Easter updates

Easter is over, and I am so happy. It was full of triggers for us. We almost ended up in the hospital, but I was able to go stay with mom and dad, and avoid it. Dr Barry had put weekend support in place for us, just in case we got into crisis, and a hospital bed was needed. She said if we got the weekend service, that if that were to happen, they’d be able to get us in quickly. She wasnt on call this weekend. The weekend service is a service where psychiatric nurses work, they’ll either call to your house to check on you, or else you can have phone support. We opted for the phone support. So each day of the weekend we got a phone call from a nurse, to check in, see if we were ok and if we were suicidal, etc etc. I felt kinda stuck, unable to open up to the nurses, because I didnt know them. Dr Barry had left notes on how we were doing last Thursday, which they read and so they did know a little but not a whole lot. Spent the majority of the weekend as I said with family, went to visit our grandad on Saturday, he was in a really positive mood, which was nice to see. He has had a couple of really bad days lately, dying is hitting him really hard and he’s very angry about it. I think its because he has his full faculties, his mind is 100 percent there but his body is not. We spent an hour or two with him on Saturday, and it was nice. Then yesterday it was just mom and dad and us as our lil sis went with her boyfriends side of the family to an easter egg hunt. Then they all went back to her boyfriends sisters for dinner. I did go visit a friend yesterday afternoon because I had promised to bring her a new book and I was meant to go friday but bailed out then due to tiredness. Other than that I’ve had a pretty chilled out time, despite numerous triggers flooding us. We used our distraction techniques, listening to music, a book, reading facebook, journaling, doing email, anything that would get us through. Tomorrow we are probably going to go to the beach with our mom, and sister and the kids. The weather has been really nice for the last three days and is supposed to be good up till Friday. It will be nice to have a day out I think.
Carol anne