General Evie Ill Once More - Simply Venting!

[Jim]

Thank you Claire and Lisa for your thoughts, much appreciated. We are worried. Evie's been down before. However. It is 5 days now. Quite long for her, hence our concern.

Jim.

 

[grace5555]

Kathy ~

Speaking from a PTSD perspective and coming from someone not doing so well myself right now...I can understand Evie's hurt over those threads and now she feels very exposed and humiliated. I would too and actually have to a smaller extent from the same threads. I do not post much now for that very reason - I know it is PTSD speaking and not rational but there nonetheless. Please tell Evie she is not alone...

 

[Kathy]

Thank you for your wishes Grace, I will pass them on to Evie.

I do have a bit of positive news, in that this evening Evie had a very good discussion with me, opened up to me far more than she has been lately. She is still struggling with feeling down and upset however she seems to be realizing it is her illness and she admitted she is not thinking clearly. I take such insight on her part as a good sign. She has been much calmer this evening.

 

[morgan]

I've noticed Evie struggling lately and saw the threads she was hurt by. I wanted to help and felt helpless. Please let her know That I too am thinking of her and that I hope she comes out of it soon. I miss her input here on the forum. I hope she does come back.

Besides she's on my friends list now, so I'd like us to become friends.:wink:
Best and warmest wishes, Morgan

 

[Kathy]

Thank you Morgan, Evie will be returning, she is simply having a break at the moment. Things are a little improved for her now as she is eating solid food and has been sleeping better. She is not ready to come back online however, still resting.

 

[pastrychefarmywife]

hi kathy and jim,

i am so sorry that your daughter has had to go thru this, two surgeries, and ptsd on top of it.

although i don't know much about whats going on with the threads, but please let her know i wish her all the best, i dont know her personally, but tell her that my thoughts and prayers are with her. I assume that colin is her bf/hubby? let her also know that God has his angels watching over him, and it will be alright.

if i may tell you a story of my hubby. he hadn't called for almost 2 weeks, which isn't out of the ordinary, but when he did call, he said, oh ,i got hit with a IED on the 15th, which is 2 days before our anniversary. any normal wife would have cried her eyes out, but i remained calm. all i could think was that God had his angels with him, and won't let him die. Might have been immature of me to think that way, but to me, God only gives us what we can handle, and he knows i couldn't handle not having him in my life. He has since been to iraq again, 3 times total, and there were times i cried and cried in the shower, cause it was too much. but i knew God had all the angels watching over him, and that he would be ok. I don't know if thats tooo optimistic for you, but he had a little pouch that i made for him, it had 3 angel stones in it. He told me he took them everywhere he went. i might be superstious, but i think those angels saved him.

 

[Kathy]

Pastrychef, thank you for your wishes for Evie. She is around the forum a bit however having a break at the moment, so I will pass on your wishes to her.

I assume that colin is her bf/hubby? let her also know that God has his angels watching over him, and it will be alright.

Colin is Evie's brother. To explain, we have had 3 members of our family, other than Evie, suffering from Combat PTSD. One drank himself to death, one committed suicide, and the third, my eldest son, died in an accident as an indirect result of his PTSD. So to put it briefly, because of the experiences of our family, to Evie, Military equals PTSD, and PTSD equals Death. We feel the same way as Evie, in that we almost worry more about Colin getting PTSD than we do about him dying! Though obviously for Evie it is very intense as she does have the PTSD herself and does not handle stress as well as we do.

Thank you for sharing your story. It is good that you remained calm, I was that way most of the time as well, even when Jim was shot 15 years ago, I was very calm and collected. Though I'm not certain I would be now. In any event, I am thankful your husband was unharmed.

 

[pastrychefarmywife]

ah! thank you for explaining. I am so sorry for your loss. i can see where ptsd could scare and frighten anyone in that situation.

thank you for your kind words, its nice to hear your story and get a insight into the ptsd that surrounds you.

 

[hodge]

Kathy,

I'm so sorry to hear that Evie's been going through such a rough time. I think Lisa expressed my feelings very well.

I am glad to hear your therapy is going well. Keep up the good work.

Please tell Evie I'm thinking of her and hope she can once again feel as good about herself as so many of us do.

Hodge

 

[Kathy]

Thank you Hodge. She is feeling quite a bit better now however still resting and not too active on the forum. She requires an extended rest as this "attack" was quite severe, the PTSD part of it that is. The weather has been quite nice here so she was out with me yesterday and may go out with Jim today.