#selfcare

We both work graveyard shifts at different hospitals that are a couple miles apart. I live nearby, while she lives 25 min away. SHE texted ME that she had brought my mail and would drop it off after our shifts (I get off 30 min before her), or if I am already asleep she could…

Love WFH days.  Although I normally get up at 4am, try to throw my body around on the bike and get my act together, WFH days I can sleep in (until 6) and then lay in bed and answer emails.  So much better than when I worked at Climate, no rest for the wicked on…

This was a Facebook post from 4/12/2015 On most days, there are at least twenty television sets playing twenty different channels simultaneously in my head. Some play back sweet memories from my life. They are grainy and sepia-toned, but they are warm and comforting, and I like to stand and watch...

I have a couple therapy assignments right now, and one of them is to make a list of ways I can combat the inevitable seasonal depression that settles in right around when we change our clocks back. It is always very jarring, and renders me completely unproductive, even when up until that point I'...

Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away! (How I now remember the OSI model from the bottom up) Application ;; Layer 7 Presentation ;; Layer 6 Session ;; Layer 5 Transport ;; Layer 4  Network ;; Layer 3  Data ;; Layer 2 Physical ;; Layer 1 Bring Fresh Pizza Sauce Dork!  Data ;; Layers 5,…

No one knows I like to eat lunch at the Hospital. They have a salad bar and their menu options change daily. The best part is the food is the most reasonably priced compared to every where else in my small town. I love going there because I get to see the elderly people from…

So... I can’t sleep. I’m lay here wide awake with the urge racing through my veins. Maybe my trip to Rock Bottom wasn’t a day trip, maybe I need to kick about down here for a little while but without collecting souvenirs. I’m completely med-free at the moment. I start the new meds on Tuesday…

You wrote this yesterday, in the morning, and then at lunchtime you had a full ball panic attack at college, in front of people. The shame you felt, are still feeling will break before you come back next week, it's just the humiliation of  showing your vulnerability and weakness in front of other...