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[rootofnewt]

too much driving today.

drove to georgetown and back... pre-op testing is done... don't have to go back til 10:15am friday.

*yawn*

you'd think a nurse who JUST had to search the whole damn floor to find a non-latex tourniquet would know better than to try to use a bandaid after the blood draw.

*sigh*

listened to xiane last night. boy was happy. he likes her show. he told me we'll have to listen every sunday night. hopefully we'll have some spare cash the next time WNRN has a fund drive. since we won't have the oompa loompa whammy of surgery-illness-moving-surgery on us, i'm sure we can swing it. :)

i hope boy feels better soon. he really needs to see someone about this anxiety. :/

i should probably go help him with the dishes. if i can stand up that long. *yawn*

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[ismene.livejournal.com]

Band-Aids contain latex? Even the fabric ones?

[krasota.livejournal.com]

as far as i know, yes.

curad also contains latex.

3M has a number of NRL-free products. sparkle bandages are NRL-free.

being me, i react to 3M's NRL-free adhesive tapes (durapore and paper tape = blisters; tegaderm, transpore, foam tape = rash deemed acceptable risk by doctors).

lovely.

Recovering Anxiety Maven

[risabe.livejournal.com]

>>i hope boy feels better soon. he really needs to see someone about this anxiety. :/ <<

I *so* know what he is going through. I have had bouts, spells, episodes with anxiety and depression for years. I started taking Zoloft in January and I've been much better, I think. Things don't seem to get to me as deeply, or as I explined it to Tripp; it's like my mind can't follow those same pathways to the place where I used to go and obsess and freak out.

Is this situational? Is he worried over your health, work, etc? He *is* reaching the age when these things beset on me. Sorry to tell you that! :( I was about 26-28 when I started getting "lit up" so to speak.
I don't like being on drugs (of which I unfortunately have to take mmany, now) but I don't like being so damn anxious and tense all the time more.

Re: Recovering Anxiety Maven

[krasota.livejournal.com]

anxiety, depression, and various other mental health issues run in his family. he's *always* been high strung and subject to melancholy. i think part of it's situational, but a lot of it is just inherent/genetic/whatever. i honestly think he *needs* the right combination of medication and therapy/counselling. i hate drugs, too, but hell--this is probably a chemical imbalance and he's not gonna fix it on his own. he's just gonna spiral down.

the situational stuff just exacerbates everything. :/

thanks, dearie. you're not scaring me. i KNEW he'd flip out one of these days--i was hoping for anxiety over schizophrenic or dissociative disorders. so long as he's neurotic, rather than psychotic, i can deal. yeah, i get angry, stressed, and need to vent, but i *can* do that. with psychosis, he'd be dangerous.

he's looking for a tai chi or chi gung group. and then, when he's feeling more *together*, he'll probably take up karate. i think the mental discipline combined with meditation and physical exertion will ALL be very good for him. his dad does all that and i'm sure it's kept him just on this side of sane all these years (he'd be VERY difficult to live with if he didn't have the outlets of tai chi, tai chi chen, and shotokan karate). tom has wonderful flexibility and motor skills, and he WANTS to do it. i may have to actually call and get him signed up, though... kick in his arse. ;)