Post Mayo

So I posted this on Facebook on the drive up to the airport within an hour or so of the Mayo consult. I have let it sink in more now and am digesting it more but also in a way trying not to really think much about it until I meet with my psychiatrist on the 31st with Pete, when she should have the results typed up exactly from Mayo.  I am willing to do all they recommended, but I don't personally feel they had time to really understand me or what I'm feeling, but Pete thinks they did.  Since I am more sensitive, I will go with him and try it all.  This psychiatrist at Mayo was the head of all psychiatry and psychology at Mayo, so he must know what he's doing.

From Facebook Tues July 21:

Okay so I promised an update for everyone. 
We are on our way home and will be home by 9:30 pm or so.  
I did not get the kind of answers that in the back of my mind that I had hoped for, but we did get some ideas. 
I am getting a phone call on August 13 to get registered to be on a wait list which is normally 1-3 moths to get into their Pain Rehab Center. I have a info pack on that but haven't looked at it yet.
He wants to work on improving my sleep, pain, and depression so he is recommending to change up pretty much all my medications completely.
He also recommended that I check back with the Mary FreeBed Concussion Rehab Clinic I went to after my Traumatic Brain Injury to see if they do neuropsych OT for my brain to re-program not being overwhelmed with too much sound or lights or things going on. (I'm 90% sure they do not do this.)
That's about it. I'm feeling overwhelmed and bummed, because the meds he recommended have icko side effects but I have to decide if the side effects outweigh the benefits or not.  Ugh.
Thank you for all your prayers and thoughts.  Pete feels it went really well so it is probably just my depression telling me it wasn't great - who knows? I don't think like regular people I have found. I know I am much, much, more sensitive which kinda ruins everything :/

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