Reply To: Gastritis

I never asked anyone here to be my therapist… plus I trust a doctor who examined me more than people on this website, who have most likely never met me before. My situation is very unique in nature and although that does not mean that I want the world to pity me, by issues, I mean my madrichot called me repeatedly and interrupted my doctor appointment today, and I knew it was my madricha, so I decided that the call wasn’t important. I get one free shabbos a month and I am looking forward tomorrow to having the ability to turn my phone off for around 30 hours, maybe even thirty two or even better, 36 hours! I have never been more excited about turning my phone off on a weekday when it wasn’t shabbos! Things are a lot more complicated than I am making it here. I mean, imagine being told that anything remotely wrong you have done over several weeks (by my doctor today) was only done by me as a result of having such high levels of stress.

For the first few days after taking my medication, omeprazole, (which my great aunt also has chronic gastritis, so we both take the same medication, which further reiterates to me that I got the correct diagnosis…) I felt better. However, eventually things got a bit more stressful and as a result, I have not been able to participate in every single activity on my schedule…. I have done everything that I can do ON MY OWN, and now it is time for my dream of having SOMEONE ELSE volunteer to do the dirty work of standing up to the directors of my program. And yes, although there needs to be adjustments with my therapy, my medications work perfectly fine, been working fine for almost ten years now. Its very difficult to completely adjust when every month since september, I have switched to a new room and the only month I didn’t have a room mate was when I lived in Kiryat Sefer while searching for a place to switch into. Although that month was stressful, it was a lot easier because I had my own room and didn’t have to worry about other people’s extremes in sleep schedules…