Annabelle Joy's diary

[Annabelle Joy]

Long day, and likely to be even longer tomorrow. We're planning to leave home at 7 for this funeral at 11, as we will have to drive through Melbourne with peak hour traffic. I won't have an opportunity to post until tomorrow evening.

Thanks everyone for posting. I haven't had any time to think about music. Could someone else explain scales with water, etc. percentages to Jules and where to get them and I'll visit a few other diaries before what has to be an early night.

Left my HydroCoach at the gym this morning, Vee, had to go back for it. Now I've lost the top. I think I put down somewhere in our house, but cannot find it anywhere

AJ

[sundaymorningstaple]

You had a long day today to be on the board tonight. Looks like you had a nice loss yesterday, and yeah, guess my whopper gain last night was a sympathy gain to let you know you're not alone!

Actually, the sewage workers did a slowdown until I got to work today.

Hopefully you have another nice loss in the morning as well.

[Butterfly_girl]

YAY AJ!! Getting into those stored clothes! That's awesome stuff!

Hey AJ,

Your in the 80's !! YEEEEHAAAAAA

Sorry to hear about your winery dinner but i think you did the best you could for the situation you were in - and it looks like it didnt make much of a difference with the weight loss!

Thanks for always posting in my diary, you are such an encouragment!!

Talk soon Sum

[Pudge]

Dig more clothes out AJ you'll be needing them sooner than you think
pudge

[Kelly123]

Hi Annabelle

Hope you have a safe trip and am sure we will all miss you on the forum Good for you fitting into your clothes, what a wonderufl feeling

Take Care Kelly

[Annabelle Joy]

Day 5, Week 13

Up 300 gms this morning, but as the reading was much earlier than my usual weigh-in time, and less at least 1.5 toilet visits, I'm probably going okay.

It's been another long day. We were up very early (for us). It was a beautiful morning, and a beautiful day. There was just a little fog, the sun was just coming up and some beautiful views as we passed the yacht club and travelled around the bay. Very peaceful, particularly when compared with the horrendous peak traffic in Melbourne. We left home just after 7 and arrived back just before 5, with a large portion of the time in between spent in the car.

It was my aunt's funeral. I wept the whole time, much more than usual. It's only just occurred to me that being so emotional may have been an effect of Cohen's. Has anyone else experienced anything similar? Apart from being a sad occasion, it's always great to see relatives I only see are funerals. One I hadn't seen for 20 years.

Thanks for posting, SMS, BFG, Sum, Pudge and Kelly, and for everyone else who stopped by

AJ

[ConnieK..]

Hi AJ,

Glad the day was nice even if the occasion was not.

I chuckled when I read you were less 1.5 visits to the loo ...... do I dare ask what constitutes a .5 visit

I don't seem to be more emotional on Cohens, but I am pretty emotional anyway so .... who knows.

It's a shame how as we get older funerals become the only truly compulsory family gathering.

Hope tomorrow makes up for your day today hon.

Take care

Connie

[*Kate*]

I just want to stop by and say congrats on such a great effort so far...I am sure I will take a lot of inspiration from you!

[thenewvee]

Interesting theory AJ about the emotions affecting your loss. I personally haven't noticed, in fact, I think being on Cohens has balanced my emotions out. I'm also a very emotional person, will cry at the drop of a hat, but I have noticed I've hardly done that at all in the past 4 weeks, now that I think about it!

I hope you found the top to your hydracoach! It's pretty useless without it!!

Take care and hope you have a great rest of your week!!

Vee

[shrinking_moi]

AJ, I was an emotional wreck before cohens due to the PCOS but find I'm not too bad now. I get upset over things like last night's surf rescue show and that Korean guy almost drowning.
Do you think being in the car for so many hours may have hindered your loss?
X
Ez

[FotoHijinx]

Hi AJ

Funerals are such sad occasions and I tend to cry for past people lost as well as the person I am farewelling that day. I don't think Cohen's has made me more emotional - I can cry at the drop of a hat too. I tend to get a build up and then finally the dam burst and I guess I cry for all sorts of reasons but all at once (if that makes sense).

No doubt your loss will even out by tomorrow

Cheers
Irene

[eskimokiss]

Sorry to hear about your Aunt AJ. Funerals are emotional at any time. Even when I think I am going to be ok, I usually end up bawling I guess just caught up in the moment and the sadness of the day. I think that being extra sensitive to this particular event could be related to Cohen's, because I feel that Cohen's is really a journey and a journey of self learning too. Each of us shares similarities but then we all have our own individual journeys that we take as well, with ups and downs along the way and you may have been feeling a little more emotional depending on the stage/cycle of the Cohen's journey where you are up to!!

But what a long and draining day for you! I hope you get some rest and you will be shedding that weight like anything!!!

Thanks for always popping into my diary and saying hi!!

[Annabelle Joy]

Day 6, Week 13

No change. I think I'm back on Plateau Island. Someone had to clean up the mess that Irene created during her various attempts to leave. Hoping to leave tomorrow.

Re all the tears, I found a couple of others had been crying lots as I read through the diaries last night, so perhaps I'm not alone with that. I'm back to normal today. Seems there are at least two of you who have had the opposite experience.

Connie, a .5 toilet visit is one where the bladder is only half full My husband and I decided quite a lot of years ago that it's nice to be able to catch up with family at times other than funerals, so we organise family reunions every few years. I'm organising one for my father's extended family the long weekend at the end of this month. I organised the first one like this the same weekend five years ago; this is the second. ANZAC Day falls on a Friday, making it a long weekend. We're holding it at Campbells Creek (near Ballarat) where the family settled when they first arrived in the 1850s. I have a 4th cousin who tracks the family history, and he has done the most amazing job of producing charts with photos for the various lines, which he pins up all round the hall on the day.

Thanks for stopping by, Kate.

Vee, I looked everywhere for that top. I thought it might have dropped on the floor when I refilled it, but couldn't find it. This morning I closed a door, and there it was behind the door, well away from where I'd refilled it. It must have fallen and rolled some distance. I'm so pleased. At the moment I have piles of 'stuff' (particularly clothes) absolutely everywhere as I haven't had time to clean up anything for days.

Ez, yes, I do think that when I'm busy my systems concentrate on keeping me going on what I'm doing and shut down everything else. I did most of the driving yesterday, plus the long day. I'd love to have a few 'normal' days; enough to keep busy, not enough to be too busy. Today isn't likely to be one of them.

Irene, I cried at seeing the cousins I hadn't seen for so long; I cried as the hymns brought back childhood memories; I cried as I wondered how long before we'd be doing the same thing for my father (who we took down, and who is getting more and more frail); I cried for my favorite aunt whose funeral it was; and for several other things. I just seemed to cry from the time I arrived until I left. When I spoke with my cousin, her daughter (they were particularly close), my cousin was dry eyed and comforting me. I usually weep at the emotional bits in the service, but nothing like this.

Thanks, EK. Yes, I think that's a useful insight.

Have a lovely day, everyone.

AJ

[Pudge]

sorry to hear about your Aunt AJ and yes I am pretty teary eyed over little to nothing. Just something sad on the TV gets me going.

A good friend of ours father passed away the funeral was the same weekend as when daughter and I had to go to the horse show. I was actually glad I wouldn't be going. I knew it was going to be a tear jerker and I would be there bawling my eyeballs out. Hubby went though and I made stuff for it. I was there in spirt.

Just being in the car all day and not being able to drink your water will put you up some it will be back off in a jiffy.
pudge

[jeannie77]

Sorry to hear about your Aunt, AJ

I have found that I am so much more emotional since starting the program. I too cry even if there is something sad on TV etc.

Your doing so well, and thats for your continued support

[drexyl]

Hey AJ,

That bloody Irene, she's a messer!! Hope your stay on Plateau Island is brief. Soon you'll be saying.."The Plane, The Plane" & leaving that place!
Haven't seen Mr. Rourke or Tattoo anywhere huh?

I think I'm more emotional also, if that's at all possible? Sorry for your loss, I hate funerals!

Thanx once again for always visiting my diary, you're a true gem!

Cya from me xo

[Jeannie]

I am sorry AJ to hear of your Aunt passing away.. I hope you are feeling a little better, remember all the good times you had with her, and those moments you will always treasure.. xoxo

[ropemaha]

yep ditto waht every one esle said aj, its a hard time and of course you need to cry....

i remember when a friend of mine died a few yrs back, only 42, and he passed away the same week as my nana and my dog....but i was really upset at his funeral cause he was so young....

do something nice for yourself today aj

pen

[FotoHijinx]

Hi AJ

sorry about the mess - I'm not known for being a domestic goddess

I hope you have a good day today and leave the island soon!!

Irene