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Hi ya'll, well my sis in Md. and her husband demanded to pay for my phone and intenet connection. I did my best to talk her out of it, husband got on the phone with his bossy voice.....you are doing it for me, I need to be able to work on your computer. We are doing it....
He is a big softie. so nice. He can get on my computer as if he is on it clear on the east coast. Trippy huh?
Then my son tells me not to worry about the cell phone as he will take care of that. He does not want me anywhere with out him being able to check on me. Or if I fell in the barn or something.
The gal did not send my settlement payment. It is what I use for food and my power....plus her number is unlisted now... great. well I have her address. anyway I have a gal who adopted me, mom sent me money for food. so when that gal pays me. I will have enough to fix my truck...
hopefully I will have enough to get it going. no vehicle four miles from town and probably eight from a store is too much for me to walk or anything.
Plus could afford my meds today.
yesterday was so bad. I was very sick, no meds no food, sick, had panic attacks. Did my best to trust hp, but am human and lost it.
but I am still here. With out hp, yesterday would have done me in.
So I guess I will not have to leave my home here at MIP. so glad. you all are a lifeline for me.
A about took my life away, however bit by tiny bit, I am coming back.
Maybe I can haul things to make a bit of money??? hmmmm
Great to hear you having some help and that you wont lose your connections to the world!
It used to be soooooo difficult for me to receive help of any kind, financial or otherwise! But I was always the first one there to give whatever help I could to everyone else. It took this program to make me see completely how I was robbing the gift of giving that I got everytime I did from those trying to give to me!
So glad you are here! Accepting help has always been hard for me, I've been learning this year that it is OK to need help. My family and friends are happy to help in any way they can, I've accepted that my angels can be my relatives too
Happy holidays and best wishes in the New Year to you!
Sometimes it's okay to let others do for us. I know it's hard, but it's okay. I am glad that you are still connected to us. We would miss your sweet smiling face.
Love and blessings to you and all your animals at Potter's Eden.
Live strong,
Karilynn & Pipers Kitty
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Debilyn, I'm so happy to hear that you have people that are helping you. I'm also very glad to know that you'll still be able to be here online with us. This place wouldn't be the same without you here!!! Love, Artygirl
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Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain.
If you are experiencing panic attacks, you should call your sponsor. Taking medication is a bandaid, and I don't understand why the members on this message board are not advising you against taking drugs for panic attacks. I used to have panic attacks in early sobriety, and went to more meetings.....They eventually went away. I don't support medication. I support you finding an alanon meeting in your area, and getting the phone list, and calling someone to pick you up if your car doesn't run.
Medication is not the alanon answer, and I am curious as to why our members haven't spoken up about it to you.
Perhaps you misread the post? debilyn did not say she was taking meds to make her panic attacks go away. In fact she said she had none while having panic attacks.
I'm not sure why you would think it is the members place to try to control it IF that was the case. We all know and love debilyn. She has other illnesses that she takes meds for, which I believe is what she was referring to when she said she had enough money to get them..
Christy
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We are not doctors. We are 12 step members. I can't help someone who is on medication.....that is the doctor's job. I shouldn't even be responding to someone who is being medicated by a doctor.....but you can, if you would like.
You are right Christy, I had the p. attacks becuz I was out of my hrt, and anti depressants, and the stuff for this darn bowel disease.
I was in pain, hungry, angery,lonely and tired. is that it lol ???
I have dang grief depression. I do great on the med. But when I run out of them becuz I did not get my money and I don't have the right food for my gut, I get real dizzy sortof, it feels like my head is in a wave. up and down sort of.
So my body and head were not doing so hot, got scared and could not get it together, like any meds you take every day, you do not want to have any lapse of time.
I have many depending on me, lots of hard physical work. I hate to not feel well when I need to.Have an injured horse i am medding after the surgery I just did. I have to be steady to do that. Plus just did surgery on one of my pet pigs.
I have med I suppose for p attacks but had no desire to go to sleep. I have meds to calm me when I have real bad pain. But I HATE it, so I have days I have to sit still. I am not into drugs.
I like to feel like me....lol
thankyou Gayle for being concerned, even though you misunderstood.
I do not go to face to face meeings, all I have learned is from MIP and books and life. Lots from reading the Bible, and I am a Health and education major with LOTS of social classes under my belt.
Mostly from life though and I love the book, Getting Them Sober. It taught me the most. I mean as far as literature, on an odat, courage to change that I still have not found. I wonder if I sent them to someone??
Never had a sponsor really, more I had many right here on MIP. TT and abbyal, Christy, tlc and John and lots of others who are not here now. and many who are, I hate to name nics as I know I would not get them all.actually I learn from everyone here.
Now there are a bunch of great newer people I learn from.
Also Gayle, I am probably the oldest member who posts almost daily. One thing I always say is, I appreciate it when someone says, in my experience...not you should. I NEVER use the word should. To me, in my experience, it is trying to control someone else.
Plus I do not have aism. Medication is not always a bandaid and we here would NEVER take it upon ourselves to tell others not to take their meds. Alanon has nothing to do with anyone and their own person medication.
Face to face here allows kids there and I cannot focus on the meeting when kids are there smashing peanut butter on the table and crawling under neat it....lol
love,debilyn back to her normal, which to many may be a bit kookie. lol
I hope you're doing better. I've read many of your posts since I found this site almost 2 yrs ago.
Gayle, I take thyroid medicine for hypothyroidism, as well as singulair for asthma. If I don't take them, I'd have severe lethargy, hair loss, and trouble breathing. I'm a health and fitness consultant and exercise DAILY, plus I take nutritional supplements and vitamins. However, these measures alone do not help my situation. I do need certain medicines for these two problems. I'd hate to think that I could not get any ESH from others because I'm being medicated by a doctor. Just because some of us here take medications doesn't mean that we are not working our Alanon program or that we are not talking to our sponsors.
When you get older and are in need of medications for aches and pains, or HRT or whatever it might be, I am sure that you will not like it if someone said to you that they should not talk to you because you are being medicated by a doctor.
If an alanon member were battling cancer, would chemotherapy not be considered? Do you not speak to people who use other forms of medications, such as birth control, or OTC products like Tylenol? I thought the alanon answer was to take care of yourself...if a medication helps you to do that, then what is the problem?
