It comes out of nowhere. I’m going through the day just fine, and then suddenly I’m sobbing.<\/p>\n
No apparent reason. I don’t even feel depressed. But I’m crying my heart out.<\/p>\n
Sometimes it’s a couple times, or three times. Today, five or six times.<\/p>\n
I don’t know what it’s about.<\/p>\n
OK, I’m alone most of the day and I’m often exhausted and I can’t seem to make my brain do anything.<\/p>\n
But I *prefer* being alone, usually. The rest of it is, well, normal for someone who had brain surgery just a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n
Crying\u00a0is probably a normal response from a brain that’s been hit hard, although they don’t tell you that in the discharge info. But the crying itself makes me feel worse sometimes.<\/p>\n
It’s as though I can hear a crying child in the distance, and don’t know where she is or what to do for her.<\/p>\n
I don’t know this person who is sobbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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