ADHD

I have an evaluation on Monday.  I'm not that kind of doctor,  but I feel like the normal number of times per month to set your smoke alarm off at 3 AM because you forgot something on the stove is probably  ZERO. 

Important Note To Self

When you can't walk up all ten stairs without pausing, and/or when you spend two days in bed because you can't breathe,  it is time for MEDICAL ATTENTION and LOTS OF DRUGS,  dumbass (and somewhat short of breath) self. (My baseline is I lift weights and do vigorous exercise 3-5 days a week.)

Cue my favorite neurologist saying "my patients often accept as routine a level of pain and disability that other people would find completely unacceptable."

Five minute blogging: ADHD

 My oldest kid has just been diagnosed with Inattentive Type ADHD,  which is good to know and explains a lot. We can help him more effectively now that we know this thing! However, in reading about it, I've realized that I too have this thing.

Now I'm wondering how much of who I am is normal human behavior and how much is a bundle of problems glued together with anxiety and a rigid organizational system.  Like is all of me one big problem that I need to solve? Probably no but then which parts ARE the problems.  

????

 The other night at the Hobby Group Party, a very nice woman said (in all sincerity) that she couldn't take her daily (one teaspoon of) apple cider vinegar while pregnant. 

I was polite and did not ask her about her salad dressing and pickle consumption while pregnant.  But truly, the mind boggles.

Yet More Bad Decisions

My sick relative now wants to get more quack treatment, in a foreign country, for 5 months, with their young child along. Their spouse is still in the military. What could go wrong?

(Me:"They could have to go to the hospital and have the kid taken away by social services."

Dr. S: "They could die and the child could find their body.")

Work continues to be a mess, though I can't care much.  My oldest kid continues to fail HS classes, though we're working on it. My health also continues to be a mess.

What. A. Fall.

More Decisions

 My SIL is having some kind of lung trouble that indicates dire complications and probably serious metastases.  This has changed nothing.  

My mother is now insisting she will go visit my siblings in A Certain Country What's Doing All The War Crimes Right Now. There's some trouble getting flights and I have asked if she would please not go visit a shooting war. This has also changed nothing. 

Decisions

My relative with the bad diagnosis is going to Ye Olde Quack Clinic in three days. They will be charged $4600 per week to be treated with combinations that, if they worked, I assure you every clinic in the world would be using.  I expect them to be gone in a year tops, leaving behind a young child and a spouse. 

They are being gulled willingly, but there's a special place in hell for the people running this clinic. Shame on those despicable humans for exploiting the desperate with false hope.