Date: Saturdayay, June 21, 2008
Wake Up: 10:00am
Pill: 10:15am
Medication: Vyvanse, 30mg
Current Song in my head: I truly don’t have one
Jump to my Doctor’s Appointment
My wife is almost asleep on the couch watching a rerun of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. I’m wandering the internet, checking Facebook, updating blog titles, generally relaxing. It was a busy day. At 5:30 the baby woke up… I played with him for an hour until my wife was ready to get up and feed him, then I went back to bed. I woke up later than I normally do, even on the weekends. Had a bowl of cereal for breakfast, then went and got gas for the lawn mower, so I could accomplish what needed to be done.
Our neighbors are trying to sell their house so we’re trying to look like good neighbors. Not that we’re bad neighbors, but we’re really trying to improve our yard after years of neglect by the previous owners. Yesterday I pulled weeds in the flower bed in front of our downstairs windows, and in the stepping stones from the front door to the gate to the backyard. By the time I was done I had the yard waste container two-thirds full, and I hadn’t mowed the lawn in over a week. (That’s what Madeline Hunter called a birdwalk).
So after I got gas I mowed the backyard. I get bored just going back and forth, so today I mowed in a big circle. I started in the middle and worked my way out. Then I went side to side in front of the playset, and then did another big circle on the other side. It’s interesting. I had a doctor’s appointment at 2:45 (more on that soon, I promise). I came home and took care of the baby for a little while, and watched the girls ride their bikes till it was time to mow the front yard. This time I did arrows pointing toward my neighbor’s house. They have an open house tomorrow, and while we really like our neighbors, they already have another house so they need to sell this one. Not as noticeable, but still pretty cool. We still had some errands to run, so we did that, and then had dinner at 7:20. After that we went and toured the neighbor’s house. We’ve lived here since September of ‘05, but we’d never been inside. Same floor plan but it looks entirely different. It was tough to get the girls to bed, as is to be expected when they’re up so late. I did okay, I saw myself starting to lose it, and then backed myself up and helped our middle child get into bed peacefully.
Ok, now the doctor’s appointment. It was quick. I’ve lost five pounds. I expected that since I’m never hungry anymore. I showed the doctor my blog, he said it was a first. For me it’s a form of accountability. Even though I know very few, if any, people read the blog, if I don’t have a post there I know anyone who tries to look at is going to say, “Oh, he’s just an ADD guy, and can’t stay focused long enough to post his blogs.” Based on what I was able to tell the doc, he has changed my prescription from 30 milligrams to 50 milligrams. The 60 I took on Monday and Tuesday had me awake far too long. Hopefully 50 will keep me focused just not awake alllll the time. He also told me I need to start exercising. I need to anyway, but now I have orders. He asked if I’ve found any other resources and I told him that I’d joined the Vyvanse support group on their website. It seems to have trouble so I haven’t followed up. Yesterday I became a member of the ADDitude website, and I’ve found a few blogs about adults with ADHD. I don’t have anything against parents of ADHD kids or even teenagers blogging about their ADHD, but I need grown ups, professionals dealing with ADHD to help me see things I can do to improve myself.
I forgot to tell him about my big personal breakthrough that I hope will move me farther down the road. I’ve figured out how to sync OneNote with my iPaq, so now I can create a to do list on my iPaq and sync it when I get to work, so I can have a OneNote notebook to remind me of the things I thought about, but have typically forgotten.
That’s all for now! Happy Summer!