How I hope and pray your day out with the girls has been indeed refreshing to your spirit and that you were more involved and less of a wallflower. Golly, in your situation merely being there is far less "wallflowerish" than having stayed at home!!!
It is cool your Mum could drive you!
I am glad you are blessed with caring family [inclusive of your angel dogs] who watch over you.
Give it time. Work the dickens out of that stim. Explore it. I was allowed to actually program my stim from the first day, and it has served me VERY well since mid 2010. You can get there! I have hope and share prayers for you in this regard.
Using my stim I was able to withdraw from every single drug which had ruled my life during medicinal pain management. I hope as well for you this may be the case for you.
CARING Pam,
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