Sunday, January 25, 2009

5th entry - January 25th

I just sent my Mom to the movies as I could tell it was getting tough today. I have a list of items that need to be done today that include:

1)Read Mail= Done
2)Blog--doing now
3)Return calls
4)PT---forgot yesterday
5)Pay bills
6)Organize desk

Yesterday, I mentioned that one of the items on my list was writing a letter to my brother's friend, a struggling cancer patient and that I thought it would be as much as a letter to myself as it was to him. That was correct.

I got up a little overwhelmed and down over my current situation. The advice I gave Glenn's friend is to think back and transport yourself to a great place, time and situation. So for a change I took my own advice: Logging Lake in Glacier National Park in Montana, 1980, with Kay (from University of Michigan) and Travis (from University of Tennessee) on a backpacking trip and met unequipped visitors on the trail who brought 2 grizzly bears.

Wherever you all are, thanks for a great time.

Entry though:

Yesterday after doing my early list I decided it was time to go to the movies in Arlington. I also
needed to get my drugs at Walgreens. We walked to Porter Square and took the bus to Walgreens to get my Toprol. After we got the Toprol, we walked to the Capitol theatre and went to see Rachel Getting Married (http://www.sonyclassics.com/rachelgettingmarried/). It's an Oscar nominated movie and perfect for those of you that like to see exposes on drug rehab patients and their dysfunctional familes. It was acutally pretty good.

We took the bus back afterwards, went to the grocery store and went home. Heard back from Phyllis from Dave and Phyllis of Colorado yesterday. On telephone spoke to my brothers, Scott and Glenn, my Aunt Marilyn, Todd Ellsworth and my cousin Jon.

Next week starts outpatient week---------


Brian

2 comments:

  1. Great advice for Bob! You made me cry damn it! Hope Mom saw a good movie. We saw Defiance last night for my birthday night out. The three brothers reminded me of you, Scott and Glenn! Talk to you soon!
    Mar

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  2. HI Brian:
    Sound like you are doing the right thingss. We went to see Revolutionary Road. Another disfunctional family. Sounds like a lot of disfunctional families in the world. Mark's friends "the physciatrists love these movies".
    Your advice to the cancer patient is correct, I use it in hypnosis for people in pain "to go to a happy time and stay there for awhile."
    I also have a motto that we live by" Nobody lives in my head rent free". therefore no one can aggrivate me unless they pay for it.
    Keep up the good work
    Love
    Uncle Mel and Aunt Faye

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