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LostinSpaceandTime's picture

I have been having a lot of health issues lately. I mostly put it all off to stress. There have been a great many stresses this past year.
One of which being my DD 29 becoming estranged and only letting me see my GD4 once this whole year. According to my ex our DD is in therapy now and being treated for something that may have contributed to her mental state that led to our situation. I have been going to counseling to help me deal with the sadness and grief. I am not trying to contact DD, just letting go and letting God work on it for now.

Anyway the stress has taken it's toll. A couple months ago I lost hearing in my right hear and got ringing/ clicking and blocked feeling. I went to the doctors and even accupuncture but only gained some relief and some hearing back. Nothing they prescribed helped. They just did the hearing test last week and it indicates nerve problem. So they will be doing an MRI with and without contrast dye next week to rule out acoustic neuroma. This is a very scary thing to even think I may have. So if I have it, depending on size and location, etc then treatment is to wait and watch, or consider removing it. Just removing comes with risks and the hearing will likely be lost sooner or later.
I already feel like crap with the constant squawking and ringing in my head, I am so fatigued and have hardly any appetite. I have lost about 8 lbs in two months already.
Of course with the care of the puppies I can't just crawl up in bed and sleep all day.

DH is being very supportive, but I haven't told my sons or Mom and Dad yet. Mom is in the middle of trying to find a new house to buy and I didn't want to upset her any. After the MRI will be soon enough. Maybe they will not find anything. But even then it will be back to square one about why I am having these problems.

Hard to concentrate...ah the moral of this story.
I spent a couple of years dealing with the SD drama crap. And this whole year with the grief of my own DD situation. Time is so precious and cannot ever be regained. I wish I had been stronger thru it all and just told the toxic people to F off. I wish I had not cared and obsessed and ruminated over these people who clearly had no care for me. I wish I had not wasted so much time.
I wish I had poured all that energy into the people I love and not let the evil blackness dwell in my mind and body.
Hindsight is 20/20. Even knowing what I know, fearing that time is slipping away oh so fast, it is hard to shake the grief of this year. I have done many things, accomplished goals, spent time with my mom on a lovely trip, lived in companionship with DH, yet the sadness will not go completely away. I think of my sweet GD4 and wonder does she think I have abandoned her? I used to see her on a regular basis. Life is so unfair. So unfair.

Anyway maybe I am not making any sense. I just needed to write this for me. Steptalk has been a resource for me these past couple years. I follow many of the stories and gain some understanding for how to go on thru the journey.

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LostinSpaceandTime's picture

Thanks for your reply Ripley. I appreciate your kind thoughts.
I am sure the doctors will have a plan once we know for sure what is going on. Medicine is however a practice, because they don't always know what the problem is my Mom says. She is a retired RN.

I will talk to my family soon. My YS 27 has a new 4 month old baby girl and OS31 is expecting his first son in Dec. Plus OS and DIL are dealing with trying to put their house back together after a kitchen fire a couple months ago. I wish I could have helped them more, they had to live in a hotel for several weeks. With my energy level and now the new pups there is no way I could do anything to help them. They have family on DIL side that has been helping a lot.

I just don't want to burden anyone at the moment with my anxiety over a what if it is this or that. It has been something going on with how I feel all summer.
I realize that this too shall pass. It just seems that what it gets replaced with is even worse! :). I try to keep a sense of humor, but some days it drags me down.

I presently do not have my GD address, they moved into a new home this summer and have not given me the address. Her birthday is coming up in December. I think I may open an account and put whatever I would spend into it and give it to her when she is over 18.
Perhaps I can send a small gift and card to her with one of my sons but I do not want to put them in the middle. They have already told their sister this has gone on too long. I have already tried communicating with my daughter and even offered to pay half for counseling for us to resolve the situation. She has refused. I honestly do not know why this has happened, no one who knows me and my daughter can see what could have happened. So I can only hope she gets help for her physical and mental health.
It is just not right for her to deny me and her child seeing each other.
Thank you again.

Lady Danger's picture

I'd like you to know that this post has reaffirmed so much in my life right now. The points you raised about time being precious, and wishing you would not waste it speak to me at this point in my life so loudly. I appreciate your honesty and your post has made a difference in my day.

Don't forget to remain positive and thankful for the blessings you still have. Your hearing and energy may be suffering but you still have mobility and the ability to tell your loved ones you care about them.

As it all comes full circle - your DD will one day too learn the lesson of time you are articulating and feel saddened by wasting it. Daughters inherently love their mothers. You didn't do anything wrong and you are best to turn it over to a higher power until you are better able to cope.

Sending love and light.

LostinSpaceandTime's picture

Thank you Lady Danger for your encouragement. I can only turn it over and hope that one day DD will be well again and want to reconnect. I fear it will never be the close bond I thought we shared. But that was an illusion it seems.

I have read some of your story and am glad you have a plan to begin your new life soon.
I am going to send you a PM in regards to your story.

I am thankful for the blessings in my life. As loud and furry as they are right now. :).
Growing to be positive is the new daily goal.

Thank you again so much. My heart was lifted by the responses from you ladies today.