TheBanyanTree: Change

[Jena Norton]

Whatever is left of your brain is phenomenal and you can so perfectly articulate what's going on with you. You help us understand the changes you're going through/facing. You are bringing us along on your  journey. And although we're all miles apart, we're still together with you. Hugs!
Jena Norton 

    On Thursday, February 3, 2022, 04:23:21 PM CST, Monique Colve via TheBanyanTree <thebanyantree at lists.remsset.com> wrote:  
 
 Yesterday I stopped putting off the inevitable and called the EAP at my husband's employer. Two doctors, my neurologist and my GP, had asked me to start seeing a psychiatrist and/or a counselor, not because I'm a raving psychotic, but because they believe I will need help getting through my upcoming life phases, and neither of them wants me coming to them. Not that I can blame them, their job is to keep my physical body in some sort of working order, not to listen to me whine.

Calling EAP is no big deal, but Parkinson's has given me the predisposition to cry easily, and so I avoid it. There are triggers, and the last month has been difficult in more than one way. When Sam at EAP said I didn't have to tell him, but it would help if I did, I told him I have Parkinson's, and brain damage, and memory issues, and dementia is considered likely with time. I had to stop work and my life is changing.

No big deal.