6/27/08 Breakfast, lunch, snack
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I’m adapting well to eating food again. I still eat too much, and need to reign it in more, but I eat a hell of a lot more produce these days. GOOD produce. In season produce. Organic produce.

Next on the list: Local produce.

So I had my ADD appointment today.

I scored 20 out of 20 on the two different little tests he ran me through.

Go Team!

And I do have a diagnosis as well: Combined type.

That would be the one where you have both the inattentive type of ADD as well as the hyperactive type of ADD. I’d always thought they were mutually exclusive, but apparently not. (He asked me the main reasons I’m seeking treatment: 1. Poor impulse control (that’s a hyperactive type symptom), and 2. Procrastination (that’s an inattentive type symptom.))

Once they’re vetted past my primary care physician I get drugs. Ritalin in fact. Woot!

I also scored well on the Bipolar test he put me on, but a lot of those symptoms overlap with ADD and he said that he doesn’t think I have it. He asked me to keep a log of symptoms though, just in case.

So day 1: lots of mania and “up”, but I think that’s mostly because I’m excited to have a diagnosis and the part where he told me that some drugs will help with some of my symptoms. According to him I’ll still have to work hard to maintain, they can’t fix that, but some of it will get easier. Like procrastination, and maybe a little bit of impulse control about food. Woot!

In other, unrelated news, after eating 2 earthworms and 2 pinkies yesterday, Dr. Sampson hasn’t shown his face at all. I dug him out to make sure he was still alive, and he dug himself deeper into his hole. As long as he moved, it’s all good. Maybe I’ll start feeding him pinkies on Fridays so he’s not so hungry over the weekend.

I have a toad that eats mice.

I RULE.