I had carpal tunnel surgery last week. Just on the right hand, so I'm getting through life one handed... and it's my best hand
This compression bandage is off now, and I'll get the stitches out next week... It looks pretty nasty right now. The doc gave me darvocet for the pain-but I don't like the way it makes me feel so I've been... Read more
At some point in my wanderings the last couple days I saw an article about depression actually increasing this time of year. Now I can't find it- I wanted to link to it.. heck it might have been HERE! Anyway I just skimmed it and thought... wow.. I just wrote about that. Well -- I'm somewhat normal in my abnormality And to think,... Read more
Things went much better today. After a couple weeks of dysfunction. It really helped getting enough (or at least closer to enough) sleep last night. I felt good this morning. Still a little blah.. but not down. The weather was lovely and I think that helped as well. The receptionist kindly limited referrals to my line... I didn't ask her... Read more
I noticed that almost a year ago that I initially started trying to keep this journal here. And it's been months and months since I posted anything at all. So while everyone with SAD is starting to bounce back as the nice weather sets in I'm crashing? And apparently that's the norm for me? I'm thinking back over the the... Read more
I don't know... years ago when I first went to a doctor about depression and the effexor fortunately started to work and work quickly I told the doctor (on a visit after the drugs had been working for some time) that my mood was probably 5 or 6 on a scale of 1 to 10. He suggested a higher dose. I didn't want to, he wondered why I would be... Read more
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