- Joined
- Saturday January 2, 2016
- Location
- Liverpool
Just generally having a happy kind of day and being happy with it
Our neighbour's 13 year old son was released from hospital today. He was diagnosed with viral meningitis last week and spent 5 days in ICU. His prognosis is very good. He is a very good lad. We have 5 children and 7 grandchildren so our hearts really went out to him, his parents and his sisters.
It's comforting to here that your niece has had minimal side effects after all these years.Nearly lost my niece to meningitis when she was but a toddler .......... She's nineteen now and off to university in a couple of weeks. Never a day passes that I'm not thankful she not only pulled through, but came out of it with minimal side effects.
Good for you Tom, one day at a time, I know.Likewise nowt compared with the above - @Rufus I'm so pleased that your neighbours son has come through - a traumatic experience for the whole family and those (inc you) who care about him. Likewise your niece, @Wishbone
Me? Three days clear of a crippling depressive episode (something I'm very accustomed to, and respect that I may not have reached stability yet, although day four is oft a good indicator for this rapid cycling bunny).
Me also - My beloved (as much as any tech object) Note 4 (smartphone) has just had it's motherboard replaced under warranty (phew, first phone I didn't void the warranty within a couple of days since my old XDA Orbit, which lasted two months prior to hacking) and is ready to collect from the Sammy support centre in Reading.
Well said that man.I do believe that anyone with personal experience of serious clinical depression either in person or through a loved one can appreciate why any period of remission counts as a most excellent good day Tom. Try and hang in there m8, many on this forum can empathise and, like BM says, as so many challenges it's one day at a time.
JohnnyO. o/
Thank you Tom for sharing that with all of us, it takes bravery to lay your card's on the table and I for one find it extremely helpful knowing that there are other's struggling but overcoming their difficulties time and time again when sometimes it may seem easier just to give up, you are like a shining light at the end of a dark tunnel, a real inspiration for all of us.Thank you, @JohnnyO
'tis beastie that I'm used to, along with many others here and elsewhere. Sometimes my lows are fleeting (but a few days or a week) and sometimes, just occasionally, prolonged. The key thing is always to remember that they pass and to hold close that there's a vast accumulation of personal evidence to support (i.e. one has broken free of the mire many times before). Arguably the large black dog is preferable to the irrepressible Lakeland Terrier (at least in my view, again evidence based). And I likes Labradors.
Now to continue breaking out of isolation and partake.