|
Junior Member
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 78
|
|
|
Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 78
|
I'm with you guys. I don't know how much more I can handle.
All I have here is my husband and my 2 kids (11 and 9 years old). My husband... He loves me. He truly and honestly believes that he supports me. In his own way. For those of you, who don't know - he is a medical professional (PA) working in one of the urgent care clinics and you all know how little training they have when it comes to our injury. He just doesn't get it. You know - the worst patients are doctors. I can ensure you - the worst caregivers are also doctors (or PAs in my case).
What make the situation worse - he really thinks he is helping me and supporting me by saying "it's all in your head", "depression", "taking vitamins is not gonna help you". Don't get me wrong - he is a good man, he is always there for me when I need him. He just simply doesn't get this injury. He thinks that I should trust his opinion (since he a professional here of course) and not trust what I have read online or anywhere else.
I'm sorry this is too long, but I just feel that I need to vent badly. We had a nasty fight yesterday. I spent the whole evening crying, couldn't join our online meeting. We had a fight today over something that's not gonna happen for the next 4 years (I know this one is on me). I feel so lonely and isolated. I have nobody to talk to. No friends, no family. I barely get out of the house. Life sucks.
__________________
2002 - hit my head on a washer door while doing laundry. Recovered in 24 hours (was 7 months pregnant at that time)
2005 (maybe 2006) - kitchen cabinet (it took me ~ 1 week to recover)
2009 - refrigerator shelf, recovered in 1 month
summer, 2011 - metal rail, the life-changing concussion. Black out for ~10 minutes, spent ~2weeks in bed (wasn't able to even use a bathroom by myself). Made a complete recovery in 2 months.
October, 2011 - washer door again. Recovered in 1 months.
March, 2012 - kitchen cabinet again. Suicidal depression. Was diagnosed with OCD. Severe anxiety. Was completely recovered in 4 months, celexa is a magical pill.
After that I managed to go almost 1.5 years without a concussion! Was at a completely symptom-free stage, started volunteering at my kids' school again. I was living a happy life. Then,
August, 2013 - fell down the stairs, broke my ankle badly (my surgeon said that he literally has never seen anything that bad ever before and he's been practicing for more than 20 years).
September, 2013 - my son was hugging me and we bumped into each other. Result - complete return of all of my symptoms., no improvement with time. Severe depression again.
7/7/2014 - hit my self on a metal shelf again while trying to clean.
I'm not clumsy. It's just the floor hates me, the tables and chairs are bullies and the wall gets in the way.
|