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- Hey, everybody. I'm on my way back to the States from Mexico. Classes start Wednesday. I've had a great time, but I really screwed up today during my overnight hotel stopover in Mexico City to catch my flight to Dallas and on home in the...
- Hey, y'all, I'm doing my daily DS PTSD check in in the nick of time today, less than an hour before midnight. The hotel I always stay at, which I love for lots of reasons, 19 of them being the mere 19 US dollars they charge me to stay here per...
- I'm down in Mexico checking out the town here where I plan to retire to in 18 months from 40 years of teaching community college psych and Spanish in the USA. I haven't moved in 9 years. It was a hard move for me, so I'm looking for any advice...
- TRIGGER WARNINGKnowing Spanish and having lived in Mexico as a kid for a couple of years opened doors for me here on my Christmas vacation in Mexico this holiday season. One door it opened was for me to get affordable dental implants...
- Christmas has been tough for me since my therapist and I decided it was time for me to stop returning even as an adult to my elderly parents' home for Christmas. My parents, he said, are probably mentally ill, which would explain not only how I...
- As many of you know, I got PTSD as a missionary kid growing up in Mexico and Uruguay. When I was in Mexico it was the 1960s and there were student riots going on, as in Tlatelolco massacre.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacreThen when...
- Yesterday I had my one year follow up appointment with my bariatric surgeon about my weight loss surgery. They did blood work to see if it had affected my chronic kidney disease, and to check vitamin levels to see about nutrition. My kidneys...
- It's not directly a PTSD recovery issue, but a year ago today I came home from the hospital from my bariatric weight loss stomach surgery I had. Since then I've lost 111 pounds and have now kept them off for 3 months now. The improvement in my...
- The "odometer" on my Daily Strength PTSD support group dashboard just rolled over saying we've posted 25,000 times here now. The number of members, 7,000 plus, may not be so accurate since it could have bots in the mix, but the number of posts...
- As you all know, since I got chronic kidney disease 8 years ago and had to quit working as a hospital chaplain, I've been a full time community college nursing instructor teaching the care of terminal patients. Weekends, though, all those years...
- Today I learned that a friend of mine is dying of kidney failure. I've known her for 8 years now. After 6 and 1/2 years of dialysis 3 times a week for kidney disease, she's had enough and discontinued dialysis. In the interim, she's had both...
- Just testing to see if anybody's here. I had a vivid PTSD dream--not a terrible one, just a vivid one--so I was wondering.... Testing 123.
- Hey, everybody. Muji here, on a Thursday evening. Whew, am I ever tired! This work week hasn't been dramatic or traumatic, just long. I'm kind of pooped, but I've got one more day of work to get through tomorrow. I posted last week about...
- For anyone who doesn't already know, I'm 61. Since 1980, I've either been a teacher or a hospital chaplain for 39 years now. After this school year 2019-2020 and then just one more year 2020-2021, I'm planning to retire to Mexico, where I grew...
- I came home from a nice Sunday afternoon to find the upstairs apartment's plumbing had leaked water on to the ceiling of my place below it such that the ceiling paneling had caved in on my kitchen. Argh. I've got a lackadaisical property manager...