*whispering* Hello, it's me...

sch00lteacher

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Hello friends and family. I am writing this to check in with everyone who cares, to let you know that I am still alive and kicking around the net. I haven’t forgotten you. It has only been a week since I lost my mind temporarily and made a big fool out of myself.

I wanted to make sure that I apologized to Killermuffin. KM you are someone who I have admired all along. I love reading your posts. There is no excuse for including you in my explosion last week, that was all me. I offer the apology, I hope you accept it. If you can not I understand, and I will still hold you in admiration, and still read what you have to share.

I have given a hell of a lot of thought as to what happened last week. I have been trying to figure out what happened to me. I have a lot of excuses I could offer. That doesn’t seem right somehow. It isn’t just one or two things, it is a hell of a lot of things. Some big, some small, all of them eating at me at once, very few of them having anything to do with Literotica at all. Some of you know what I have been going through, a lot of you don’t. The ones that don’t know me very well, or what has been going on in my life were the ones that seemed the most upset. It is to these ‘newbies’ that I guess I feel a need to explain myself and actions too.

On November 6th of 2001 I had a total hip replacement on the right side. I had the left one done in June of the same year. I also suffered a heart attack on May 1st of last year. Not a fun year for me. Anyhow, I have been at home since 11/6/01. I have been in a good deal of pain since 11/6/01. I have been taking a lot of pain medication since 11/6/01. Even my stay at the hospital this last time was different. I was not acting normal. I was a total pain in the ass to the staff, I would not stay in bed, and they came close to tying me in.

My last doctor’s visit at the VA hospital, the doctor wanted me to have a psychiatric evaluation done. This after talking to me, and my wife who the doctor demands accompany me on my visits (she doesn’t lie to him, I do). I haven’t heard yet when it is going to be. The VA isn’t known for moving fast. He is talking about one of these full day things where they hit you with all the cute little tests you learn about in psychology 101. If it was just up to me I would have told him to shove it. My actions last week help me to understand that maybe, just maybe, I do need to follow through on this. I have been taking medication for depression and anxiety for a long time. I have suffered all my life with those.

So, my ‘new’, and old friends. My doctor thinks I am nuts. I have been sitting at home in constant pain, and doped up for almost three full months. I was getting almost all of my outside contact with humanity through the board. You can’t do that, the board is not reality. I tried. I lost it.

I am not going to come back full time. I am not ready to. I have enjoyed visiting other web sites, ones that I have been ignoring for awhile. But I do think I will come back every now and then to check in. To those of you who I gave my email address to, I still check it everyday. Anyone else may feel free to PM me here.

I do ask that if you have something really negative to tell me that you PM me instead of doing it in public. I can take a lot of things in private that I can not in public. When attacked publicly I feel the need to defend myself strongly.

If nothing else, just ignore me. I am after all just a crazy old man ;)

I will be in and out. Hope you don’t mind. I will try not to mess the place up too much.

Be good.



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I miss your posts:)

and it is only a few I would miss:)

you are one:)

Come back, be yourself:)

I did the same and I am here
 
It's OK. I understand, but thanks for stopping by. see you around.:)
 
Shhhhhhhh......

Good to see you and your darling Teddy Bear back.

Try not to be so hard on yourself. Sometimes we need for an outburst to happen for us to see for ourselves that we do need some help. (It happened to me when I decided to stop my meds for "financial" reasons!) I actually saw for myself how different I felt and acted, and will not intentionally do something like that again.

You have certainly been through so very much, and there are times that meds need to be altered and it takes so dang long to fully adjust.

You have a loving wife, wonderful furry friends and buddies on the board. You are not alone, and I know I'll always be looking forward to seeing you here. Best of luck with all the tests and your healing. Hang in there, ok?:)
 
Hi! :)

I miss you. Personally I don't think you are an old fart or nuts.
Now me? I am nuckin futs. :D
Seriously? My hubby had an emergency triple heart bypass. And he was on some serious medication. For a long time his personality changed. I have done a lot of research on the net and have found info that is very helpful.

I hated all the side effects that the medication gave him. He was moody, irritable, constantly tired, slightly depressed and did not want outside company at all. We nearly split up as I didn't know how to help or continue to cope. And the doctor we had said he was 'just' finding it hard to come to terms with facing 'his mortality' and perhaps an anger management course would help. ??? She would not even listen to what he had to say about feelinb better when he forgot to take his pills.
We changed Doctors (as our old GP would not listen to what we had to say) and he told us that a general anaesthetic can (not does) cause a person to have a personality change, for some it is slight and others a complete 180 degree change and others no noticeable change at all.
So with his supervision we 'fiddled' with his medication. (Always know the side effects. ASK. ASK. ASK.)
We, together as a team, through trial and error found out that he had side effects from some of the medications he was on and they were changed.
It was hard for hubby to say what was really going on except to me. Sometimes I became his spokesperson.


I wish you well. :)

PS Please PM me your email address again? Dmn blonde I am deleted your PM. ( A habit I have)
 
We like you:)
We accept you:)

Do not worry about anything else, my friend:)

Live life that you haveyes?:)
 
Welcome back, it was not the same without you, you are the one who makes it all come together.
 
Well, I looked through the first few pages. A lot of new names. And a lot of the same ol’ stuff that was going on a whole week ago. Boy a week away from here sure seems like a long time.

But now I am going to go. I do not want to spend all morning here. I may be back later to check in.

Again. For every one I pissed off, I apologize. My fault, no excuses. I should have kept my ‘mouth shut’ and carried on. I will try to do that in the future. But I wouldn’t want to bet on it. Sometimes you just gotta say what needs to be said.

Have a happy Saturday everyone. I hope you all enjoy your weekend.

Poof, I’m gone.
 
sch00lteacher said:
Sometimes you just gotta say what needs to be said.


So do I. I predicted you'd be back. Not like it was a difficult choice to make but I told you so. :p
 
Hey teach!

Life happens.

Then, we do things we may regret later.

Then, we face it, think alot and come back!


*hugs*



MissT
 
:)

Hey teach! huggggggggs!

Glad I am to see you!

You are lucky you posted, I had no reply to my mail...not that you have to rush to answer ;) but I was going to send you another today. I'm happy to hear things are a bit better!

Keep in touch! :)
 
Pain changes us somehow.... Remember that... and some medications have severe side effects on people.... and too, after 2 major surgeries and a heart attack a little depression is expected... any one of those is a major life changing event and you had three in one year... not to mention on leave from your job, and little or no outside contact.... so now I'm up to five major life events... most people have trouble coping with only one or two... so give yourself a break... we are here if you need us.... and take care of yourself....
 
I'm not here much anymore, but here's a quick howdy from me.

No problems on this end. I'm not purely sane myself. :D

The VA. You poor guy. *sighs*
 
hey teach

As I said in your orginal thread, nothing is carved in stone. Glad to have you around when it's right for you - the place is a composite of all who contribute, but it's not an obligation, so tend yourself and make sure you and the family are OK first... if you have stuff left over for us, that's our gain.
 
Welcome back.

Don't worry about whether you are 'nuts' or not. Just look around the board, its pretty well compulsory!:D :D :D
 
sch00lteacher said:

But now I am going to go. I do not want to spend all morning here. I may be back later to check in.

I just wanted to say hi in case I miss you later. I'm glad everything is going well for you and keep us up to date about your hip.

Some of us worry and care.

:D

But not me of course.

:p
 
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