Explanation for my absence...

[kawman]

wack his goolies in a duck press mate.. she is not worth it..

 

[MJB]

Yobskin, I wish you all the very best my friend and although I don't know your exact situation, my significant other has recently landed me a death blow that I am struggling to comprehend so I sort of understand your woes. Like you , my kids are whats important to me and always will be. Stay focussed on them and everything will turn out ok.

Best of luck mate,
Matt

 

[Guest]

Hang in there yobskin, I know its tough with a dodgy back and little support. I'm not sure how long its been since your disc fully gave out. But I've got a torn Disc and Degenerative Disc Disease in my L5/S1. It took three years to settle down and for my muscles to adjust to the added load. But I feel much better for now. Though I don't know what the future holds? For now I just live for my two boys. They have been my salvation. I hope your situation with the mrs improves. The added anxiety and stress from that wont help your back.
Just remember, Tomorrow is a new day and time heals all wounds. Though me might have a few scars to show for the experience.
Between my boys, fishing, camping, and my new found obsession (prospecting). These four things, I believe. Have enabled me to overcome the sh#tty situation I was in mentally. After my back went. I lost everything, family, house and everything I'd worked so hard to acquire. Though I lost more possession three years earlier after a house fire took everything. My music collection and a lifetime of photos were the hardest to cope with.
Stay positive and remember the love of your children. They need you and don't forget. Children need at least one emotionally available parent and by the sounds of it. That's their DAD.

Good luck mate and all the best for the future

 

[user 1769]

All the best yobskin,

My experience wasn't anywhere as bad as yours. Still, it leaves a hole in you and you carry the scars with you. I look back (6 years ago) and I wonder that I couldn't see that 6 years down the track I'd be happier than I ever was with her.

I find it hard to hate when I wonder if I should be thanking her instead.

M

 

[Chewy]

Hang in there yobskin, I know its tough with a dodgy back and little support. I'm not sure how long its been since your disc fully gave out. But I've got a torn Disc and Degenerative Disc Disease in my L5/S1. It took three years to settle down and for my muscles to adjust to the added load. But I feel much better for now. Though I don't know what the future holds? For now I just live for my two boys. They have been my salvation. I hope your situation with the mrs improves. The added anxiety and stress from that wont help your back.
Just remember, Tomorrow is a new day and time heals all wounds. Though me might have a few scars to show for the experience.
Between my boys, fishing, camping, and my new found obsession (prospecting). These four things, I believe. Have enabled me to overcome the sh#tty situation I was in mentally. After my back went. I lost everything, family, house and everything I'd worked so hard to acquire. Though I lost more possession three years earlier after a house fire took everything. My music collection and a lifetime of photos were the hardest to cope with.
Stay positive and remember the love of your children. They need you and don't forget. Children need at least one emotionally available parent and by the sounds of it. That's their DAD.

Good luck mate and all the best for the future

L5s1 seems to be the 1 that goes, mine tore in 2009, 4 months afer that my ex pulled the pin. I was shattered at the time, had no support close by, it was tough. In the end my ex did everything she could to try and hurt me, I don't really know why to this day and don't care. We get along ok these days and share custody week about with our daughter. I went from injuring my back and shouler and losing my job and work cover rejecting my claim, having the ex leave and take the kid, after about 3 months of tormenting each other in the same house after it had ended, I was absolutely alone. I struggled to make house payments while we waited for the house to sell, and the ex wouldn't pay anything as she wasn't living there anymore. I had my daughter every 2nd week, so I literally only ate every 2nd week for about 6 months. Depression was inevitable. Within a year, I was coping a little better and as fate would have it I bumped into an old flame, actually my first serious girlfriend from 23 years earlier. The house sold, I married the hell out of that old flame, live in a nice house, have a beautiful and completley insane family together, and 5 years on couldn't be happier. It can happen to you to Yobskin.

 

[Blindbat]

Sounds like a lot of people here have had the same ups and downs. I wont bore you with mine, but yeh been there done that. Can remember being so poor that I looked at my dog for my next meal. With regards to the back problems yep it is agony. During the gold rush there were some very sore backs and one remedy was opium, either by smoking or by making a tea. I'm not saying go do that. But I did live south of Yobskin for a while and studied plant medicines. A few that come to mind are bracken fern tip for worming. A native raspberry that fixes any type of food poisoning/stomach upsets and fevers. And I also grew organic celery which has an anti inflammatory function. I would let the celery go to seed and if my back started playing up, I would eat the seed pods. They taste like celery/pepper. Just a dozen or so plucked straight from the bush and within 5 minutes the inflammation around my spine would cease and I would feel fine again.

 

[Panner]

look after yourself, every time something negative happens that makes you feel sad or mad, ask yourself this question.... What are 3 things that benefited me from that? . At first it seems impossible but after a while you will be naming more and more and it is amazing how it can change your mood in an instant. let us know sometime if it works at all. Wishing you health and happiness soon.

 

[Twapster]

Life throws some pretty nasty stuff at us but then also gifts us with plenty more of the good stuff. One door closes, another one opens. Hope you pull up ok mate you seem like you have handled well so far, here's to better things ahead.

Good to see you back!

 

[Digger Danny]

Happy fathers day yob, I hope you and your kids have a good one.

 

[Blindbat]

When your down Get up go forward and don't take another step back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f745G1euS_U :lol:

 

[Guest]

Happy Fathers Day yobskin.
Today is your day bruv...
Hope you and your kids have a great one

 

[yobskin]

Thank you everyone the support you all have shown is priceless.
Today was a great day down the river kids were absolutely stoked. There mum even joined us. We found a little colour but the river sand fight was the high light we had and orange break...
Filled in our hole and pigged out on scooby snacks and twisties.
I have big shoulders and thick skin im not a giving up.
Try and try again...