Sue, you are awesome.
goddamit, I have a cold. I still need a flu shot but I'm not feeling well enough to get one.
Here is your cup of coffee. Brewed from the finest Colombian lighter fluid.
Xander ,'Chosen'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
le nubian - Jan 16, 2013 9:31:43 am PST #7929 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
sumi - Jan 16, 2013 9:40:25 am PST #7930 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Well, I do have ADHD. (Diagnosed this morning.) So, um whoo?
But I cannot take the meds because I already have high blood pressure and other indicators of heart danger.
Anyone know a good source for non-medical ADHD coping mechanisms?
sumi - Jan 16, 2013 9:44:26 am PST #7931 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
ION: a horde of St. Bernards wreaking gentle chaos in the woods. . . and most adorable helmet cam video ever. Love how she's humming to herself and her pony's fuzzy ears.
le nubian - Jan 16, 2013 9:48:46 am PST #7932 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
sumi,
after all this time did you have suspicions?
are you feeling better after diagnosis or just numb?
Dana - Jan 16, 2013 9:49:11 am PST #7933 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I am sitting in the break room and dodging work. I guess that counts as applying my learnings.
sumi - Jan 16, 2013 9:50:16 am PST #7934 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
I had no suspicions. My counselor suggested it on Friday and I did a self-test on Saturday and made the appt with my doctor and here we are.
I'm starting to realize that it makes alot more sense but I wish I had figured it out earlier in life.
Sue - Jan 16, 2013 9:50:18 am PST #7935 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Sue, you are awesome.
They sent us one at work and I was not awesome enough to go into my work email to find it...but I knew they were out there.
Sumi, at least you have a diagnosis??? Yay? I have heard lots of dietary "cures" but nothing specific and I am not sure how credible. A lot of them seemed to involve blaming sugar/wheat/food dyes.
§ ita § - Jan 16, 2013 9:54:30 am PST #7936 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just noticed that True Citrus has two version of their True Orange. One is for drinking, and has stevia, and the other is for cooking/baking and does not.
I'm drinking the cooking stuff, and it's just fine, but I'm sad about the orange/mango only coming with stevia, because I don't remember handling stevia well in the past.
Jesse - Jan 16, 2013 9:57:54 am PST #7937 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Wow, that's really interesting, sumi. I hope you can use it to manage things better, or at least understand yourself better.
That cold/flu chart just pissed me off even more again at my doctor of many years ago insisting I didn't have the flu that one time.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 16, 2013 10:10:44 am PST #7938 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I have no help, sumi, but I am wondering how you broached it with your doctor-- I have been somewhat suspicious for similar reasons as you, as well as having students who are ADHD. When you posted on Livejournal, I did the self test. I feel like at this age, I will sound like a hypochondriac, and am afraid I am being a hypochondriac!
I also have the weird thing where I did very poorly at school (Kindergarten and 1st grade) because of inattention and distraction issues, and then in second grade, between getting a good teacher who challenged me and learning to do other things in class as well as listen (I used to crochet, or write numbers in a series, or when I was older, do other homework) I got better, and was actually really good at school, despite being bad at doing homework on time, remembering my books, etc etc