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When I write : 5 minute space I may have been writing of my own ...... Self ........ I can't take too much in and always need 5 minutes to let my mind re connect with what's happening.
Can't remember everything but that something you are ' diagnosed with' is Autistic spectrum.
But since I've known you, you seem to be highly intelligent .......
I need to just look up something you wrote about your Mum just a tic .....
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Hi @Shaz51, how are you? I'm ok, i think, maybe, actually this week I'm in one of those strange zones where i don't know if I'm really good or on the edge of cracking. A lot going on I guess. Hoping its not real & will pass. House looks a bit tidier though. Mums in hospital again, 1200k away, leaving my dad with dementia in thw intermittent care of my youngest two pot-head broke paranoid delusional argumentative brothers (not kind i know but nutshelled fact), they keep texting me stressed & upset & mar still calling shots from her hospital bed. Apart from her terminal cancer she currently has serious eye sinus infection req surgery tomorrow. I want to care & fo through the motions but she's vile with me which hurts more than the lifetime of her narcissism. Repenting as i type for the compassion fatigue i have with her & them. Soo tired. Have my own cancer scare i don't get a chance to tell them about. Lesion found on ultrasound, Biopsy under GA booked for a whole month from now - hate the wait.And finances goinf under & exploring selling house movw on. My cheating x hubby just movedcin with his new woman (not fair), its all too much!!!. Dad's upset over losing his drivers license, mum more put out & abuses him for inconveniencing her by not taking care of himself better (he's 82). Its cruel she's cruel.
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Hi @Former-Member
I'm so sorry you've got so much happening. I can see why youre not sure what you're feeling like now.
Having to wait that long would feel like forever.. I guess that they havent rushed you in tomorrow is a good sign too though.
Is there anyone in your family that you can talk to about everything thats going on with your mum? That sounds so complex and difficult, with the history and the current situation. 😞
Here listening!
Hi @Shaz51 How are you going?
LJ
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No, public health system that slow for surgery. Not really, i don't live near any of them, the 'sane' 1/2 don't talk to those of us who've been through the mental health system (psychosis or not), which is sad cause we need them..Think, with my 30yr nursing background, I'm able to help them see more options, when listening, but gettin sick of being spat at. Things are just gonna go bad there all of a sudden & the money will dry up for the drugs & they'll all blame each other & scrum for $ in family home. I don't think any of them know me anymore & see me as someone I'm not, nor are they trying to. I have travelled to them x5 in as many years, none of them have come to me. And paranoid my nursing background gives contacts against them when i don't.
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yes, sounds like you're doing what you need to, to both support them, and keep yourself safe from the chaos they have going on in their lives too.
ugh the health system sucks doesnt it! 😞
LJ
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
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Hi @Former-Member
What a week !!!!!!!!!! that is all i can say atthe moment , see you tonight
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