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🙂 HUGE SIGH OF RELIEF!! Get some rest; take care of yourself and your husband. Really, I’m just soooo glad everybody’s okay.
Glad you made it here to update. Glad youre able to see the end of the forest. Speaking as someone who has been afflicted with anxiety attacks (and when you least expect them) since she was in 9th grade, I empathize intensely with hubby’s attacks. Im sure theyve been recorded and mentioned to the nurse- and maybe they can give him something. Or, maybe it’s too early in recovery to muck it up with meds.
I can tell you that him getting out of bed and moving will not only do the obvious for his condition, but getting up and even being that kind of active, may well help alleviate some of his stress and dramatically reduce the onset of his anxiety attacks. My 2 cents. I hope you guys both get the rest and attention you need. Thoughts are with you! And hugs too!
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX <3<3<3They had been giving him paxil and clonopin (I know I spelled that wrong) for his anxiety. His surgeon doesn’t want any of his patients to take meds for anxiety so I had to have a fit with the transplant team about it. I told them his anxiety is so bad that he is not goind what he needs to do in order to get better. They finally said today they would give him back his paxil but that takes 3 weeks to build up in your system to do any good. I do think if he would just get up more he would be more confident and feel better but its so hard to get him to do it. He knows what he has to do and he is the only one that can do it. I’ve already told him I can’t take care of him at home if he doesn’t get better with his anxiety.
He’ll come around, I’m sure. Take in a deep breath and catch all the hugs coming your way!
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmI made the mistake of telling his mother to lay into him when she came up to visit tonight. She just called me bragging about how she told him someone died for him to have a second chance at life and he is just screwing it up. I think that was WAY too harsh of her to say to him. I tried to call and talk to him but he didn’t really want to say anything. I’m going to have to leave straight from work and go down there in the morning to repair the damage she has done. She is such an idiot I don’t know what ever came over her to say that to him.
Jasmine wrote:Glad you’re good. Of course we worry, we’re a family. A slightly disfunctional one but still a family.
SLIGHTLY???
I hope everything works out for you hubby, Trust me I know what it is like to try to get people to do things doctors want when they do not want to to them
purpledoggy wrote:I made the mistake of telling his mother to lay into him when she came up to visit tonight. She just called me bragging about how she told him someone died for him to have a second chance at life and he is just screwing it up. I think that was WAY too harsh of her to say to him. I tried to call and talk to him but he didn’t really want to say anything. I’m going to have to leave straight from work and go down there in the morning to repair the damage she has done. She is such an idiot I don’t know what ever came over her to say that to him.
I know her intentions were good, but that was extremely tactless. 😕
I’m glad you and your husband are doing okay. You need to be firm with him during this recovery period. It is crucial that he gets up and walks around, and does exercises so he can heal properly. I’ve had so many surgeries as a result of my cancer… so I know what he’s going through. You gotta get him to stay focused and get him to realize what he NEEDS to do to go on living a wonderful life with you and your new daughter. Make him understand that you need him just as much as he needs you right now. I’ve still got you and him in my prayers. Hang in there girl… things will work out soon! *big warm hugs* 🙂
I’m so glad that you are back and that things are still okay. It probably hurts to get up and walk and it’s easier to just stay in bed and sleep. But you have to find something that will motivate him that you can say to him that will get him out of bed. This is the type of thing I teach — how to convince people of something (like doing something for their own good that they don’t want to do). Find the thing that will trigger the motivation and figure out a way to say it that will convince him to do it. Good luck!
I get anxiety attacks really bad myself because of the duragesic patch I have on for my pancreatitis. sometimes it gets so bad I start convulsing, xanax is my saving grace at those times, thank the goddess my hb is a fireman. what helps me with the anxiety is to visualize a big block letter 100 in my head an imagine myself filling it in with a tiny paintbrush. my mom taught me that when i was a kid, I’ve always been sick since i was little, and it’s helped alot as i’ve gotten older. that, and to shred a napkin into tiny pieces. I’vetaught my patients that at the hospital, and it really works. ::Clean hugs:::
DragonMistress wrote:xanax is my saving grace at those times, thank the goddess my hb …
Wow. You and I have quite a few things in common!
PhoenixTears wrote:DragonMistress wrote:xanax is my saving grace at those times, thank the goddess my hb …
Wow. You and I have quite a few things in common!
I thought we might, there’s been more than one “that sounds familiar” moment.
DragonMistress wrote:PhoenixTears wrote:DragonMistress wrote:xanax is my saving grace at those times, thank the goddess my hb …
Wow. You and I have quite a few things in common!
I thought we might, there’s been more than one “that sounds familiar” moment.
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