Dear Bizi,
 

Dear Bizi,
You are right.
He is being supportive in a general over arching way, but not in little moments when I need him.
Some days we stay out of each other's way.

He is working an incredibly demanding schedule for sumer school and gets up early to get to the gym at 7:00 am.
He works some nights until 10:30 pm.

He's not getting enough sleep and always seems to be coming and going -- pops home for lunch and then pops out again.

It will be a relief when this schedule starts to wind down the end of July. And then again in August when he is on a more normal schedule -- that's what I tell myself.

M.

mari, if you take a finger nail tip and just trace a letter on your arm, gently, will it raise in a welt?

My son has a lot of histimine in him and reacts like that too. Stress escalates it for him too. THe more stress or anxious the more welts and bigger longer lasting the reaction.
HUGS
di

Sending you hugs Mari

And Di that is a interesting thought.

And I'm now wondering if stress is part of my sister that has reactions
and can't breath at times problem.

She really needs some answers. And reading this makes me really wonder
if she is having some of the same problems you do in this case Mari.

I don't even know how to broach this thought with her. SHe would think
I was crazy. But this is something I've got to really investigate somehow
for her.

She has been to every kind of doctor there is.

Donna

reading and games before sleep / activation
 

Hi Mari,

It really depends on the book... hmmm... i wonder if i can identify some characteristics that tend to make reading activating or not. I can say that if a book is intellectually absorbing or suspenseful it is activating. However one thing that invariably happens (but in these cases I often ignore it) is my eyes get tired. The book i am reading now I have read before, which helps, and has sort of slow progress to it... it is a descriptive narrative type book, without strong intellectual content. I have found I can't read much of it without getting tired... at least of reading it.

The laptop also gets my eyes tired but the "inane" activities i do are more intellectually stimulating - logic or pattern games. The less logic/strategy is present the less activating, or so it would seem.

As far as reading... it is not always books but sometimes articles, often on the internet, where i am generally information hunting and end up reading stuff that is slightly over my head but that i'm very interested in... this sort of reading is extremely activating despite my eyes tiring from the brightness.

~ waves ~