I'm so sorry Liese.

Teppy or other buffista who may know--

I took generic Claritin today . I'm taking 40 mg of Vyvanse, I feel kinda .. spacy. Do I need to be worried about this?

OK, this is pretty wrong, but this is where I find myself. I saw people were checking in as "safe" on Facebook in Austin, and my brother is in Austin (I actually wasn't sure if he was there today, but he is) so I wanted to check in with him. He is fine and told me what happened, and I said something along the lines of people being terrible and then I felt totally awkward because of his wife basically being one of those people being terrible and, um, that's striking me as funny. Just, like, does Miss Manners cover this?

I took generic Claritin today . I'm taking 40 mg of Vyvanse, I feel kinda .. spacy. Do I need to be worried about this?

I couldn't find any interaction listed on the site I usually checked.

Thanks, I coudln't either but I wanted to check. I felt a little.. off but it could just be the claritn

I am starting to feel bad again. belchy. headache behind my eyes and my molars. generally unsettled, like tired, but no way I could fall asleep. food sounds awful and smells awful.

I took pain and gas meds.

do not want.

I got sick like this when we picked up mac. sick one night, then really weak and tired during the day but generally fine, then sick again each night.

Aw, man. That was a good run, Seabiscuit.

So sorry about Seabiscuit, Liese.

I hope you feel better soon, msbelle.

Steph - redirecting the conversation sounds good. With grandfather, he couldn't stay on the track of the conversation enough to not say the same inappropriate thing all over again. Mostly when that happened, I just went for walks to get away, but I could do that because my Mom was there. Fortunately he was a pretty quiet person and that didn't happen often.

I'm sorry, Liese. It's never long enough.

Liese, I'm sorry about Seabiscuit.

Steph, a support group might be a good idea, certainly worth a try. My mom's dementia was the hardest thing I ever had to deal with. She went through a period where she would curse and hit. I couldn't really blame her for being angry. Good vibes to you and all your family dealing with Jack. The only thing you can know for sure is that things will change.

In me news, I'm dealing with my anxiety-induced complete inability to get anything done in the week before I travel. Now I'm down to two days left before I leave, and I'm not packed, the house is a mess (and I want to have at least the downstairs looking presentable for the petsitter), and I haven't gotten a haircut or a new phone like I wanted to. I could do all of it in two days, but I shouldn't have made myself have to, and doing that depends on, y'know, actually doing something at some point. It's a stupid problem to have! It makes me mad. All my problems could be fixed by just doing the things and I cannot. It's not just travel, I'm fighting this lack of ability to get anything done all the time, it's just that it's important to be able to pack for a nine-day trip sometime before three hours before leaving (while panicking and crying and desperately searching for that thing I thought was right there). I know it's anxiety and executive-function problems and I know where it comes from in my personal history, but none of that knowing fixes the damn problem. I hate myself for this and I feel so so stupid.