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I_UndergroundPanther

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Mon Feb 10, 2020, 10:56 PM Feb 2020

Something scary happened [View all]

These kind of events have been going on for the past two years,just being oblivious about what I am doing in a minor way compared to what happened yesterday.

Yesterday I ran my sink over. Water was pouring off the kitchen island to the floor. It was near electrical plugs. I was lucky my cat Othello alerted me on it. It so easily could have caused real damage and could have killed me and Othello.

What it's also scary is the sink flood was no more than 15 feet away from me where I was sitting I was unaware it was flooding.

Othello my sweet good boycat alerted me about it. It didn't register right away what was happening . Got up when I realized what I was seeing it took about a minute for me to realize what was happening.

Very slow reaction.

One of the plugs was flashing. I pulled them out of the wall immediately. I had to use 8 big towels to sop up all the water. Luckily there was no damage. That was scary.. other things similar to this situation happens sometimes . Like not realizing my blood sugar is low until it gets 40 or lower,that scares me too.

Am I just am unaware of stuff I am doing? Do I blot out things and now it's becoming a problem?

I have scarred temporal lobes. From trauma. Could that be messing with my executive functioning? I have a dissociative disorder and PTSD both . Has it gone from bad to worse? I dunno ,either way I am shook up about it.


I am so thankful and proud of my kitty Othello.

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