Posted by IsoM on October 30, 2002, at 19:01:27
In reply to Re: Thanks for listening . . . ., posted by Greg A. on October 25, 2002, at 23:52:35
Greg, if the ECT isn't helping that much yet, has your doctor any idea why? It's so very unusual for ECT not to help. The drawback about ECT is that its effects don't always last & something like meds needs to be considered too.
I think the way you feel towards your daughters is so wonderful. I love my sons dearly & they're all young men now. I'd fight like a mother grizzly to anyone who meant harm to them. I never had wanted to be a mother as I'm not a motherly type & I wouldn't babysit like most kids did in their teens. But I never knew how good my sons would make me feel & how much a parent is needed.
I didn't have a good relationship with my father. It was more a blow to the side of the head when we misbehaved (in his eyes). But I look at others & their closeness with their fathers & feel wistful. You give your girls something no other person on earth could - a sound basis for a closeness with another man when they get old enough to marry. Sadly, women who've had crappy fathers often make poor choices in husbands. We try hard not to but we have no good role models to judge what a good guy is really like.
I find that when we're truly needed by someone that it gives more reason for us to continue & not give up, more than anything else. Let us know how the further ECT goes & what your doctor says about your responses.
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