Reflection
I figured I’d better take the maintenance screen down so people wouldn’t think I was gone for good. I’m not sure if I want to be gone for good yet, we’ll see.
Temporarily, I wanted to take a step back because I was feeling very sorry for myself, wallowing, drinking lots of wine, smoking too many cigarettes. Just not doing good at all and I didn’t want to talk about it.
I hate when I allow myself to wallow because you can’t go anywhere from there. Well, you can. You can go up… but I never see that when I’m wallowing.
It’s going to be a long, hard road til R and I are together again, this I know. But I can make the best of it or I can’t… and I’d much rather make the best of it.
This isn’t some rah, rah siss boom bah bullshit post. I need to make a decision to make things better and I’m attempting to do so. I’m going to have good days and bad days. Hey, sorta like LIFE.
One thing I need to do is stop drinking so much - as I take a sip of wine… ha. But it’s the first glass I’ve had in a few days and trust me, the way I was getting? That’s great for me.
All I wanted to do every day after work was have a drink (or two, or more) and go to bed early because I didn’t want to feel anything.
The problem with not wanting to feel anything is you don’t feel anything good, either. Everything suffers. I’m not as patient with the teen, I don’t get much done at work, I walk around like a zombie, I keep the house clean to the bare minimum it takes to not be a complete slob (sometimes).
And this is the daylight hours, when I’m NOT drinking. When I AM drinking, I’m sad, I’m morose, I’m basically inconsolable.
My saving grace has been the people that listen to me day in and day out, advise me on Navy things I don’t understand, calm me down when I panic and think R is not giving me one thought. Those people know who they are and I thank them immensely.
When you feel your sanity hanging on by a thread, the last thing you need to do is drink. I’m not saying once in a while, blowing off steam when you’re stressed, when you want to have a good time.
Like tonight, I’m having a glass of wine because my back is hurting, my sister is stressing me out, I want to unwind (oh, and I’m scared to take the Rx I got - more on that later).
When it’s bad is when I’m at work and all I can think of is when I can come home, drink enough so I can pass out and forget it all.
I can’t be the support to R that he needs me to be if I can’t support myself. I can’t do anything when I can’t support myself.
R said in San Diego that my main focus is missing him and he can not make his main focus missing me. I get that. I understand it. As melodramatic as it may sound, people’s lives are dependent upon R as his life is dependent upon other people.
No, he’s not on the “front lines”. He’s not in Iraq or some place else with a lot of sand, yet. But I can tell you when he is there… I don’t want the person he’s standing next to first thought to be their significant other back home.
If you haven’t heard, my back finally got to the point where I had to drag myself into the doctor. Yeah, I did have to wait for my insurance to kick in at the new job but that was last month… why didn’t I make an appointment as soon as I was able?
Because it would get better and not hurt as much, I didn’t want to spend the money, take the time off work and plus - I was wallowing. Who takes care of themselves when they’re too busy wallowing about things they can’t change - and fix things they can?
I sat down yesterday and a pain shot through my entire back, up through my shoulder and into my neck. And it really freaked me out. I wanted to kick myself for letting it go for so long. For not taking care of myself, getting well and getting back into the gym… which is what I REALLY need to maintain my sanity.
I made an appointment today with an Ortho doctor but they couldn’t fit me until Friday. I debated on going to Urgent Care to get something to relieve the pain and I decided, again, I didn’t want to spend the money. A $35 Urgent Care co-pay was standing in between me and getting something to feel better.
What finally made me decide to go was the fact both R AND my Dad put some extra funds in my account so I’d GO, already. I was really touched by that. Two people wanting to take care of me when I’m not even taking care of myself. I went from not wanting to spend the money to extra money that I didn’t have yesterday so I thought: Just go, dammit.
I went. The doctor didn’t tell me much since I told her I already had an appointment on Friday. I’m glad she didn’t. I didn’t want to have x-rays there and then have them again on Friday. She did say she doesn’t think it’s a pinched nerve or a herniated disk, that it’s something to do with the muscles in my lower back.
She felt my back and the lump there and also noticed another one on the other side (great). She exclaimed: “Whoa! This doesn’t hurt when I touch it?!”
Look, I’m a complainer about everything under the sun about things that don’t matter. But this is me, the girl that had to argue with intake nurses when I was in labor when they didn’t want to admit me, saying I was too calm.
So see, I can handle stressful, hurtful, not fun situations. So I have to ask myself: How did I let it get this bad?
