So, because I'm lucky, I've been having a few blood tests done alongside taking medication and going through therapy so the doctors can be sure that what I'm dealing with is indeed a mood disorder and not something that looks like a mood disorder but isn't.

Originally, my doctor got me to have a regular blood test, nothing fancy, just to check if ( Read more... )

So, I had that assessment this morning...At 8:45. I was awake at 7 am. Now, I know to a lot of perfectly civilised people out there, that's actually not that early, but for someone who often isn't awake until 11 and certainly isn't out of bed at that time, seven o'clock might as well have been 4 am or something.

We left in plenty of time, had Macca' ( Read more... )

So, poppets, I'm housesitting for the next few days (because I'm lucky). M and V are going to visit M's parents and they needed, as usual, someone to watch the remaining pup (LuDog) and the cats. So, as I say, here I am until about midmorning on Sunday. No worries ( Read more... )

So, second appointment with Dr. Moppet was at 3 pm today. He ran late. I was annoyed.

He asked about how I was doing. I hate that question...How are you ever supposed to respond without sounding like a drama queen?! I told him the truth; I feel more composed than I did last week (no tears today, thankfully), but my mood is really, really flat and ( Read more... )