STUPID BEYOND COMPREHENSION - going, going, gone...
My apologies to "goingonhope", "Ron", "Marie", and everyone else who read this and took offense. None was intended, I hadn't even read the other posts when I wrote this. I was just listing my current feeling, not replying to any other post. I was still feeling very angry and stupid about myself and my medical situation.
I was not responding to anyone, but myself. I was simply letting out how much I hated myself at that moment. "I was feeling stupid beyond even what I could comprehend, and I wanted to crawl under the nearest rock I could find!" It was an ongoing reaction/battle that I was having with myself. In my earlier post I was more angry with myself and my doctors, but by this point I felt completely stupid and deserving of the additional pain and distress I was in. I stupidly allowed the ICU doctors to put me on a medication that I know is potentially lethal to me. And when I wrote this I was exhausted, throwing up every few minutes, and needed to be intubated to breathe. And I felt that I deserved everything that was happening to me because I was too stupid to look closely at the pills to see that they weren't what I was supposed to be given.
I am terribly sorry for the misunderstanding I created by blurting out my feeling without reading what preceded it, but sometimes that's all I can do. But for those of you who know me at all, you know that the only person that I put down or feel is unworthy is me. I feel even worse now! "
"goingonhope" you wrote a very caring and generous reply to my concerns, which I liked once I read it, but by then you had already been hurt by my post which had nothing to do with yours. I am so very sorry to you! I hope you can see it for what it was and find it in your heart to forgive me. If not, I don't blame you. I am pretty toxic to most everyone I come in contact with.
"Ron" thank you for questioning what I meant and asking me to elaborate. I'd rather hurt myself than anyone else on here. I hope both of you would read my first (?) post from earlier today, and know that my stupid post was not a "shot at anyone but me".
And Marie thank you for your support to ALL affected. This forum is supposed to be safe and encouraging and I inadvertently didn't see how my words could be misread. I usually take great care in writing any post, because words do have the power to heal and to hurt, and mine hurt at least two others on here. I honestly think it is better if I just shut up, because there is too much guilt and shame in what I did.
Unfortubately I can only apologize and hope that all of you will will choose to accept it.
I think I should have just crawled under that rock and stayed silent.
With much regret for the pain I've caused,
Alex