[I have recently been prescribed double the dose of Ritalin previously prescribed because each pill keeps me awake for only eight hours. I'm trying to be awake for sixteen daily, like a normal person. So I called my doc and now am to take one in the morning and one later in the day. Which I am very happy about, but may worry a friend of mine. I e-mailed her -- a postscript to an e-mail I previously sent to her -- explaining why more Ritalin is a good thing, though it's likely she doesn't... Read Full Story
I call her after I drink the fifth of Stoli to a certain level. She doesn't notice I'm drunk and continue to get more so. Her: "My ex is stalking me..." Her, later: "I think he's gotten over it..." Me: "The last thing you want is for him to get over it. The last thing you want is for anyone to get over anything. You need power over everyone. That power turns the crank that juts out of your back." (I don't know if I just came up with that or if I'm reiterating it.) Later, me: "The fact... Read Full Story
[I got into a hyper-religion-investigating mode yesterday and thought I'd post this instead of my own ranting. And I also promise to get on some other topic after this post.] From Exodus 34: 1. Behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: But ye shall destroy... Read Full Story
[I know the proper saying is "...tree." The reason I modified it will become clear.] I was sent an e-mail that had a bunch of cool pictures of rock formations that looked like animals. After the pictures was this plea: to take ONE MINUTE to say the lord's prayer, to not be ashamed of your love for god, and to show it by passing the chain e-mail along. My response to the sender: [The creation of every formation is] explicable by natural phenomena. Cool though. I take this e-mail as an... Read Full Story
I'm having mixed results with the extended-release Ritalin. Yesterday I awoke at two p.m. but had to go to sleep at ten p.m. last night. I was freaking exhausted, despite having taken a Rit promptly upon waking. Perhaps the release isn't so extended... But the previous day I couldn't get to sleep until six or seven a.m. I had been awake for what felt like forever, but was probably about sixteen hours. And now I'm awake and it's eight a.m. However, I woke up at three. Perhaps in the... Read Full Story
[From now on all short stories, like poems, will have titles in all-lowercase so you can easily tell the posts that have to do with fibro -- the diaristry (I like making up words) -- from the ones that (usually) do not. A new blog devoted to shorts and poems to be announced soon.] It Could [Have] Be[en] Sweet (please begin playing thePortishead selection below) Stereotypically, I developed a huge crush on her because she pushed me away for so long and that crush went away as soon as we... Read Full Story
Well, who the fuck knows how that went. ...I just know I don't. The psych who administered the exam seemed sympathetic, but the cognitive memory disorder test was too easy. Every psych (two prev.) but this one asked me to remember three or five very specific things, and let me know I would have to recall them after five minutes of conversation (which I cannot do). Didn't happen this time. I was asked who the current president is (and had to taste his name in my mouth as I said it... I need... Read Full Story
I feel like I'm beginning to live a childhood I never had, having just been prescribed Ritalin, since I never had ADD/ADHD/whatever the hell kids who won't sit at their desks and shut the hell up are "diagnosed" with these days. (The real problem: The kids don't function at all well in a stupidly structured environment and parents and teachers don't have so much as the inclination to deal with them on their wavelength. Thank you DSM-IV for letting bad parents and teachers off the hook... And... Read Full Story
Lazio -- Thanks for the kind words! And there are so many clones of Dr Douchebag out there it's freaking amazing...
Bastards like this would actually *have* to *have* what we do to empathize with us. ...And even then I think they'd be too mired in self-pity to truly give a shit.
Gotta run, but glad you like what I've been writing, and hope you continue to do so!
Love your FM posts. I have it too, it's a fucking bitch. I believe we've met some of the same doctors - Dr. Douchebag sounds just like the "specialist" I saw in L.A. What a bunch of retards.
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