1399) Published: Status Update: w/c 7/5/11 May 10, 2011
Posted by pete1844 in Status Updates.trackback ‘Idal, 14th Jamal 168 BE, The Justice and Speech of Beauty, Wednesday, 11th May 2011 AD . 1399) Status Update for w/c 7th May 2011 . 00:10, 11th May . It doesn’t feel comfortable typing here at the moment. Its over 2 months since I last wrote, and there have been changes. Here, late at night, with RLS making my feet excruciatingly restless, getting to sleep is the last on my agenda. (RLS = Restless Legs Syndrome). The RLS, which I feel mostly in my feet, is due, as a side-effect to the psycho-active drugs presribed for me. A more technical label for this restless is akathisia. Its preventing me for concentrating on this, so I think I’ll leave this for tomorrow, when this evening’s Quetiapine/Seroquel has worn off. . 12:27, 11th May . Set the alarm for 06:30, but I didn’t hear it. The phone rang at 10:20. Before I checked the time, I assumed it was my care coordinator, due to see me at 14:00, but it was a call centre, claiming to be making a routine call about my computer. I asked them if they were Dell. No. Have Dell asked them to make this call? They hung up. Cyber crime? Anyway, I was awake, with 40 minutes to get up and get to Costa Coffee to meet Jan from MIND. A good chat to summarise progress to date, and then home to cook lunch before a session at the Kaleidoscope Centre at 13:00. . 17:14, 11th May . A tolerable day, with some progress. After feeling sorrowful after 7th March, an extra month in hospital as a result, and from that sorrowful event, feeling disinclined to eaither pray or read the Baha’i Writings, just 24 hours of reading and praying again, has changed my mind-set and demeanour markedly. The session at MIND was about “well-being” and looking after one’s mind. Then, after an elated report back to my care coordinator, grocery shopping in Kidlington Sainsbury’s, watching a documentary on iplayer about peace-seeking from 1918 to 1945, and sampling some of the culinary delights of my rucksack, namely humous followed by clementines. . 17:19, 12th May . Boredom is the enemy of hypo-mania, and after the tendency towards that over the last few days, due to having nothing specific to do yesterday evening and during today, plus the medication of the daily 350 mgs of Quetiapine/Seroquel, and getting plenty of sleep, has left me people quite down to earth, even though I read from BRC (Baha’i Readings from Canada) and recited the SOP (Short Obligatory Prayer). Last night’s sleep WAS delayed by infuriating RLS (Restless Legs Syndome) or akathisia, but eventually died off anf allowed me to sleep. All this punctuated by eating and watching the news on RT. . 18:13 . Just had to summon forth my assertiveness skills, to ask details concerning freehold/leasehold, building and contents insurance, and mortgage companies and solicitors, of a potential seller, with my family estate as the potential buyer. I arrived home again, slightly stressed out, but nothing being entertained by the TV couldn’t handle, and cause me to feel calm again, as I prepare food for dinner. . 23:19 . Question Time again, and I like Vince Cable and David Blunkett. No surprises there, then. Durng the evening, with the TV in the background, including a documentary about human biology from cradle to grave, sorted out some organisation related issues such as arranging transport to the Spring School in Burnham in Berkshire later this May. No emotional issues today on account of the Quetiapine last night. Life is comfortably mundane. . 14:00, 13th May . Due to Quetiapine, as usual, couldn’t wake up before lunchtime, so too late for salat el jumu’ah with MECO; a lazy slow getting up during the afternoon for a DM in St Clements. DM = Devotional Meeting.
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