Posted by femlite1 on February 2, 2004, at 12:28:48
In reply to insomnia strikes again, posted by Lyrical13 on January 20, 2004, at 0:07:20
Hi Lyrical,
This has been soooo frustrating. My password failed to work. Ive been trying to get on site and respond to your letter for at least 2 weeks. I feel so bad. Even though I couldnt help it, I know how it feels to extend yourself and feel ignored. I hope you are okay. I have been thinking of you. Your life sounds very hectic. But also fulfilling, no? And your husband sounds wonderfully supportive.
I am in my 40s and just finishing my Associates. I had a difficult pregnancy and had to drop out after 1 1/2 years. For the past 10 years I’ve been a full time home schooling mom. Just in the past 2 years my mental and physical health has taken front seat in my life, in all our lives. My mental health is something I’ve wrestled with for 30 years. At times I have wished I was a more "balanced” mom. But somehow I have managed. When my back got unbearable and I became peri-menapausal it all came unglued. So now, 2 years later I am trying to pick up the pieces and going back to school seemed a needed infusion of purpose. We are hoping to move as soon as we sell our house. We have been a "farm" family for the past three years, horse farm that is. But I need more help now with the girls education, I’m loosing mental energy and don’t feel as inspired, I think its called burnout :)
And my physical health won’t allow me to continue our rural lifestyle. So for these and other reasons, we are hoping to move back into the city. I don’t expect I will have my Bachelors before the girls are grown but then I will be ready to use it! So we have a plan, physical therapy is going well and if I could get my head and meds straight, there may be hope for me to have a purpose in the health industry.
Keep in touch. Have you roused any interest on the chat room yet
poster:femlite1
thread:301939
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