ECT helped. I’m not 100% but definitely better. Bad thing is I bit my lip during treatment. I was fine before I went in but after my lip was all swollen and now I have a horrible scab. I’ve been telling people I tripped and fell into the wall. Only my immediate family knows about the treatments, I’m afraid I’d suffer heavy judgement if I told anyone else. ECT is misunderstood and lots of people would be surprised to know that I do it regularly. I actually decided to increase my schedule during the winter to every three weeks. That means I can’t take any days off work besides my ECT days or I will run out of PTO. Oh well. Hopefully I won’t get sick.

Today is CR’s birthday! Thirteen years old. We took him to the arcade with my MIL and her friend/housemate yesterday. He won 170,000 tickets! We go to this arcade bc you can trade your tickets for gift cards instead of just cheap junk. You can get cheap junk too but he likes the gift cards. He’s all hooked up for gift cards, everyone got him apple gift cards and he has about $150 now.

I’m a bit sad that he’s now thirteen but I’m handling it better than I thought I would. We have to get him an ice cream cake today and we’re taking him out with my mom for lunch. I bought him a new phone a week ago so I warned him he wouldn’t be getting any presents from us. He is fine with it. Now it’s almost time to start getting Christmas presents. God I hate wrapping presents!

Hugs to all who are struggling!