Greeneyedlass, I'm not so strapped that I can't swing the purchase of a book...especially since I can now go out at lunchtime again (yay!) and there are two big bookstores within easy lunchtime driving distance of the office. I'll look for that book.

No real word from her yet. She hasn't heard back from the three psychs she called; I told her, if she hasn't heard from any of them in a week, to call three others from the list. First one that calls her back, she'll talk to about an appointment for her sleep-related stuff. As for touching, I can usually touch her in affectionate-non-sex ways, such as stroking her back, upper arms, or hair, holding her hand, and getting a hug from her. If I do this out of the blue, she's likely to ask, "Are you okay?", as if I'm seeking her out because something's wrong. (Well, something is wrong, else why would I be here? But that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with wanting to hug her.) Just now, when I did that, I asked her in response how she was. She said, "I'm tired, I think I need more red meat." I offered to go out and get her a burger, since I can now do that , but she declined.

I may want to look for that book and read it before I push further. That will give her a chance to maybe hear back from a psych, or at least to not feel like I'm "obsessing."

- "A"

"Everything that happens, happens. Everything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Everything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again."