oh dear God
May 25, 2009 7:55am
Just seen that it's only 37 more days to finish this thing aaarrrggghhhhh!!!!!!
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Goal End Date is Jul 1, 09 146 days ago.
serenity94
6:22pm Wednesday
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About Me
serenity94
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About Me
I have had chronic illnesses (fibromyalgia and diabetic neuropathy) for a while but am unbowed by them. Recovered alcoholic, Methodist Local Preacher, Tattoos aplenty. Have a 14 yr old granddaughter. Fell in love with NY when I went there in 2006. I practice as a psychotherapist. My avatar is way better looking and cool than I am in real life!!
I have had chronic illnesses (fibromyalgia and diabetic neuropathy) for a while but am unbowed by them. Recovered alcoholic, Methodist Local Preacher, Tattoos aplenty. Have a 14 yr old granddaughter. Fell in love with NY when I went there in 2006. I practice as a psychotherapist. My avatar is way better looking and cool than I am in real life!!
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Interests
Football!!!: (To all of you Stateside, I mean soccer.) Have supported Tottenham all my life and that will never change but I love to watch Arsenal play (for U.S folk, they are deadly rivals) I go regularly because they play wonderful football and their facilities and ticket prices for people with disabilities are superior to Tottenham! Music: Clapton, Springsteen, Lofgren, kd lang, Daughtry, Kellie Pickler (owp! there goes my credibility), anything early 70's (credibility takes another nose dive!) Reading: Ian Rankin, PJ Treacy, Mark Haddon, Lynne Reid-Banks, Chaim Potok, Isabel Millar and anything related to work! Love pub quizzes too and we've even started winning!!!
Football!!!: (To all of you Stateside, I mean soccer.) Have supported Tottenham all my life and that
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Recent Activity
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3 hugs given, 3 hugs received, 1 group discussion post
Friday
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serenity94 gave BIGBEARSHEART a rainbow 11:26pm
Hi Mark, I sent you this rainbow because it is the sign of the first covenant with God and reminds me…
Wednesday
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serenity94 updated their status 6:22pm
We won! we won! League champions!!!! Now we have a title to defend...…
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serenity94 gave CoogeeMum a hug 6:20pm
I'll keep you in my prayers re the tests!…
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serenity94 gave CoogeeMum a hug 4:28pm
Hiya, No, It's a pub quiz - general knowledge but it's very difficult and when we first started going…
November 17
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serenity94 and Watersnake are now friends 12:13pm
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Journal
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Carrying it through
May 25, 2009 7:50am
I was on retreat back in April and one of the things that we looked at was motivation and maintaining momentum.
I have some work still to hand …
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Well, so much for that then
March 9, 2008 5:32pm
Unsurprisingly, I find that I have hardly meditated at all since my last journal entry. I am baffled by my apparent inability to do something that …
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Journal Entry for January 7, 2008
January 7, 2008 11:07am
Had to get up early for an appointment, so didn't meditate until midday, but I still did it! Almost fell asleep towards the end, but nonetheless …
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Journal Entry for January 6, 2008
January 6, 2008 12:47pm
Well, so far so good. Meditation this morning was interrupted by a phone call, but I resumed my meditation after I had taken the call and I feel …
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Hugbook
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Congrats
HA HA... See you WON!! Well done you smart cookies.
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Training harder and feelng great. Cancer tests next week, so fingers crossed. I love Trivia quiz's. Good luck with it.
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High Five
Hey, what's the 'quiz'. Something to do with footy?
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I was the first US Air Force military child born in Keflavik, Iceland. 1955 was the year of birth. I loved my child hood because there was no mother or father around, totally left to my own imagination. Loved to take off and walk everywhere. My mother was always being taken away to a mental hospital, her whole life she suffered Paranoid Schzoid. Voices and all. She was an insest victim, father the instigator her mother knew and lost her mind, died in a mental hospital.
Military family offspring s suffer major association skills, out of always moving . Started drinking at 10, stop at 36 and the rest is open for more arguing with you! lol lol a whole bunch! -
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I lived in a town which had an US Air Force Base called
Bushy Park, I was five and this was in 1959-60. Kingston was the name of the next train stop from our town and London was approx 30-45 minute train ride.
We used to go to a larger amusement park next to, Big Ben as a child and my favorite ride was the Water Roller coaster which had a major splash at the end. Loved it! My father loved to camp so we would travel all over for summer vacations, had to cut one years vacation because my sister had split her had wide open in a landfill dump located next to our campsite located on the Cliffs of Dover.
My father has relatives in Scotland, can't remember the clan but he showed up one day wearing his kilt, of course no boxers underneath! lol
Used to tease the Guards at Buckingham Palace, seeing how they wouldn't flinch a inch, like statues!
Even left crumpets and tea for the Bobby s while they walked the streets at night. House had tulips and roses everywhere and remember eating carmel popcorn in the movie theaters.
Attended off base schools and had to wear those goofy uniforms as well, even the little caps. Dorkish!
My father loved a car then called the Hillman Minx. Even bought the station wagon version and had it shipped to France when we moved there in 1961.
Poor car, first trip to Paris a freight truck ran into the back of it near the Effel Tower!
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Support Groups
Close Chronic Pain
I have fibromyalgia and diabetic neuropathy - which currently, is the pain that is giving me the most problems!
Treatments
- Cymbalta Too Soon to Tell
- Trying this as last resort before trying a nerve block!
- Meditation Working / Worked
- increases my ability to cope with chronic pain rather than treat the pain itself
- Nerve Blocks Considering
- I may have to resort to this if Cymbalta doesn't work!
- Neurontin Working / Worked
- works in part and alongside other meds
- TENS Not Working
- Made the pain worse!
Close Alcoholism
I am a recovered alcoholic and have been sober since 12 January 1994. Went to AA meetings only for three years and surprise surprise I picked up again. Began to work the 12 step programme and hey! I haven't had a drink since, neither have I wanted one.
Treatments
- 12 Step Program Working / Worked
- I recovered doing it, now I live it and have a cool life.
- AA Meetings Working / Worked
- only worked when accompanied by working 12 step programme. It's not designed to work without it.
- Residential Treatment Center Working / Worked
- It pointed me in the direction of the 12 steps and AA, that's why it can be seen to have worked
Open Fibromyalgia
Treatments
- Acupuncture Not Working
- stopped having it as it caused my pain tgo worsen significantly
- Elavil Working / Worked
- Amitryptyline has had a significant effect on my pain levels as it's action is to raise one's pain threshold rather than treat the pain itself
- Neurontin Working / Worked
- difficult this one as I take Gabapentin for diabetic neuropathy rather than specifically for Fibromyalgia
- TENS Not Working
- similar to the effects of acupuncture for me
Open Self-Injury
I used self-injury as a way to cope with overwhelming, painful feelings/emotions. I have recovered and want to support others in their journey through it if I can
Treatments
- Group Therapy Working / Worked
- I sometimes hated it, but along with other therapy it eventually helped and I recovered.
- Psychotherapy Working / Worked
- I was fortunate to have a wonderful therapist, who managed to convey his empathy, love and care for me without ever saying it. He saved my life!
- Tattoos Working / Worked
- I have had quite a few tattoos and do not feel that they have anything to do with SI in my own case. That is not to say it isn't the experience of others! I had most of them long after I ceased to SI.
Open GERD & Heartburn
Treatments
- Domperidone Working / Worked
- It works sometimes, it depends whether I do other stuff like not eat too late
- Prevacid Working / Worked
- Worked for a while but have had to supplement it with Domperidone
Open Diabetes Type 1
Got diagnosed in 1999 with Type 2 but 8 months later, the pancreas packed up completely. Have had several hospital admissions with DKA, which was pretty bad. It's weird on this site because blood sugar is measured differently to here in the Uk.
Treatments
Open Urinary Incontinence
Have urinary incontinenece
Treatments
- Cymbalta Not Working
- Nothing changed when I took it.
