Bipolar check in #45

That's wonderful! I'm happy for you. Now you can rest easy

Great! You are very lucky to have the toilet paper! Who ever thought we'd search for toilet paper and feel quite fortunate if we have some?

I love to smell brownies baking. Yum!

How is your sister? Has she recovered from not feeling well?

YES!!! I'm sorry you went through so much trying to get this sorted out.
So grateful it has paid off!

Yeah the toilet paper thing is crazy lol

Thanks for asking, she’s doing well now 🙂 I hope you’re doing okay

After lots of phone calls they sent mum to a respiratory clinic. We had to drive up to a door, wait in the car, then they came and verified who mum was, then said to wait 5 minutes then go up to the door. I had to stay in the car. Once in it was mostly like a regular check up except mum had to answer a lot of questions on a phone. Turns out she has a sinus infection that's causing post basil drip and bothering her throat. I'll pick her medicine up tomorrow morning. Whew what a lot to go though to get a doctor appointment! But alls well.

@Nammu: Obviously having a sinus infection sucks, but it's great to hear it's not something worse!

I'm so glad that you managed to get the doctors to help. It must've been frustrating dealing with all those phone calls. I don't know why things are so difficult these days. I mean, your mom tested negative for COVID-19... Sheesh.

Hope she gets better soon.

Yeah, I thought that was the whole point of the test, if she was negative then she could go. But they are practicing an abundance of caution. Oh well it's something to tell the grandkids!

omg. tomorrow is Good Friday! I'm not religious, but heck yeah! I don't have work!

I'm still stuck inside. I thought about going for a walk tomorrow, but there have been recent bear and bobcat sightings. Deer I don't care about because they aren't going to maul me to death, but yeah... not a fan of bobcats and bears.

The boost i got in my mood has either stalled or disappeared. It might be because the weather has turned bad again. We had snow today. It was very pretty tho. I enjoyed my balcony today, the wide-open view, the stunning sky. A balcony is really nice. I must make better use of it.

I had a phone appointment with my doctor. I told the joke about "better six feet apart than six feet under" and he laughed. He seemed eager to try new meds now that we've concluded the Lamictal is a dismal failure. But i've been on the meds-go-round for 30 years and have pretty much accepted that meds are only going to help and i'm still going to have mood swings. I feel this is as good as it gets so we agreed not to make any changes for now.

I was really pleased about the appointment as it happened because i called in for a prescription renewal and my doctor asked for the appointment which i thought was really caring. But i told my neighbor about it and she said he was probably getting paid for it (Canada). What a nasty thing to say! Even if it's true, why say such a negative thing?
She tends to rain on my parade. That's an awful aspect of human behavior, to want to ruin someone's joy. It's not the first time it's happened with her. I'm reluctant to confront her about it because i need her help with my dog. I haven't seen her in a couple days and i don't miss her.

I am glad they were looking out for your mom's welfare. I hope my primary care doc will do the same should I need to see him.
I hope your mom feels better right away. You are a wonderful person to be so supportive of your mom.

Well, I'm kind of anxious. Was woken up at 4am with pain under my ribs in the back. Took awhile to get back to sleep, then didn't wake up time till after 1 pm(!). At first it wasn't bothering me, then it started up again, but more in the side and front. I'm really hoping it's just some kind of muscle strain (I did a tiny bit of rearranging yesterday). It hurts quite badly. I just really don't need it to be anything requiring medical intervention both for the obvious reason and also that I already have a medical bill that I can't handle (going to arrange payments, just haven't done it yet), so yeah, keep me in your thoughts if you could, that it's nothing serious.

Meanwhile, I'm making a point of hydrating.

BeyondtheRainbow, I'm SO glad your thing FINALLY went through successfully!!!!!

And Daonnachd, that is SO cool to be working with that sculptor!!

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Mr. Robot

Makes me sick to the heart, Oh I feel so tired. And the way the rain comes down hard, that's how I feel inside.

--The Cure

My brain feels like it’s gonna snap from stress. I’ve been extremely paranoid and anxious/scared most of the day. I’m terrified and don’t know what to do. I hope it gets better. It’s been on and off the past few days. I have klonopin to take prn but I don’t know if I should take one or not

THANK GOODNESS

Keep a close eye on that pain and check your temp daily.. I also have no desire to go near anything medical..

I vote you go ahead and take one when your getting distressed like this

Thank you all. It's so good to have people who really understand what it is like to be desperate for a med and trying to doing anything to make it last.

It's funny but I'm so relieved that i can feel some of the depression I've been making myself ignore drifting up to the surface. Too bad as the Emsam won't be here for a while. I may treat myself to 2 days of new patches though. I'm fine, just noticing I've been forcing myself to ignore reality.

I do wish that the hospital were closer and psych open so I could get them a little faster but that's just the way it is.

Mostly I"m just SO RELIEVED. We need to have a party.

:Pepsi: :dancingchili: party!, *throws pillow*

Wow I got really behind on here lol

I think my husband is making a very slow improvement, hes getting very frustrated, rants on about how he was in his 20's and had walking Pnuemonia and just kept working... and then I remind him hes not 20 something anymore and hes got copd .. He usually gives me a mean look LOL

I have been keeping myself busy with stuff.. Beautiful day out, we had rain Wednesday night, so a nice break on the pollen hell season that has started too soon anyway. So I threw all the windows open.. Worked some more on my flower beds, I hope most of our plants made it through winter.

Ok so Masks ! Looks like they will be around for a while... I am certain that high end designers are going to start churning them out ! Rich people are not going to want to be seen in cheap made at home masks like the rest of us are going to be using... anyway I predict we will see them advertised soon

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

I am fine .i think nothing about future.i am reading michio kaku.i am watching an anime called death note. I am playing with balzak (my cat) . I am hugging snowball (another cat).i am eating and eating .i am talking with my friends on the phone.sometimes i am here.actually i am happy.life is beautiful