Hey folks..not to bum out this thread, but I thought I'd share something important with you that happened last night. I have a very old friend in Texas with severe MS who I'm going down this weekend to see for the first time in over 25 yrs. We recently found each other again on Facebook. She's been very excited about me coming down and I have too. Last night I got a call from her bf that she'd had a really bad chest seizure episode and had stopped breathing. He gave her CPR and managed to get her back. She's now in ICU and barely stable.
When I got the call my first instinct was to jump in the truck and just go right then. I was just ballistic with stress. I made a couple more calls, talked it over with my gf Julia, who'll be going with me this weekend and finally decided there was nothing I could really do, but wait and see what happened. Needless to say it was a very long stressful night. I did finally get to talk to her this morning and she's better now and we are still planning to go down..even if we visit with her in the hospital.
The relevance to all of this is in my new GGTS/AFSv2. I'm one of those folks who smoked heavily as a means of self-medicating my anxiety/depression/etc. Smoking has been my sobriety for over 20 yrs as well. I had a really tough time the first month or two as I weaned off analogs and started to learn to cope without them. This event last night is the first real stress situation I've had to deal with since I've started vaping and quit analogs. I've already had several times when I got very frustrated with a bad cartomizer or my cart stuffing leaking and just having to "fiddle" with stuff in the middle of a stress/anxiety situation. But last night was a big one!
I don't think I would of made it through last night without the AFSv2. I had to stop and fill the tank at one point last night...I went through 2 tanks in about 6hrs...but I just kept vaping and dealing with the situation. I was able to think things through..cause I didn't have to "fiddle" with some cart or atty. I've definitely just gained a whole new respect for the AFSv2...cause if it can get me through last night...I'm good for anything!
Just thought I'd share this..and please pray, send energy or whatever you do to my friend in Texas...she's in great need right now. Thx for listening..!