@dannyboy You both are surrounded with Light here!!! I call what I do reiki but I was doing a form of Energy Healing that I came back from NDE just "knowing" what to do. A friend who is Certified Reiki Master "attuned" me saying she was only enhancing what I was instinctively already doing and I read the books she recommended to me. This was one of them. Do you have a Kindle? They are great to download books to and if you are an Amazon Prime member there are many you can download for free with Prime membership.
I am having my son added to my deed at the brick ranch. He and his wife will have home ownership now and this will save us having to probate a will and when I pass its all his. They will continue to feed the ferals and my goats there. He has strong ties to the land there too .
unnghhh ... yeah I hear ya about that wire scrub brush for intestines called magnesium citrate *sigh* definitely eat now and ease in the "clear liquids" stage to make things ... erm...smoother... well .. as smooth as they can be anyways 🙏🏻💜🙌💜🙏🏻
Hi, newbie here. 😎 Please send prayers and healing for my feline fur boy Teddi. He's been sick with a possible ear infection, possibly something more serious. He'll turn 17 on June 14 and until fairly recently was healthy and full of energy. Three weeks ago he suddenly lost power in his back legs and fell down the stairs. Rushed him to the ER vet only to drop a small fortune to learn what he didn't have: kidney disease or diabetes (big relief there). Since his regular vet has been treating him for a possible inner ear infection, he's become steadier on his back legs, but is still wobbly. He's also been losing weight, has muscle wasting, and has begun eating double his normal daily diet. He's my sweetheart senior fur baby. Thanks for listening.
@obiwan sending 🙏🏻💜💚💜🙏🏻 Has he been checked for hyperthyroidism? The 3 major dis-eases of senior felines are renal disease, diabetes and thyroid disease. As diabetes has been ruled out as well as kidney disease ... the weight loss and increased appetite would seem to point to hyperthyroid. If a senior bloodwork panel was done it should show that. Increased white blood cell values would indicate infection. Senior cats and dogs both can get a condition called vestibular syndrome that affects them as well. My senior feline has diabetes as well as thyroid disease. It can be managed with medication and improve quality of life. Thank goodness not diabetes ... my baby's insulin is 157.00 a bottle which is only good for two months... so a good bit of waste there ... wish I could get in smaller vials. Then there is the syringes and glucose testing supplies. So I understand your concerns. Sending Healing Energy and prayers for the Highest Good for all concerned.... and may correct diagnosis be found expediently.
@journeywithme2, thank you! This is so helpful!! Teddi hasn't been checked for hyperthyroidism. He has another visit scheduled for tomorrow (Monday), so I will be sure to discuss this with his vet, especially given his increased appetite and night vocalization, along with voluminous peeing. The blood work was done at the ER facility, which for several reasons won't be on my 'return' or 'recommend' list 😕, so I'll be sure to probe my regular vet for what those results revealed beyond what the ER vet told me.
Very sorry to hear about your fur baby--and the hit to your wallet. 🤑 Holding you both in my thoughts to punch more sweet, mellow time on your dance card.
@dannyboy Grateful to you for your mentoring gift to new teachers. When I began my teaching career, my mentor headed the English Dept and she wasn’t helpful at all. A cruel and vindictive person, she collected addtl salary but left me on my own. Often, she targeted me and withheld funds for books I’d requested. Mentorship is vital to learning and growth. Bravo to you! We can turn the harshest tides sometimes if we stay true to the life-giving values we hold close to our hearts. Be well and resilient. xo
I really feel for your daughter. And you.
My advice, be her people. Hug her a lot. Tell her you are proud. Remind her she is precious. healing, and declare that you are survivors. Together.
See if she will voice her anger to you, knowing nothing she says or does will ever stop the flow of love between you and she doesn't need to protect you.
You can't control his terribleness but you can throw love at her, and help the healing,
Also helpful to work on staying in the moment. I am recovering from PTSD myself. My loved one helps me stay in the moment through the sheer force of his deep love for me. When I begin to flashback and panic he talks to me quietly,, makes and hold eye contact and holds me or holds my hand, physically pulling me into the present. It helps.
It is hard to come out of the trauma. It feels like the past is also the present. The body and heart remember. The spirit reacts in fear,, anger, grief over and over. Fight or flight kicks in. It can feel hopeless, disorienting, making it hard to connect with anyone, even yourself.
Someone said to me, that is over now. You are safe in this moment. That helped.
There are times when I just need to cry. That I feel unstuck in time and panic. Being hugged tightly calms down the nervous system. Focusing on what you hear, see, smell ,touch, taste, grounds you in the present.
Some days are a slow slog, others a bit better. You can recover. LOVE LEADS THE WAY.
And Jaidy, my tablet opened right at your post.,I was meant to bring you this message and I offer it with love for your daughter. I know the pain of not being able to help my struggling daughter.
Know this, things can get better. Weave a web of love to sustain her. Your mothers love is a powerful force.
my daughter and I are v close, we had the same abuser but I was an adult and could get out. I am her person and she tells me everything, we do grounding activities , showers help her, i tell her she is safe, I give her reiki, I am a mama bear. But the thing that you said about the past feels like the present; I guess the only thing I can offer her is just what I have been- she feels she can’t control how ‘bad her class is’ and it doesn’t feel safe so having to ask her to go every day is wrenching me.
besides your support, I so appreciate your articulation of what it feels like to experience PTSD. She is incredibly mature and intelligent but her amygdala gets flooded and she is far too overwhelmed to express anything but anger and sadness; sometimes she too just needs to cry. She feels overwhelming responsibility to fight bc her little sister is a freezer and now at school that is a well worn path and it’s just too much to ask right now of her to break ground on a new path. I wish she had more adults in her life that offered a safe haven. She does feel disoriented and she is struggling to connect with others and probably herself- I needed to understand that. I’m having a mtg with the team at school Thursday- I have no doubt it was no accident, there are none anyway:) gratitude to you and the others who offered their support- this community is a blessing.
@earthangel I had a good mentor - I'm so sorry you did not. When I was completing my Ed.S. degree this past fall one of my final projects was revamping our own new staff mentoring process here at my org because it was a worthless set of checklist items. Prior to this I had built a mentoring program specifically for that work in our local districts. Now my boss wants me to add a new component of it - mentoring the mentors. It's a lot to fit into a very small sliver of my time here but I make it work in my calendar because as you put it - mentorship is vital to learning and growth. I couldn't do this well if I hadn't had the mentor I had, who asked probing reflective questions rooted in coaching. Can't wait to develop that next puzzle piece next year.
@dannyboy, your post touched me deeply, in a beautiful, life-affirming way.
You shine your light with courage, purpose and passion, and are a constant source of hope and inspiration to me. Thank you for sharing the gift of your presence with us, @dannyboy. Thank you for reminding us what really matters in life. May the light you generously give to others reflect back to you a hundredfold.