Well, it's been 30 days since I last posted on my blog! ..I feel like it has been a lot longer, actually I have some news - it seems it is "All in my head"! Yeah - I know it has been a long story so far, and I have been told by more than a few doctors that it is just in my head!!!!!!
But, today I saw a psychiatrist - for the first time, as part of my involvement in the "Professor Tess Cramond-Multidisciplinary-Pain-Clinic" - at the Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, at Herston, (on Brisbane's Northside). I am still mentally 'drained' from the experience - my Dr, (she) was so nice and able to ask the exactly right questions - that I found myself travelling backwards and forwards, through my life's "timeline", almost effortlessly.
I was in there with my Dr (and another student/Dr too), discussing everything - from my episode with the "influenza-shot" (and my associated auto-immune reaction), to my car-accident in July 2011 (the sacroilliac-joint nerve-compression has prevented me from working since then, ok!), to right-back - to when my Dad died (I was 14-yo), and how my mum didn't cope then - back to my birth! The whole 'poster-place-card' of my life - compressed into a discussion which lasted over 2-hrs.
When I was asked to close my eyes and try to remember my last day with Dad - that was tough! I thought I would be ok, after all, it is 32-years ago... I crumbled, I could not stop it from happening.. After a minute or two of choking on my tears - I just let it bubble-over. So, I cried for a few minutes - but I did manage to go through the moments that I shared with Dad - on his last day. ... And, by the time I had recovered from that, things really became a lot easier. Thanks God.
By the way - Happy Halloween! --- Do you like psychiatrists?
p.s. Our chicken 'Polly' ...R.I.P (disappeared, 6th October, 2012), she was the real 'party-animal' at our place. She leaves behind - her other girlfriend, 'Merl-the-Girl'.
But, today I saw a psychiatrist - for the first time, as part of my involvement in the "Professor Tess Cramond-Multidisciplinary-Pain-Clinic" - at the Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, at Herston, (on Brisbane's Northside). I am still mentally 'drained' from the experience - my Dr, (she) was so nice and able to ask the exactly right questions - that I found myself travelling backwards and forwards, through my life's "timeline", almost effortlessly.
I was in there with my Dr (and another student/Dr too), discussing everything - from my episode with the "influenza-shot" (and my associated auto-immune reaction), to my car-accident in July 2011 (the sacroilliac-joint nerve-compression has prevented me from working since then, ok!), to right-back - to when my Dad died (I was 14-yo), and how my mum didn't cope then - back to my birth! The whole 'poster-place-card' of my life - compressed into a discussion which lasted over 2-hrs.
When I was asked to close my eyes and try to remember my last day with Dad - that was tough! I thought I would be ok, after all, it is 32-years ago... I crumbled, I could not stop it from happening.. After a minute or two of choking on my tears - I just let it bubble-over. So, I cried for a few minutes - but I did manage to go through the moments that I shared with Dad - on his last day. ... And, by the time I had recovered from that, things really became a lot easier. Thanks God.
By the way - Happy Halloween! --- Do you like psychiatrists?
p.s. Our chicken 'Polly' ...R.I.P (disappeared, 6th October, 2012), she was the real 'party-animal' at our place. She leaves behind - her other girlfriend, 'Merl-the-Girl'.
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