Amongst everything. I'm trying to make myself a self-care package for discharge next week.
If anyone has any suggestions for inexpensive things that I could put in it, please, I would be very grateful as my mind is so foggy at the moment so I'm struggling to think.
She's such a cutie 😍
Thank you! I'm truly at my last dregs of energy and resilience.
If only he had that understanding! I fully agree with you. Honestly, I just think he lacked any basic knowledge of it all.
I am fairly broken, not just because he was useless and on the mean side of things, but because it took such a huge amount of mental and physical energy, which I am entirely lacking at the moment. And it has scared me off of GP tomorrow - past medical trauma has made me very sensitive.
Still reeling from this man: "pain doesn't exist after 3-4 months" 😳🤬
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Feeling very disheartened after physio. I need to make notes for my long-awaited GP appointment tomorrow and can't get my brain working to do so.
In his 50s, I reckon
Thank you! Yes, anything gets worse with lack of sleep but it is not the actual source of pain, which was his take 😳🙄
Exactly. Just acknowledge your/your profession's limitations and move on!
The annoyance is I allowed moderate expectations because I was really lucky in my pain management appointment- they kept me on the strong stuff and added more. So I stupidly allowed myself to have hope in this physio appointment made by them but I should have been prepared!
Can you imagine that they spend almost £2000 a dose on very specialist medication when all I needed was sleep 😲🤯🤬
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My position for the rest of the day
Thank you!
Thank you! I came in and crawled back into bed to nap. I'm just really angry with them.
Infuriating!
He wasn't even after doctors stopping the huge amount of pain meds (in the same way that the pain management clinic were happy with it), so they believe it is real, but still I can apparently think it away...it took so much energy to get there, I am very disappointed and angry 🤯
It didn't bode well when after telling me that he couldn't provide treatment "but I'm a pain specialist" that he hadn't ever heard of Oxycodone. When he followed that conversation with sleep hygiene being the answer, I did say that I don't think pain needing Oxycodone was going to be thought away.
Sorry to hear this! Best of luck ❤️
I need actual physio but he isn't allowed as he is a 'pain physio'
Well physio was a waste of time: apparently sleep hygiene (which I know forwards, backwards and upside down) will completely stop my pain 🤬
Yeah, it wasn't not knowing my personal circumstances, it was working in nursing and making those assumptions!
Anyway, I am in bed but stayed up and hour later than is wise, but I need to balance enrichment and rest...a bit like a zoo animal 🤣
Thanks lovely! Same goes for you. And I always really appreciate your friendship and encouragement ❤️
Absolutely. You know where I am if you need to talk though - I get how hard the balance is ❤️
I'm barely surviving - it feels like one small bump will be the end! I am normally so prepared but I haven't done any revision for my exam in a couple of weeks and have so much health stuff that I've no idea when/how to fit studying in!
In that moody "but I want to do something that I actually want to do, not sleep more" phase of the day that is entirely unhelpful
Yep!! Can any of it be temporarily hidden into something like a magazine file so it is out of eyeline but still accessible?
Well done!