Published on 12, July, 2020
For those of you that have lost the plot, tangled yourself in the thread, lost a button, misplaced their armoured shelll....hang out here!
This is the Home for the Mis-Wired, waiting for the ferry to Autopia / sitting in the waiting room of diagnosis .....tickets please! All aboard!
How long do you give it before we get our threads in a twist on this one!?
It's been an odd first week at my new job. Ups and downs. The people (as in 'clients', but I hate referring to them that way) run the whole gamut, from very quiet and easy to extremely challenging. One lad in particular, though, is amazing. The first question he asks everyone new is their date of birth and the year. He then tells you, with barely a pause, what day of the week it fell on. He's always right, too. Astonishing!
Glad there have been positives to the week too. So are you sticking at it next week?
Happier than I was mid-week. I wasn't at all sure after the first couple of days. I found one of the other staff members in particular to be very hard to get on with, but we worked together on Friday and found some common ground. Partly, of course, it's about getting used to new things and people, and getting to know the people I'm dealing with. They're much more challenging than ones I've been used to in recent years. At my last job, they were either very capable or confined to wheelchairs, with very little in between. Here, they're all mobile. Some of the more challenging ones are totally focused on one activity, which they do over and over all day long - like listening to the same song all day. Others are a little more active. We've had several trips out - to trampolining, putting, bowling. Next week, I'm off shadow shifts and working alone on 1-1s. That'll probably be better, actually. And once I've been added to the company's insurance, I can drive the buses, so I'm likely to be out much more.
On the whole, then, I feel buoyant about it all. Another couple of weeks and I'll be more certain. At least I don't have the horrible thing of shift changes and extra hours hanging over me. I know when the day starts and when it finishes. That's a big bonus.
And Ellie will save us with silly, until she runs out, of course life can look so bleak that it isn't worth the huge effort, but then there's you and the others here, we are just ordinary extraordinary people making a small difference. x
Sadly as if we need reminding pew has posted.I can only empathise with him,I don't have the strength or knowledge to help him,this world is so very very wrong,sorry for that downer but just highlite the need for escapism.drew we really do care,we feel pain,we just don't have the facilities to get you what you need!sorry mate. Just keep ranting if you need to .
we aren't here laughing out of not caring but if we constantly focus on every person who needs desperate help it will destroy us,we aren't strong enough.
I can feel that, my foot is wincing! Thanks for being here Lone, I think we are all needed cogs in the machine of making things more positive. There's such an array of experience and success/failure in life here that it helps you to take stock and get some bearings. Ignore me I'm ramblimg, sleep well and don't patrol for too long. ()
Ouch just stepped on a flipping leggo brick sneaking about in the dark,
Lol.shhh,whisper whisper,,,,hey let's knock on Ellie's door and run back to our beds he he,
Sneak sneak. x
I get that Lone I think. All life is in your lounge tonight then, it does sound like your wife wears herself out quite well, hope she is ok. We are a funny mismatched bunch but I feel much better when I manage to join in the nonsense. I think better slowly even though I'm known as a quick thinler and learner. Picking yourself apart is quite difficult. More silly please. x ()
nite nite,curl up tight to keep warm.
sleep well all.
hugs x
Good night everyone....keep the noise down and no sneaking about x
My bed is in our living room?wifey asleep crashed out on the sofa shhh.been a long day for her,
I've gone to hide in the spare room...shhh
I would rather do the rounds with you holding your hand! But that would be silly as I'm sure the spiders won't hurt me?eek.
Stop apologising Ellie I am trying to be funny,
Your the last one on here to offend me,
My room?already in it!been here most of the day.(cryptic)?
It's my way of saying I care spotty. We don't get to chat much me and you,I deliberately try to create a more relaxed attitude,we don't have a lounge section for silly banter.God knows we go through the wringer.
I look at really oldposts and most are serious and due respect is paid in responding,Things get very full on here,we need and deserve a break,yes us so called types with no empathy and no understanding of social interaction,utter nonesense.
Even I have been known to smile.
big hug to you spotty()x
I was thinking glitter!
You're good Spotty and I always miss you when you're not about....
sorry lone...nerve touched, lid back on said box...I better make jerky movements to my room.
Make sure the cat is shiney, maybe some nail polish?
Don't mean to offend .. You lock up, I'll do the dishes and polish the cat!
I'm not sure I've ever come across as silly here, but in the right place I have a fine appreciation of silly and I promise I do have a sense of humour. I can check the corridors and lock the doors too, but I quite like the idea of Lone on the look out. ()()
What bloke? I am me not just some bloke,You don't need looking after.The amazing ladies on here are very capable of coping I feel like I've just been neutered!
better leg it while I am in one peace.
Sorry Miss,
only joking Ellie.You are all amazing.
huggies.