[Magdalen] Prayer request --Marion, Nurse Jay, Dr David

[Sibyl Smirl]

Prayers continue,

but I just thought of something that might be critically relevant, or 
might just worry you more, but thought that I should pass it on, since I 
remember it.  When I was in my thirties, just after my divorce and my 
parents' death, I was "suicidal thoughts" depressed (have always been a 
bit of a Depressive, secondary to (what I didn't know then was) my 
Asperger's)  I hadn't been wanting to try the "modern" anti-depressants, 
having heard the bad things as well as the good things, but at that 
point I was desperate, so I tried one called Tofranil.  I got a 
heart-irregularity side effect from it, and I was in bad enough shape 
already that lying in bed at night and listening to my heart do crazy 
rhythms was really scary, so I stopped it on my own recognizance almost 
immediately.  (It may have _saved_ my life, actually, because it did cut 
off the lowest points, even before I noticed the irregularity.)  But the 
irregular heartbeat went away as soon as I quit it.  Skipping forward to 
maybe ten years ago, the Psychiatrist at the Mental Health Center 
suggested that I might want to try a chemically-closely-related 
antidepressant, and when I told him about my experience with the 
Tofranil, he fully agreed with me that I shouldn't touch the newer 
version.  He pointed out that the side-effect that I survived in my 
thirties might kill me with the first pill in my sixties.


On 10/8/16 9:38 AM, Marion Thompson wrote:
> An update on this prayer request:  Yes, stress and more recently coupled
> with stomach problems.  So now, having given up the job, he is
> unemployed again, which rachets up the poverty anxieties even more. He's
> depressed.  I'm depressed.  What's new?
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
>
> On 9/16/2016 1:42 PM, Marion Thompson wrote:
>> This is for my son, Chris, for an upturn in his affairs.  He phoned
>> this morning. "What's up?" I asked, because there is always something
>> up.  "Do we have a history of heart problems in the family?"  "No."
>> So, for the last long time he has had irregular heart rhythmn.
>> "Stress!" I immediately said.  He saw a doctor yesterday and ya-da
>> ya-da.  Not clear that he thought to suggest stress, but that's where
>> my money is.  That medical exploration isn't over.   His crazy and
>> difficult ex, his irresponsible nominal student daughter who's living
>> with him and who is a financial drain as well as a worry, his working
>> virtually for minimum wage although they keep promising upgrades and
>> the possibility of F.T.E., all round and round in an endless cycle.
>>
>> On the brighter side, he has just made contact with a former colleague
>> in the high-end car business and that may well come to something.  He
>> has just done two TV auditions and has a call-back for one.
>>
>> Really, he is so over-due for a positive and permanent turn-around!
>> Mothers never stop worrying.
>>
>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>
>
>
>


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