Our Lives As A Roller Coaster

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#1 Yong

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Posted 07 April 2008 - 01:37 PM

I don't know where you are in comparison to the IDL but here it's 9:30 on a Monday morning.

For some reason, I was really depressed ever since Thursday night. I attributed this to my mom backing into my parked car in the driveway and consequently me not being as free to move about. I guess being stuck at home again could do the trick but I think it's more than that.

Because I'm still relatively new at this SCI thing (coming up on one year on April 22), I'm still on that emotional roller coaster. Some days I wake up and just feel like shit..for no apparent reason. I was like that Friday and Saturday. Plus, I had a UTI on Saturday that got my neuropathic pains skyrocketing so I was 'f*ck this f*ck that f*ck life" :badmood:

on top THAT, I had indigestion and squirted diarrhea every hour ON THE HOUR.

Amazingly enough, once I woke up on Sunday morning...everything was good.

Of course the laundry room still had remnants of the previous day's adventures and I was still feeling a little woozy from over-medication..but I felt good!

Even this morning....GREAT MORNING! Man...I feel like exercising...doing all my lab reports that are due THURSDAY :mfrlol:

haha

I don't know what higher power permitted all of us to live our lives bound to a chair...but for some reason I think He's looking out. Gotta take the good with the bad... as for me... as of now... even though there are LOTS of shitty things going on..the goods still outweigh them.

I hope your day is beginning/ending just as good as mine!

-James

#2 carole338

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Posted 07 April 2008 - 01:52 PM

James,

Having just past my one year anniversary I know what you mean. I must say the good now are outweighing the bad. Thanks for your post. It made me realize I was having one of my good days and I should appreciate it. Glad you are having one too.

Carole

"It's only the giving that makes you what you are." Tull

#3 youwhat

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Posted 07 April 2008 - 02:16 PM

Hi James, ironic we have the same name :badmood:

I know how you feel going through a few UTI at the moment, just when it seems to be gone its coming back and as for the nuero pains, well what can you say eh? It doesn't seem to matter what you do at the time when they hit you it is just blinding pain like no other I myself have felt. But I am the same as yourself in the way that it is a rollercoaster, 10 months more or less now since my injury and I am still thinking alot about things that I should be or could be doing.

As you say you can wake up one morning feeling shit and the next feel fine, I think I put through 4-5 times a day happy to extremely upset over nothing usually but that could be related to my depression and other things, who knows! Basically I hear what you say, going through it myself and if you ever need to talk to someone about it drop us a pm, will be more than happy :mfrlol:

Take care matey (Awesome name!)

James

But have you tried walking?

#4 wheeliebear75

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Posted 09 April 2008 - 12:53 AM

It's not just newbies who get the "joy" of riding the SCI emotional roller coaster.........it's just that the ups and downs aren't as drastic or as frequent; in MY experience anyhow.

*Enjoy every sunset, but be grateful for every dawn.*
*Wheelchairs are made of a special ocular magnetic alloy......they're "eyeball magnets".*
*I USE a wheelchair, that does NOT make ME a wheelchair!*