SurvivingThis's Journal - DailyStrength Keep a personal wellness journal on DailyStrength to track your health and communicate with friends. http://dailystrength.org/people/48129/journal Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:40:11 +0100 DailyStrength RSS 0.11.3.0.6833 (FeedCreator 1.7.2) http://dailystrength.org/images/comprofiler/avatar/48129/1213909122.jpg SurvivingThis's Avatar http://dailystrength.org/people/48129 SurvivingThis's entry on 11/25/2008 04:31 http://dailystrength.org/people/48129/journal/1400368 I made it a week.  I can't lie.  It feels like it's been 6 months!!!! Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:31:39 +0100 SurvivingThis's entry on 11/21/2008 03:31 http://dailystrength.org/people/48129/journal/1395112 I HAVE QUIT SMOKING!!!! I am so proud of myself.  I thought it would be harder, but it's not so bad.  A friend of mine at work and I are doing it together.  We would have every break together and smoke away.  My last cigarette was on Tuesday morning at 7:30am.  Toda... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:31:12 +0100 SurvivingThis's entry on 09/25/2008 01:50 http://dailystrength.org/people/48129/journal/1313165 Things are going SOOOOOO well for my son.  He's in 6th grade this year, which means middle school.  He's not going to the same middle school that his elementary school is going to, so it's all new people for him.  At his new school, there is an Autism Support gro... Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:50:54 +0100 SurvivingThis's entry on 08/27/2008 12:28 http://dailystrength.org/people/48129/journal/1267139 Well, I just wanted to update and let all know that I'm doing fine.  We haven't had any more phone calls.  The homefront is good. I find that I'm on this site less and less.  I'm thinking that's a good thing. Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know so no... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:28:39 +0100 SurvivingThis's entry on 08/06/2008 04:57 http://dailystrength.org/people/48129/journal/1231280 Our couseling session was different.  As you can imagine from my last journal, I was ready to go.  I brought up the whole situation about me going with my friend to NYC.  I (and the therapist) could tell my H was getting upset.  The exuses he was giving for not wanting me to go w... Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:57:59 +0100 SurvivingThis's entry on 07/25/2008 09:37 http://dailystrength.org/people/48129/journal/1209522 Well, I'm still having dreams.  Not every night or anything, but still.  I think it boils down to trust.  I don't think of them phsyically together.  It's not those "make you sick" kind of dreams.  They're "he's leaving me again" dream... Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:37:56 +0100 SurvivingThis's entry on 07/13/2008 07:55 http://dailystrength.org/people/48129/journal/1186303 So for the last few weeks, my husband has been having issues with a umbilical hernia.  It's made him feel nausea most of the time and has a hard time eating anything but soup.  It's also made him very cranky. It made me feel insecure.  Like he was going backwards.  I... Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:55:09 +0100 SurvivingThis's entry on 05/23/2008 09:18 http://dailystrength.org/people/48129/journal/1072627 On our way to therapy on Monday, I was thinking about traditions and how the events of last year made it difficult to think about.  So I brought it up in therapy.  For example, last year for Labor Day, we went to a big water park.  The entire family had a blast.  It was so m... Fri, 23 May 2008 09:18:42 +0100 SurvivingThis's entry on 05/19/2008 11:59 http://dailystrength.org/people/48129/journal/1063096 Well, the little whore contacted my husband on his birthday.  She sent him a text saying Happy Birthday! He said his first thought was to forward it to me, but I was at work and I hate bad news at work.  So when I got home, he gave me his phone and told me to look at the messages.... Mon, 19 May 2008 11:59:12 +0100 SurvivingThis's entry on 04/30/2008 12:32 http://dailystrength.org/people/48129/journal/1018640 April 30 @ 1pm After the counciling session on Monday, I've decided that I'm going to back off of this site for a while.  While I still very much enjoy coming here and connecting with people, sometimes it brings up negative thought patterns that I need to work on staying away from ... Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:32:55 +0100 SurvivingThis's entry on 04/25/2008 02:21 http://dailystrength.org/people/48129/journal/1006837 April 25 @ 2:30pm Things are still going well here.  My son seems to have calmed down a bit and my daughter seems more relaxed as well.  I asked her if she is doing ok with dad being home.  She said she doesn't really think about it.  He's here and she's fine wit... Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:21:50 +0100 SurvivingThis's entry on 04/15/2008 03:23 http://dailystrength.org/people/48129/journal/981241 April 15 @ 3:30pm We spoke to my 20 year old daughter about school last night.  She failed out of school last semister and has been talking about going to the local community college.  Well, she's not ready to go back and I'm not ready to waste money.  She wants to go to ... Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:23:42 +0100 SurvivingThis's entry on 04/11/2008 09:24 http://dailystrength.org/people/48129/journal/970315 April 11 @ 9:30am We had our first little "tiff" last night.  He was upset that I had traveled on business with someone who had kind of attacked me.  I was able to handle it (the attack) and made it very clear that I wasn't interested.  He was upset that I said it d... Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:24:41 +0100 SurvivingThis's entry on 04/07/2008 03:44 http://dailystrength.org/people/48129/journal/959608 April 7 @ 3:30pm Things seem to be going well.  He's continued to be very open.  He's continuing to do the things he's said he would.  We go to another counciling session today.  It's probably a good thing because I had a dream Saturday night that he went bac... Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:44:09 +0100 SurvivingThis's entry on 03/11/2008 01:12 http://dailystrength.org/people/48129/journal/890701 March 11 @ 1pmWe had our first counciling appointment last night.  It went pretty well.  My husband continued to be open and answer all questions.  I didn't hold anything back either.  We both like the guy, so we made appointments to meet him seperatly next week.He seems to r... Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:12:03 +0100