but please pray. Lots of pain noises and swearing. But the wound has been sitting there staying the same the last few weeks, until today, and I’m really eager for it to finally finish healing. (The remaining open part is about the size of a US dime or nickel. It was about 2/3-3/4 of my foot back when it happened…)
Please pray for my partner K, in hospital in North Carolina, far from home in Chicago and even farther from me in England. He is awaiting surgery for diverticulitis which has had him in agony for several days.
Please pray for my partner K, in hospital in North Carolina, far from home in Chicago and even farther from me in England. He is awaiting surgery for diverticulitis which has had him in agony for several days.
10:57 pm. They’re sending me to the hospital. There is some necrosis (don’t panic)! Just got back from a CAT scan. Once those results are back they will send me to one. I hope I’m there very briefly.
My friend Greg will help with things as needed—at the moment I don’t know if it will be just overnight or longer. If longer, he’ll need to feed my cats and bring me stuff and so on.
Praying for @ChastMastr and @ThunderBunk's partner that their medical problems are promptly sorted and that they will speedily be on the road to recovery.
On the plus side, the doctor says the “putting my weight on the side of my foot to keep pressure off of my foot wound so it heals” is entirely coincidental to the abscess, which means I can keep doing that to get that foot healing faster. He says the abscess was likely an ingrown hair or the like.
At 1 am on my birthday today I got a call from my brother's nursing home that they were sending him to the hospital ER. It turns out he has pancreatitis and a UTI, he's in the ICU. I didn't need this on my birthday. Please pray for him, and for me.
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Also please pray for my own stress, fear, and depression, all related to the fascist hellscape these monsters in the US are trying to create. I think it’s why I keep wanting to sleep all the time. When some part of you knows you’re going to wake up to *that*, it makes it harder just to deal with the day.
Sad news, and remembering you.
David P. L.’s procedure went well, thank God.
Prayers for you ChastMastr and all in great anxiety, concern, etc in the circumstances they find themselves in.
Hope V is recovering well, Nicole.
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Just an update. Thank you again for all your prayers and words which are humbling to me, and appreciated.
I was transferred to a clinic in a city about an hour south from emergency yesterday afternoon. They want to monitor me while medication changes take effect.
My manager was very understanding. I, with her approval, sent a message to the other SLSOs (teacher assistants) with a brief explanation of my illness (bipolar). Have received messages of support and encouragement which I'm thankful for. I did my placement there last term and work 1 day a week this term while studying (we have 4 school terms per year here) so, being relatively new and still learning the kind responses were an encouragement. My TAFE (technical college) main teacher also was kind and granted me an extension past the course end date (April).
Also for @ChastMastr and giving thanks for the news of David P. L.
For @Sarasa and all who loved T; @Telepath and the Telemum; @NicoleMR 's V; the Beaky family.
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11:14 am. Success! I avoided the internet and any news at all and am now going to have breakfast at a local Greek diner, Papa’s New York Diner. Today I will get a few groceries, and ideally catch up on grading. Going to be careful about news exposure.
So pleased .... PTL! Beware a counter attack from you-know-who.
Love and hugs!
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Chronic pain is from the devil.
Yes, it truly is. Prayers from me too
Good news, but with some side effects: My foot wound is actually better today according to Wound Care. What I’ve been doing has been putting the weight on the other side of my foot, and that seems to have helped. However, this seems to be why I’ve been having excruciating pain in the area
(Medical stuff)
Praying !!!
My friend Greg will help with things as needed—at the moment I don’t know if it will be just overnight or longer. If longer, he’ll need to feed my cats and bring me stuff and so on.