tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7743965357861234981.post3919120102505830100..comments2023-06-12T10:56:08.134-05:00Comments on nsomniasaum: BrainstormSaumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05684586617971796705noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7743965357861234981.post-42022959853778737682013-08-07T11:23:48.191-05:002013-08-07T11:23:48.191-05:00Some of what you describe here is familiar to me f...Some of what you describe here is familiar to me from my experiences with my strokes -- though the strokes weren't painful, just disorienting. Profoundly disorienting. And then my (trusty, ever-reliable) brain wasn't what I thought it had been. This was several years ago now, but it changed me. <br /><br />I've been unbelievably fortunate in the elasticity of my brain tissue. There are areas of brain damage, but my vision came back to me, and so did my ability to speak coherently the way I wanted to do. But the experience shook my sense of self. And reading this post reminds me of that. <br /><br />Thank you for sharing your experience. That sounds corny but I really mean it. I'm humbled by what you're going through and by your recounting of it. If it's okay with you, I will hold you in my prayers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7743965357861234981.post-11597140628160311582013-08-06T13:00:44.651-05:002013-08-06T13:00:44.651-05:00Saumya, you are the best.
Love, RandallSaumya, you are the best.<br />Love, RandallAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14200506252226300545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7743965357861234981.post-312042989572701232013-07-23T21:04:47.843-05:002013-07-23T21:04:47.843-05:00I can only imagine how stressful it must be for yo...I can only imagine how stressful it must be for you. You are such a powerful communicator and it must be frustrsting losing the connection to the mind. Please allow time to heal and kep your stress levels calm. Urban is streadfaast in his love and caring and will provide the continuity. I wish your peace and health and keep you both in my prayers. Best of everything to you.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02413747721424401385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7743965357861234981.post-91249073637858518402013-06-30T18:48:09.866-05:002013-06-30T18:48:09.866-05:00You're not alone, Saum. All that you are feel...You're not alone, Saum. All that you are feeling is what I've gone through, but over a different disorder. I, too, have gone through times when my surroundings were alien, memory loss over where I am, who I am, and how did I get here? Lucky there is still some functioning going on enough for you (and I, as I relate to you while writing this to you) for us to start to decode.<br /><br />All of the nonsensical words you crossed out in this blog post all made sense to me -- your brain is jumbled, the words a code giving deeper clues into what you are conveying -- just like how other mentally disabled people talk. Explaining it may seem weird in and of itself, because whenever I do it, I feel crazy talking about it, but it's real and it's emotionally painful.<br /><br />I can't say fully I know your pain as you know it, yet I've suffered from two concussions, and deal with painful emotional and personality dysfunction enough on a daily basis to make things a tad difficult to deal with other people. The anxiety is the worst. Like you say, "be as kind to yourself as you would to other people" and continue to give yourself plenty of patience, soothe yourself with rest, and try to take your healing process as an adventure. Also remind yourself that you are loved, loved all the time, and you've got people who are not going to quit on you. <br /><br />You're lucky you have the social support system that you have! That's hard to build and maintain. You're already on the up! Just people standing by you from far and near make a difference. So if anyone comes to you and feels helpless because they can't "fix" you, you tell them from Val: "You're already helping me heal by supporting me as a friend just being there" because that energy people give is a prayer blossoming in itself.<br /><br />I feel for you and wish I could be *there* at your side, but I'm going through my own struggle. However knowing you're in pain immediately puts me in a state of emotional pain. Even though we've never met in person, you and Urban mean a lot to me. Please give yourselves hugs and know I am sending you supportive and healing energy all the time.<br /><br />Blessings, peace, and love always.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7743965357861234981.post-758536276605430442013-06-30T17:18:26.873-05:002013-06-30T17:18:26.873-05:00Be careful, and be good to yourself. I had a simil...Be careful, and be good to yourself. I had a similar thing happen after a car accident and a concussion, and occasionally I still have weirdness related to that many years later.Rev. Dr. Tamara L. Siudahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17062740037568839159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7743965357861234981.post-30670039639652942512013-06-27T16:02:26.444-05:002013-06-27T16:02:26.444-05:00Who we are is continually in flux - you are ever e...Who we are is continually in flux - you are ever emerging - and rebirths are painful. A hard bonk on the head what my friend Osunrete would have said it the ancestors telling you to pay attention... or maybe the universes way to insist for you to slow down. Give yourself permission to be gentle with yourself. The insights that will come from this will inform the whole of intellectual you. I know how scary the brain storms and confusion are (I was getting icepick headaches for two years following a serious concussion). Stress doesn't help - but peace does. You are so very loved. Wrap yourself in that and trust that there is a constellation of souls holding your well being in our thoughts, chants, and prayers. Let me know if I can come up and make you dinner, too. A girls gotta be nourished, mind, spirit AND body. /big hug.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361812430825592433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7743965357861234981.post-6654913210231204832013-06-27T15:35:07.276-05:002013-06-27T15:35:07.276-05:00Sending love and positive energy to you both. You...Sending love and positive energy to you both. You will overcome!Blondiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16704005079017656374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7743965357861234981.post-70431308175831849032013-06-27T15:29:53.794-05:002013-06-27T15:29:53.794-05:00It takes courage to share this.
We will deal with...It takes courage to share this.<br /><br />We will deal with it.Urbanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019262251107123583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7743965357861234981.post-83012243812785062232013-06-27T14:56:54.818-05:002013-06-27T14:56:54.818-05:00It does... I will PM you!! <3It does... I will PM you!! <3Sherryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11152113737631367626noreply@blogger.com