Yesterday I went to Apotek, our local pharmacy, to renew a pain killer prescription. I also picked up an aid for one of the problems caused by my pain killers, combined with having to sit and lie on my backside.
It's the truck driver and the pregnant mother to be's best friend, the doughnut pillow.
I didn't realize how much help it would be. With two days use my problems have been relieved so much that I can actually forget that I have problems other than the leg. The best twelve dollars I've ever invested to handle indelicate problems.
Now, maybe one or more of you can help with another secret remedy.
I've spent much of this weekend in weepy nostalgia. Yesterday it was focused on my parents and my children. Today is was all about church and spouse. I couldn't think of either without weeping.
I started to snap out of it at lunch - potluck with Martin Marty - the church historian. It was a great surprise to have him at Bethany, and I had enough history of listening to his lectures and reading his books so that I had something to talk to him about. But as soon as that was over I was back into weepy mode. Just about anything was making me sentimental. Like my brown leather jacket.
I wanted to get out, I thought that might make me feel better. I wanted to get out to the zoo, in my leather jacket, in honor of that moment back in 1994 or whenever, when the kids and I were photographed in front of the Landmark Cafe in Chicago. Of course Chicago was out of the question, so I was willing to settle for Rolling Hills, provided I could wear my leather jacket and have my picture taken in said leather jacket.
Mostly it worked. For most of the afternoon I was alternately cheery and in pain. The walking is difficult - we mostly rode the tram from stop to stop but did enough walking that I was well aware of my leg-lump. But there were times I started to tear up, usually over nothing.
So, what the heck is going on?
Is it common that the combination of medications leads to depression? Or is the depression a way of alerting me to facing my mortality? Do I need some talkie therapy - I'm more than willing to go talk to someone - or do I need happy pills?
As always, your thoughts are welcome.
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I love you and you are an idiot. Why are you depressed? WANT A FREAKING LIST? If you were happy happy something would be wrong. Emotionally, mentally, physically you are being assaulted. Rather than happy pills, how about allow yourself a good hour of chest beating wailing every day or 2? See if there is a support group, which may be far more helpful than a therapist. I wish, dear, Carl, you saw the incredible person in you that I know many of us see. You are an inspiration, a beacon of love and hope. You get to be weepy. This is gut retching hard and you not only don't have to maintain a stiff upper lip-- I suggest to you that trying to stifle how you feel does more harm that aforementioned chest beating, crying wailing. (((hugs)))
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