25 years after my head injury, still learning ;o)

[StaceM8]

On the 25th February, I went out to celebrate the 25th anniversary of my accident. My ' dead day ' as I call it, cos like many of u, I did die briefly - got better though ;o)

Anyway what I learnt, the following morning I felt incredibly sick & my automatic reaction was to feel down & blame my head injury for the way I was reacting - felt like I was going down again & couldn't get out of bed !!!

I was hung over, course I didn't want to get out of bed. That's normal, but due to the BI I automatically blamed that rather than the fact I was merely hung over (no headache, just felt incredibly sick & just not right).

Basically the moral is & hopefully I will be able t disassociate feeling down with my bipolar. I am on medication which controls that & I kno how horrible depression is, so next time I do feel like I'm going down, (especially when there is reason that I may well be reacting like this for a good reason), I will try my hardest to push through what I'm feeling & get on as people do & I'm sure I would have previously.

Btw I have also changed the name of my 'dead day' to my 'survival day' - anyone got any better ideas or what do u call yours ???

Tc, Stace

[cat3]

I've never really noted that day Stace ; it's always been my family who've reminded me, probably as they lived through that period whilst I lolled about in la-la land. But thinking of it as I sit here now I guess it would be my 'Comeback' day……..

Hope your hangovers are few & far between for a while ; more than two Jack Daniels and I'm senseless ! xx

[StaceM8 in reply to cat3]

Comeback day sounds good t me ;o)

Although it was a hang over of sorts, It was mainly due to coffee intake - I was drinking Bika duplo masseiras - which is basically a double expresso & a shot of brandy. We used to drink them when I lived in Portugal & they're amazing. The coffee wakes U up & makes U really energetic & the brandy makes u drunk.

The difference is you get a lot more brandy (more like a double quadruple (8x Uk measures ;o) but in this country I doubled the coffee but very little brandy. Had about 4 or 5 of those, but that's like 10 expresso coffees - that's a lot of coffee & when I was ill in the morning it was like throwing up tar.

But the main point was I realised I was blaming going down on my head injury, rather than the just normally feeling bad as I should have expected & therefore my reaction was t think I was going through a depression, curling up in bed & just expected t be down for a few days.

Instead I went with my brother down to Hereford where he's just bought a new house & I snapped out of it by the next day (when my coffee tummy had been diluted. That's what made me come to the conclusion I came to ;o)

[StaceM8 in reply to StaceM8]

Thus I wanted to share, cos maybe a lot of the times I went down could have been avoided (possibly) & thus likewise for everyone else (maybe)

[cat3 in reply to StaceM8]

Only decaf for me unfortunately since an AF diagnosis ! Take it easy Stace ! x

[StaceM8 in reply to cat3]

Certainly won't be drinkin that amount of coffee again anyway ;o) You tc too Xxx

[BaronC]

25 years for myself too this coming December. I'll be honest, I never recall precisely what day it was. 8th, 9th, 10th, something like that. No particular name for the day itself, if I had to pick one, I think I'd go for 'Horace'.

[StaceM8 in reply to BaronC]

Horace it is for mine too ;o)

[Diannesmith]

I think "Survival Day" is great, with capital letters!

[StaceM8 in reply to Diannesmith]

Worth considering - BaronC's ' Horace ' was pretty good too but on reflection, going out t celebrate my Horace is gonna confuse people ;o)

[1949liz]

Thinking 💭 Maybe survival day because I did survive on the 6th December 2014 I am now who I am due to the Love of God and the wonderful fellowship of the family on Headway. Love Liz x

[StaceM8 in reply to 1949liz]

Yeah, Dianne above goes wi Survival day. I liked Baron C's ' Horace ', then we've got 2 survival days & a Comeback day - I'll give it some thought ;o)

[BaronC in reply to StaceM8]

Horace wins every time.

Or 'Heathcliff'

[DawnD123]

I have a second birthday each year and plan to do something fun

[StaceM8 in reply to DawnD123]

So what happened to yourself Dawn, I did look but U haven't written anything and when U reply maybe u can copy n paste into your description what u have written, to give others some idea.