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| Wednesday, April 12, 2006 |
| Just some odds and ends |
Not much going on. I do believe though that the Wellbutrin is helping me. I still want to take that nap every day but I am hoping that I will get over the need for it. So we will see how long 20 mg of Lexapro and 150 mg of Wellbutrin work for.
My mom took Max to Little Rock to the VA down there. She had his case switched from St.Louis to there. They went yesterday. Max was having blood in his urine and my mom can now feel that lymph node and said it is the size of a large egg. She was pretty worried and she wanted him checked right then. Turns out he has a UTI. They still couldn't do anything about the lymph node because his paper work was not there yet. It was still in the process of being sent to them from St.Louis. I sure will be glad when they get all this straigtened out and get the results of the biopsy. The waiting is really taking a toll on Max and my mother.
I find now that my peak hours are from 4 p.m. to 3 or 3:30 a.m. no matter what I do. I get up anywhere from 6:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. sometimes later and then I am sleepy again at about 1 p.m., even if I get up at 11 a.m. but then I am fully awake at 4 at least, then I am in my groove. I am still sleeping too much, but before I was only up for a few hours a day. Yesterday I was here at the computer surfing and I nodded off. When my head fell forward I jerked up and looked at the time. It said 12:14 and I thought, cool, it is early and I am sleepy for a change. So, I shut down the computer, turned the monitor off and turned in my chair to see that the light in the kitchen wasn't from the stove light but from the window. It was noon not midnight, lmbo. I went ahead and hit the bed anyway. I slept for 2 hours. I got up at 12:20 today and got sleepy again at 2:30 and went to sleep in my chair. I slept until 5:45 when Clay woke me up. I really got to get a better sleep schedule going. I would like to go to bed at 10 p.m. and get up at 6 a.m. and then take my nap at noon. I am suppose to lay down every day and I can't lay down during the day without going to sleep. Now I can lay down at night and lay there for hours awake if my body is not ready to go to sleep, go figure. I am screwy.
Clay is being real reserved again. Not like he was really opening up before. Donna, who is his therapist too, had cut down his visits to once a month because she didn't think he needed it. Well she came to see him last week and decided that she needed to see him more often because he was becoming real quiet again. It is really important that we keep on top of his depression with him having the suicidal tendencies. Life is just going to get harder for him in the years to come and he has to learn better coping skills. He hasn't been hurting himself for awhile, at least that I know of. I just pray for him and keep him in therapy the best I can.
Later. God bless. Teressa. |
posted by Teressa @ 9:22 PM  |
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Lexapro makes me tired all the time. Wellburtin had the opposite effect on me. It made me have energy, but my pdoc won't let me have it because of my anxiety. Blah.
I hope they find out something soon about Max. Waiting is so, so difficult. And I hope it's good news too.
Glad ya'll are keeping a close eye on Clay. Teens seem so hard to talk to sometimes.
Take care sweetie!!
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Keep an eye on Clay. You're doing all that you can and I'm sure he'll turn out just fine in the long run but being a teenager, well, it just sucks for anyone.
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clay is such a sweetie, i worry about him. but with you keeping an eye on him, well i agree with kevin, being a teenager just sucks.
i wish you could get a better sleep schedule. i'll wave my magic wand.
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Thanks for your comment! I'm sure he will be just fine too.
Take care!!
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Hope you are feeling better Teressa. I am only taking a quarter of an effexor now and I really feel like crap some days. The panic attacks have returned but are still bearable. I have found that the walking and taking pictures really is helping me a lot. It keeps my mind off of the daily mucky muck!
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Don't know what your meds are but I'm sure I'd like you to feel better.
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I am glad that Clay will be seeing more of his therapist. Teenagers seem to go off into a world of their own and we mothers feel left out. Amanda did me like that but when she got out of high school she gradually came back. Now that she has Max she is grown up and the relationship changed to adult and adult. Sometimes she ends up being more of a mother to me when I get in my moods. Then I am back to being Ma when she has a difficult time. So Clay prob is going thru the same thing and at least he has someone to talk to not family, where he might be too embarassed to ask for help. Try hard not to worry if you can. He is a good kid and has his head on straight...hugz, Linda
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Lexapro makes me tired all the time. Wellburtin had the opposite effect on me. It made me have energy, but my pdoc won't let me have it because of my anxiety. Blah.
I hope they find out something soon about Max. Waiting is so, so difficult. And I hope it's good news too.
Glad ya'll are keeping a close eye on Clay. Teens seem so hard to talk to sometimes.
Take care sweetie!!