A few days in the hospital psyche ward, some pretty good food, awesome new drugs to help sleep and untangle thought waves, and out you come all refreshed and happy.
He isn't talking about what happened initially, a few hints here and there but he doesn't want to talk about it. So I am afraid I won't talk about it here either.
He does seem to be a bit calmer and more extroverted but that could be my imagination. He is being very pleasant overall.
He saw his old psychiatrist, the one he had originally. This particular doctor is pretty amazing. Monte has a lot of respect for him. But he resigned his position here to treat geriatric patients only and to be the hospital emergency psychiatrist. I am going to tell Monte that in the future act up, get taken to emergency, get admitted to the psyche ward and get an appointment with Dr. Smit. Thats one way to get an appointment with a psychiatrist in a town completely devoid of one. Lol!!!
Anyway Smit phoned me and asked my opinion of Monte's current status. I asked him to convince him to go on some new to him drugs. It would be great if he could take something that would help untangle his thoughts a little. And he came home happy, new pills in hand and willing to take them. I hope it lasts. I am not sure how he gets refills. He absolutely loathes his current doctor and doesn't go to him anymore.
So now the dust has settled and on to the next thing. I need to prepare for our road trip. We are leaving either the fourth or fifth of October. I have had both girls and their significant others visiting over the last few days. It has been hugely awesome. I love spending time with them.
One activity of note....Jeni is in town and the four of us, April, Myles, Jeni and myself decided to take a picnic out to a most beautiful spot about forty minutes up the highway towards Ukey and Tofino. It's the Taylor River. She drove us out this little rough road to a little rough parking spot. There was a not too long a walk to an incredibly steep rocky rooty path straight down a long steep path. Now this old hefty blister has basically not really moved much out of her old recliner for the past six years. I take a fist full of pills that make me dizzy and off balance and I do have a penchant for falling. One of these times something under layers of fat will break. And I can just see the rescue people being called to help me up and out.
So grabbing foliage at the side of the path, bent right over, hands on the ground, grabbing the nearest person....I slid and stepped and rolled all the way to the bottom. It was quite a ways..for me! Then I sat on a blanketed (thank you Jeni) rock for the next 2-3 hours. It was stunningly beautiful down there on that river rocky beach.
Now it was time to go back up. UP^^^!!! I don't generally do up...up anything! But off we go! I planted hands on the ground, used rocks and roots as steps, and away we went. At the top I had to sit on a log, my heart was pounding...in my ears!!! Tandy taught me a long long time ago that if something is tired on the body, feed it oxygen. So long deep breaths and I recovered a lot faster than I deserved. I thought for sure the next day I wouldn't be able to move but not a pain anywhere. In fact I felt fantastic!!!
So now it's list making, house regulating, laundry, packing, checking the spare tire in the van, buying a looooong extension cord for Monte's gasper.....plus tomorrow we need to pick up his new twin mattress for the van after taking a mountain of cardboard to the recycling to empty out the van. Every time we think of selling the van... something comes up and we thank goodness we didn't.
Well thats it for today. I hope this finds you all fat and happy!!!!! TFL & TTYL
“I’m at a place in my life when errands are starting to count as going out.”
– Unknown. this is exactly what my life is!!!! When I read this quote it totally resonated with me. Lol!!!
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