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- Hey, everybody,Just checking in. I posted a week ago that for the first time in 8 years I'd need a week off od DS PTSD to get ready for school's opening this month. I was right. Not only did I need the last week off to get my head above water...
- Hey, amigos:Last week's Day 136 Meme was about putting self care before the care of others. As I said in my reply that day it reminded me that of what flight attendants always say in their safety demonstration before take off. They always...
- (Later) Hey, fyi, I'm down with a case of nausea this evening at 9pm. So if I don't participate as much as usual tomorrow it's because I'm waiting to purge whatever has upset my stomach so I can get over feeling nauseated, OK?It's just something...
- As y'all know, I was a Spanish university prof for 12 years, then a hospital chaplain for 10, and now a community college instructor for nursing and other students for 10. In other words, my career hasn't chased promotions as much as it's been...
- I don't know for sure, really, how meditation works, since I learned from brain surgeons directly as a hospital chaplain on a neurosurgical unit that the brain's still largely a mystery, like the unmapped Pacific Ocean floor. But the same week I...
- I'm having a bad day. Yesterday was why. It was the 47th anniversary of the military coup that overthrew democracy in Uruguay when I was a 15 year old missionary kid growing up there. Yesterday it bothered me so much that I didn't even mention...
- I mentioned here earlier this week that as per my therapist's suggestion, for my own safey I haven't spoken to anyone from my biological family of origin since Christmas of 2010. That's when my father kept up the family tradition of hitting me...
- My skin is crawling because I feel like I was just contacted by a scary ghost from the beyond. I haven't spoken to anyone from my biological family of origin since Christmas of 2010. That's when my father kept up the family tradition of hitting...
- A lot of you here know quite well that going to Mexico May31-Aug10 this summer was a big deal to me. I rented a little house there to live in all summer that I planned to keep rented all year to retire to for good next year. I grew up in Mexico,...
- I had a rough night last night and today twice my thermometer has shown me to be running a fever of 102.1. I have chronic kidney disease and diabetes, so at 61 I'm in the high risk group for COVID-19. My buddy of 37 years, Deb, died of it in 2...
- Hey, everybody, just wanting to say thanks for getting me through the latest gut punch of another pandemic travel ban. As you all know, I got PTSD growing up in Mexico and Uruguay as a missionary kids with parents who weren't evacuated from a war...
- It's the morning after I found out that the border has been closed again, this time until June 22, and I had tickets to fly to Mexico either Jun4 or Jun10. I grew up in Mexico and Uruguay, and have always gone back to one country of origin or the...
- I'm having big PTSD fight or flight symptoms today because I literally had a flight taken away from me today. Months ago before the pandemic I bought a plane ticket for a flight to Mexico today so I could stay there all summer in the little house...
- Hey, all, today I got an email from the administration of the community college where I teach nursing students. They called a virtual Zoom meeting for tomorrow to discuss whether we teachers will teach face to face in the Fall, or whether we want...
- I just wanted to post my gratitude. In the midst of this pandemic, I lost my 2nd dearest friend since 1983, and as a community college instructor teaching nursing students, like all other teachers across the country I had to scramble to adapt from...