I safely made it back from my trip to see family yesterday. It's good to be back on this forum and "see" you all! I was able to skim over some of the posts I missed and see multiple people have been struggling mentally and/or physically. Thinking of all of you and sorry you are struggling! I'm sorry I can't respond to posts I've missed.

The trip went well-my mood remained stable the entire time! I'm noticing that the longer I live away from family, the more of an outsider I feel around them. My city life is just so different than their small town life. I was able to get in some quality time with my godsons though and that is always good for the soul. They are getting so big! Traveling triggered my POTs symptoms though. I should have scheduled an IV for today, but chose to get together with a friend instead. My body crashed hard because of this.

Tomorrow is back to school. Four of five days are a weird schedule this week so we are really hitting the ground running. I also have a retina exam and see my pdoc this week. If I am really struggling at work tomorrow, I might take Tuesday off so I can rest up.