Kay,

I hope that Thursday's went well.

Consider setting up a phone appointment with your tdoc. A month seems a long time.You're not in crisis,
but hearing her voice during a 20 mins phone call will help you, esp after you complete the last two sessions. I always have felt better about my tdoc (any doc really . . when I have a date scheduled.)
You can cancel when the date gets close and you feel o.k. without her.
Does her daughter have a due date?

I LOL'ed at the cats not liking the Chinese food.
I generally dislike it but I brought into my life because it was convenient for me to order for hubby until he went low carb/high fat. Also my old friend likes it.

M

Sorry ladies, but I'm totally anti- extra therapy except under special circumstances. I know I should be going more often, but it's a small miracle I go at all.

I did take a nap before my appointment yesterday. I really needed it. I felt better for a couple of hours afterwards. I feel much better this morning.

My counselor was very pleased with my revelations about the differences between my history of dealing with MS vs. my history of dealing with bipolar disorder properly and her role in the counseling process. She said I was doing very well, and I was able to vent my frustration in a healthy way. As a result, I feel a lot better.

I got really upset yesterday because my counselor told me that after 4 weeks, drunk.org still hadn't sent her my file and she needs it in order for us to complete the final paperwork for the state of NH together. Apparently, my counselor has to address any separate concerns raised by the drunk.org counselor during the substance abuse evaluation. We have 2 sessions left, and that is the time needed to finish the final paperwork.

Drunk.org doesn't have a good track record, having left me hanging for over a month after the driving class before hitting me with the substance abuse evaluation and ensuing counseling. So, I was obviously worried about delays and decided to be more aggressive in my handling of this situation. Yesterday's call to my case manager went unanswered. Realizing she'll be out of the office today, I called back hoping to get help from someone else and found out that they sent my file out on Wednesday. Crisis averted

I took issue with some things written in the copy of the evaluation drunk.org gave me, and I let my case manager there and my counselor know that. My counselor said that she has had problems with them in the past and doesn't want me to worry too much about it. She isn't surprised that they had a hard time understanding the dual-diagnosis.

The last four weeks seem to have gone by rather quickly. I hope I don't get ants in my pants so the final two weeks will go by fast, too.
Unfortunately, once my counselor has finished up on her end, I will have to wait for drunk.org to "complete (my) file" and file the necessary paperwork with the court and DMV. God only knows what I'm going to have to go through to make sure they do that, how long it will take them to do it, or what will come up in the meantime.

From there, I request a letter from the NH DMV to take to the MA DMV so I can get insurance, then provide proof of it to the NH DMV, who will then send me a clearance letter I can take to the MA DMV to get my license back. Sounds like fun, right?

Kay

So glad to read all this. Sounds like your biggest problem will be and
has been the paperwork. But you stay on top of that so well. I think
they know its fruitless for them to just keep you hanging.

Donna

To be honest Donna, I think they're just inept. I think I'm going to have to inundate them with phone calls to keep them on track.

Thank you for your report about yesterdays meeting.
It sounds like she is really better understanding your health situation.
Happy about that.
As far as the DMV is concerned...hang in there be persistent, some how be patient in this process.... come vent here any time you need!
bizi

I have no doubt that my counselor will let me know when she sends drunk.org what they need from her.

I will call them to confirm they have it and ask 1) what they need to do to in order to complete my file and 2) when I can expect them to complete it. I will make my next call based on that response, and then I will call every 2-3 days after if I need to.

I know that's obnoxious behavior, but I made the mistake of trying to be polite and giving drunk.org periods of a week between phone calls to get things done after the driving class, and I ended up getting strung along for over a month. They demonstrated their lack of urgency and followthrough again by failing to send my file to my counselor in a timely manner despite her phone calls. I have no intention of letting them slack off again.

Good ideas Kay.

Drown them with kindness, while calling and that will really get to them.

Donna

That's the plan I'm going to be super friendly, and try to act like we're working on a project together and I'm just checking in. I'll be the squeaky wheel, but I'm going to feel incredibly guilty calling so often so I'm going to have to push myself to do it.
Hopefully they sent my file to the right address and it did get to my counselor lol. I'm looking forward to finishing the sessions up in less than two weeks. The time really has gone by quickly.

My cough has gotten a little better since taking the mucinex dm- thank you Mari and Bizi. There isn't a warning on the package that it may cause drowsiness, so I guess that the amantadine didn't do a great job this weekend.

In addition to the counseling appointment Thursday, I also have a GYN appointment Wednesday. The GYN's going to want to discuss switching my birth control due to my recurring ovarian cysts, as I mentioned on Bizi's thread. I also have to have a repeat PAP smear to follow up on tests I had done months ago that came back as possible high grade pre-cervical cancer, but she thinks they may be false positives. I'm hoping she's right. I scheduled this appointment 4 months ago and put all this in the back of my mind. I guess I'm not really freaking out about it because I haven't let myself think about it in so long, but I am nervous.

I'm going to walk over to the apartment leasing office today. They're requiring all vehicles to have stickers on them now so I want to pick those up and I want to give them a copy of our renter's insurance policy renewal. The weather's going to be pretty nice… in the 50s. It's going to be a pretty long walk for me, but it's a good excuse to get out.

There's one ***** over there that's not fan of me, and the feeling is mutual. I've called twice because every week, for the last 4 weeks, one of the residents in the building has left a bag of trash in a common area between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning. Maintenance picked up the first bag after I called on week 1 but trash sat there for 2 weeks after I called on week 3. Someone else must have called to complain because someone actually came and took the remaining 3 bags away yesterday.
I don't know if I can resist bringing the subject up. I'm really ****** off that they ignored my last call and let those trash bags sit there for a week. I've decided I'm not going to call about it again. If I can't be calm and polite, I'm definitely going to keep my mouth shut.
Who would think it was okay to just leave their trash in a common area? What kind of person would do something like that? The dumpster's not a long walk from our building… how lazy do you have to be?
My objection to it is that we don't exactly pay cheap rent for where we live and I don't want to walk down the hall, have to smell someone else's trash, and feel like I'm living in a tenement building. Policy regarding trash removal is also written into the lease.

Sorry for the trash rant. It just bothers me.

I really ****** up….

At 10:30 it occurd to me I may have forgotten to take my pills, so I checked the pill cae and the Tuesday spot was still full so I took them. I was in shower about a half an hour ago and started to feel rally ****** up and remembered the pills I had just taken had come from the blue side… nighttime pills. The yellow side was also empty.

750mg seroquel last night, another 800 this morning… max dose 800mg/day. I took my nighttime pills by accident one before, but not the am pills, too.

I feel really ****** up like I need to sleep imediately. I called pdoc, but she's out of the office. I asked the receptionist to ask one of the RNs if I should good to the hospital. I told her it was very important. 20 minutes ago, no word. I may just sleep it off like last time…