tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88510949671163422.post6386672226187872189..comments2023-10-10T03:56:14.237-06:00Comments on Celtic Lady: BLACK AND BLUEJuliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17693598787241469220noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88510949671163422.post-40249430617102058162010-03-02T22:03:05.545-06:002010-03-02T22:03:05.545-06:00Dear Julie, I love your blog and I just stumbled o...Dear Julie, I love your blog and I just stumbled on this particular post. I broke both my knee caps about 5 years ago. I wish I would have used my hands to save my knee instead of my face and I could have gotten a free face lift. Anyway, I lost my job and gained weight, couldn't ride my horses and generally didn't want to do anything even though I have a big ranch.<br /><br />I threw away my depressive medication. (NOT For Anyone) but replaced it with water aerobics. My new job that costs me money but has brought my life back. The weight was on from my meds. I play with the horses, sheep, my goats (and I milk) because of my new energy. I'm happy.<br /><br />A ninety year old lady at my aerobic class told me, she always says, "It could be worse" and my husband says, "Get Over It!" And I'm having a plaque made from the two saying together and hanging over my door.<br /><br />I found what works for me. I walk straight and tall (slow) but not like a penguin, like I have for years. I'll be 60 this October. Accck! I haven't written that down yet. But I'm planning on a new life as busy as I can be. Lots of sewing. BTW I was looking for a Bunad for my daughter who will be celebrating and also running a marathon with her sisters in a group of Scandinavian area in Utah. I've got it almost made. My husband is Norwegian and me...I'm Irish and Scot, just like you. I have family in Minnesota and Bismark, N.D.<br /><br />Anyway, I've written too much. But you are a wonderful person and I love your blog!!! {{{hugs}}} SusanSusanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10615324607341955325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88510949671163422.post-41193072128361842952007-05-18T02:54:00.000-06:002007-05-18T02:54:00.000-06:00I am so sorry to hear about all your woes, you ask...I am so sorry to hear about all your woes, you ask for advice, I think you have done what I would have suggested, and that is to write it all down, then read it all through. Sometimes this gives us a new perspective on things, and we either see a way forward or at the very least have stopped the problems whirling around our head and put them solidly down on paper which can give us relief. Take care, and as a relation of mine was fond of saying 'the worm will turn'.Daisy Lupinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13673588364228846859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88510949671163422.post-37765932839992699012007-05-17T19:17:00.000-06:002007-05-17T19:17:00.000-06:00Julie Marie,I don't know what input or advice I ca...Julie Marie,<BR/><BR/>I don't know what input or advice I can give you. I can only tell you that I have been in this exact same place and my heart goes out to you. I have spent the last three years struggling with the inconvenience and very real fears brought on by unemployment. I have finally, just two weeks ago, found a regular, full time postion. It is not what I have worked at in the past but it is a good job with a good company with good benefits and decent pay. I am so very grateful to finally be back in the workaday world.<BR/><BR/>As for the depression, it is something I struggle with everyday. I think I have always, to some extent, been depressed but it was only six years ago that it became full blown. A traumatic event in my life is what brought it to the forefront and when I had constant thoughts of letting my car go off the road and smash into a tree I knew I needed professional help. Thanks to a wonderful doctor, medication, and a loving and supportive husband I have managed to turn myself around. There are still days when I find myself in a horrible blue funk but I don't think about killing myself and I don't have that terrifying feeling of being smothered by some heavy black cloud that makes me feel I cannot breathe.<BR/><BR/>No one's pain or struggle is exactly like that of someone else but I hope that by knowing that someone understands it will bring you some small measure of comfort. <BR/><BR/>VickiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88510949671163422.post-89040392751103755022007-05-16T18:16:00.000-06:002007-05-16T18:16:00.000-06:00Jules,"Dark though the night, joy cometh with t...Jules,<BR/><BR/>"Dark though the night, <BR/> joy cometh with the morrow."<BR/><BR/> JudeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com