1.  Spanish class was moved from Tuesday night to Monday night at the last minute, because the people who plan these things at CCAE are kind of yutzes.  However, the teacher seems cool, and my therapist has successful shifted me to Tuesdays in spite of initial fears that would not be possible.  (Quitting therapy was never the option, because I'm ( Read more... )

So Friday night I met up with my Psycho Pharm and was told I was doing wonderfully, and may just have to spend the rest of my life on a 10mg to 20mg maintainence dose of Gleemonex.  This is pretty great news, however, I managed to put in a "does that mean medication is optional?" moment that irritated the hell out of everyone.  "Low dose" is ( Read more... )

1.  One of my uncles won an axe throwing contest.  Now he wants to form a family team.  He couldn't have chosen a group of people less fundementally suited to axe throwing, yet he soldiers on ( Read more... )

Sorry I haven't been updating much.  Fatigue is my biggest side effect with these pills, so most nights I have just about enough energy to cook dinner or clean up after dinner, do a little yoga, and then collapse into a tired heap in front of Home Movies or Una Familia Con Suerte.  The past three or four nights have been an improvement over the ( Read more... )

The OCD symptoms seem to have been the first to resolve themselves.  For the first time in years, or maybe ever, I don't have the urge to run back to check everything in my apartment when I'm already half way to the bus.  Also, the compulsive thought cycles about how irritating behavior "x" or "y" in some people (or the entire population of Boston ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm officially borderline bipolar.  They can't decide if I'm more unipolar with frequent periods of hypomania or truly bipolar -- after a routine evaluation and reviewing my records, the NP was like "my God, you're just right on the fence - how frustrating," so they're starting me on a low dose of antidepressants and if I don't go into a ( Read more... )

Spending a lot of time with Eric's family lately, which is interesting because we don't get to see them as much, as they live over an hour away.  (That may not seem like much to people from other parts of the country, but in Massachusetts that's a long distance.)  Our first trek into the howling void of west of Boston (kidding) was to Eric's aunt ( Read more... )

Set up the evaluation, it's at 2pm and will last an hour to an hour and a half.  It will cost $148 because my insurance isn't covering it, it's a part of my deductible, because I haven't been diagnosed with anything yet.  Un. Fucking. Believable. The receptionist was trying to find a slot on her calendar for next week because apparently my faxed ( Read more... )

Q.  What meds are you considering?

Ephemerol.  No, seriously, I'm not telling.  You'll tell me the horrible side effects and it'll be like the time I went on birth control pills, got a pain in my leg, and decided it was a blood clot.  Ha ha ha.  I'm on to that game. 

1.  I think I've swam more this summer than I have in years ( Read more... )