Thanks everyone for your ongoing support and friendship and prayers ... I cannot tell you how much it means to me to have people like you, people whom have never met me in person, thinking of my family and sending prayers. Really.
So this is the basic story ...
Starting last Thursday night/Friday morning, Matt started having periods of lability (prior to this, I had never seen him cry ... he never cried when either of his parents died!) interspersed with strong feelings of paranoia and anxiety ... along with some delusions (ie strangers sending him secret signals; conspiracy theories, etc). He went to New Hampshire on Friday night into Saturday to take the docks out (I stayed home with 2 sick kids). And I decided to bring him to the ER on Sunday morning.
After going to the ER at Hartford Hospital, they observed him for 22 hours then released him with a name of someone to call for an outpatient appointment. So I picked him up yesterday (Monday) morning from the hospital and we visited the kids at my parents then went to lunch ... where he had a complete delusional episode, thinking that someone had planted a listening device in my car and he was totally paranoid and said we needed to call the govenor because she could help us and she would believe him. Ummm, yeah.
So we go to the outpatient appointment, and after 45 minutes with him, the clinician talks to me, and then determines that he needs to be admitted ... via ambulance. So off we went to the ER at St. Francis (with a police escort!) where they ran all sorts of blood work and urine tests and did a CTScan and MRI (all negative thankfully).
So, basically extreme stress brought about a psychotic episode. While in the hospital, he will undergo extensive counselling and therapy to teach him better stress management skills and also get some medication which should also help.
I'm pretty freaked out ... and stressed ... and all that crap ... but meditating and praying a lot ... and taking it one day at a time ...
To end on a positive note ... I saw my doctor yesterday and my hormone profile is improving dramatically ... my levels were all within normal limits (progesterone, estrogen, testosterone, free T3, free T4, and vitamin D) - with medication. So she said to continue what I am doing (she was happy about the increased yoga and meditation and said that if the resistance and interval training makes me tired, it means that my adrenals are not handling the stress from those workouts) and she'll see me in mid-January. So at least that is good ...
Again, thanks for all the support ... God bless each and every one of you ...