Well, some things have happened.
Storey hasn’t really been going to school. Their anxiety has been getting bad and self harm continued at a steady but mostly superficial pace until early March. Storey hadn’t gone to school and I was at work doing a 13 hour day. Came home to blood walked through the house. Storey had cut their leg up at some point earlier in the day and the bleeding didn’t stop for a long time.
Queue everything falling apart. It was three days before I saw how bad it was. I said we really should have had a couple of these places sutured. I said they’ll need to surrender what they used (knives and scissors and things I had taken from easy access months before) and they couldn’t be left alone now.
We went over first aide for cuts, because really I can’t stop them from cutting if they’re going to do it, they’ll find something to use even if I take all the sharp things away.
We had to get Child and Adolescent Mental Health involved which is a state run organisation which now makes me worry DoCS are going to get involved.
(Found out today, they are happy with the fact I rang and left a message and I’m off the radar now)
Storey started antidepressants.. they didn’t take it seriously but when we conferred with GP again we explained that this has to be a long term attempt. So I think Storey is being more consistent now.
Other stuff happened, I was asked to be a research assistant for a longitudinal health study collecting data. They want us to do blood collection but I’m not trained in that so are sending me to a course.
Ian got promoted, sort of. He gets to live closer than 2 hours away now so that will be nice.
My health is declining, still. Not much to be done about it so I’m told. I believe I have osteoarthritis in my neck which is pretty painful most days now. More scans due soon so I will ask about pain relief when I get those results. Hopefully not just NSAIDS because I don’t want to jeopardise my kidney function.
I’m so fucking pissed off at the kids father after Storeys self harming escalated that I just don’t have the words for it right now.
None of us have had Covid yet, so thats a bonus too.
SP
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