First Army Thread of 2015

[JackieClaire]

JC, why only half the people getting a pay rise? What's the criteria?

Where did I say that? I have a memory like a sieve.

[roxane]

norning.

this full moon is definitely a factor in my moods.

Morning Army!
............................. But the gently coercive signup can perhaps be handled better?

thats the one.

[DreamThinkDo]

My sieve's got bigger holes than yours - had to go back - it's Molly's lot drawing straws for more money. osteroops:

[DreamThinkDo]

Norning Roxy! Had a look at the moon last night and actually thought about it and you. But if you know why you're feeling the way you do, it's a lot easier to handle things, not so?

[roxane]

yes dream, it helps. i thought it was the holidays until i did the same and saw the moon. probably a bit of both?

[DreamThinkDo]

I think a lot of people will be glad to get back to normality tomorrow.

[JackieClaire]

Norning Roxy! Had a look at the moon last night and actually thought about it and you. But if you know why you're feeling the way you do, it's a lot easier to handle things, not so?

You are not going to believe this............but I was looking out the kit -hen window and thought how lovely the moon looked.then immediately thought of Roxxy.

[roxane]

you calling me barking???

[roxane]

Norning Roxy! Had a look at the moon last night and actually thought about it and you. But if you know why you're feeling the way you do, it's a lot easier to handle things, not so?

You are not going to believe this............but I was looking out the kit -hen window and thought how lovely the moon looked.then immediately thought of Roxxy.

aww, thanks......................puts molly on the ignore list.

[JackieClaire]

why? boring/hard? Direct Learning as in -- online? tell me more and save me some grief..... maybe history --- or literature --- or -- nothin

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It was on-line and could have been written in Greek..............it was just too hard............and my tutor was hopeless.

I did do 2 quick start open University ones............much easier to get me going....only 12 weeks each and the tutors were lovely..........still on the hard side if you've not been in education for a while but like I said the tutors were great.

[JackieClaire]

aww, thanks......................puts molly on the ignore list.

:hahaha::hahaha::hahaha:

[DreamThinkDo]

[JackieClaire]

Brilliant :applouse:

[JackieClaire]

Open University costs a FORTUNE over here -- more expensive than going to university proper --- you are so lucky having it over there for nothin --- I'd have done courses all my life if we had that..... I often look wistfully at the pamphlets....

Its not free unless you're on certain benefits.

Think sit was about £120/150 for the 12 week courses............didn't dare look at the longer ones.

[shambles70]

I DID know what HR meant...really I did. No, I did. I DID!

I got into the system following an admission to A&E. I'd drunk 8 bottles of wine the day/night before. I saw a community drug and alcohol worker in there before I was discharged and she said she was going to refer me and would call me the next day. I shouldn't have been discharged in my opinion, I was in a right state. At one point, I decided I wanted a fag so I pulled the cannula out of my arm and went walking down the ward with blood spurting everywhere.

Next day, the D&A team called. I realise now that this was the post team, not the acute team. They asked me to come to the clinic for an assessment. I told them that I was in no fit state to make it to the clinic (20 miles away). At that point I couldn't leave the house...I was getting taxis to bring round wine. They said that they didn't do home visits. At that point I have never felt so alone and helpless. The next morning, with horrendous DTs, I got my neighbour to take me to the GP (I live on my own) and she saw what a state I was in. She referred me to the acute team, insisting on a home visit, and told me to go and have a drink straight away. She wasn't prepared to write me up for Librium until I had been seen by the acute team.

They came to assess me a couple of days later. At that point, I'd hardly eaten for 2 weeks, and was starting to get blood in my early morning vomit. They did a very good assessment (2 hours) and said that I needed to stabilise before they could do an inpatient detox (which is what they were recommending). I had been drinking so chaotically that my blood alcohol levels needed to level out rather than the huge peaks and troughs it had been getting. So, from there on, I began the regime of stabilising. Saw my keyworker the following week, and began reducing, very slowly. I was determined to do it without going inpatient.