ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Nothing could compare with the loss of a child - so sorry to hear that ...
My own lesser stress started off as a combination of relationship stress, family stress and work stress. Those stresses caused me to crack up and I lost the relationship and the work, which kind of helped in one way, but plunged me into debt which was a wonderful new replacement stress.
The family stress was eventually resolved over time by the deaths of my parents after long periods of ill health, but was replaced by the stress of grief.
Two years after the death of my mum, I was finally getting my head back together and planning for the future when ... the world ran out of oxygen! Actually, it didn't, but I nearly did. I ended up doing a great impression of a fish out of water, flopping about on the ground, gasping for air, my skin deathly white and my lips blue. Fortunately, after 3 hours of crawling, I managed to get to a phone, and eventually to hospital.
My illness was a big source of stress, but 8 months of rat poison meds got me back to about 50% of my former capacity and I was able to go drug-free - yay!
3 months later, I got the same illness again, was doing the gasping fish thing, and was back on meds for life - boo!
But after 6 months of that, I started to improve again - yay!
And then I caught a bloody cold and I am back flopped in front of the computer, stupidly short of breath, with an elevated pulse rate and feeling crap - boo!
But ... I think I will be ok, eventually. Not great - I am never going to be able to do some of the things that I'd wanted to do but if I can do moderately hard bike rides and not suffer too much, then that would do me. Oh, and earning a modest income too would be handy ...
My own lesser stress started off as a combination of relationship stress, family stress and work stress. Those stresses caused me to crack up and I lost the relationship and the work, which kind of helped in one way, but plunged me into debt which was a wonderful new replacement stress.
The family stress was eventually resolved over time by the deaths of my parents after long periods of ill health, but was replaced by the stress of grief.
Two years after the death of my mum, I was finally getting my head back together and planning for the future when ... the world ran out of oxygen! Actually, it didn't, but I nearly did. I ended up doing a great impression of a fish out of water, flopping about on the ground, gasping for air, my skin deathly white and my lips blue. Fortunately, after 3 hours of crawling, I managed to get to a phone, and eventually to hospital.
My illness was a big source of stress, but 8 months of rat poison meds got me back to about 50% of my former capacity and I was able to go drug-free - yay!
3 months later, I got the same illness again, was doing the gasping fish thing, and was back on meds for life - boo!
But after 6 months of that, I started to improve again - yay!
And then I caught a bloody cold and I am back flopped in front of the computer, stupidly short of breath, with an elevated pulse rate and feeling crap - boo!
But ... I think I will be ok, eventually. Not great - I am never going to be able to do some of the things that I'd wanted to do but if I can do moderately hard bike rides and not suffer too much, then that would do me. Oh, and earning a modest income too would be handy ...
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