Possibly. I don’t know who could watch my daughter though. I will leave her home alone for quick trips to the nearby grocery store (it’s small), but I don’t feel she is yet ready to be home alone longer than 15 minutes or so.

Oh, and H has to fix the problem with the HOA seeing a window AC unit that has been there for 10 years without complaint until a recent sweep of the neighborhood by the HOA. He is not happy about having to build a fence now to block all of it from street view; right now, you can only see about half of it.

Though today it’s raining; he can’t work on it. Since H is a teacher, he has Thanksgiving week off along with the students.

I don’t think H puts much faith into any type of medical professional. When he was 17, he had to have a back operation over Christmas vacation, couldn’t keep pain meds down, and his doctor was unreachable on a ski trip. The doctor also neglected to tell H and his parents that H needed to go to physical therapy starting x days post-op. Then, he’s like, “They mis-diagnosedyou with depression for 10 years and had you on the wrong meds.” Yeah, also true.

Plus, since he has a doctorate in physical chemistry from a Nobel Prize recipient (Rick Smalley), he is super smart. I think he has a hard time trusting a doctor or therapist he doesn’t know and/or that I have not been seeing for a long time. He feels there are a lot of bad doctors out there and just because they have a degree, it doesn’t mean they know everything. So it’s very hard.

Maybe I will talk to my youngest sister’s husband. He teaches band for a middle school, but he also is the music minister of his church. If you tell him something you don’t even want my sister to know, he keeps it to himself. He is good with advice or maybe can help explain some of these MIs to H. They are now requiring teachers to get a lot of MI training on training days due to all the school shootings. It actually made H frantic when he came home. He was like, “Do you hallucinate or hear things that are not there or voices telling you to do stuff? I never knew bipolar could do that, and how can they diagnose anyone with all these illnesses having a lot of the same symptoms?” I was like no, I don’t hallucinate or hear voices in my head telling me to do stuff, which realaxed him a bit. They did do an exercise demonstrating how hard it is to think with racing thoughts, and that apparently did give H some idea, so I need to remind him that is how I almost always think. I only hallucinated after my surgery and think that was from a combo of the meds and the severe pain. But BIL has been a teacher longer than H and is in a different school district, so his MI training probably differed, and he’s had more students with MI since he’s taught much longer. So maybe it’s worth talking to BIL about?

Hypergraphia again...