Here's Hoping

Yesterday I went to my family doctor to talk about a new medication for my A.D.D.

I have been taking Concerta since about the 8th grade I think and it has always worked fine. I got off of about a year after I finished high school thinking that since I wasn't sitting in a classroom all day I would be free from the medicine for the rest of my life.

Yea, that was a dumb thing to think.

About a year ago I went back to the doc and asked to be put back on my medicine. I constantly lose things. If you are friends with me and my husband on Face Book it is not out of the norm to see him post on my wall to call him. WHY would he need to post that so regularly? Well, because I always forget to charge my phone, or I lose it. And since he always keeps the iPad charged, he knows it will alert me with an FB notification and I can call him from the computer. It's pretty annoying. 

Lets see, what else do I do...

I have a hard time focusing. Please imagine how much focusing it takes to keep a house clean. A LOT! Staying on task and finishing housework is just as important and hard to do as focusing on a task at work. I have found little tricks that help me. Like I will set the timer on the stove for 7 min and clean in each room for only those 7 min. When the timer goes off I stop what I am doing and change rooms. If it is any longer than that I will get bored and just stop all together. I have to keep things moving for me to concentrate. 

I also am a habitual list maker, I guess most women and mothers are. And I guess I am super impulsive. I agree to things insanely quick. 

So, being a stay at home mom and not having any real boss but myself is not a good combo. That's why I went back on the medication. But something must have changed since I have had both kids, or maybe something changed since I was on it for so long and stopped taking it. Either way, that crap made me super sad. Around the 5th day of taking it I spent half of my day in tears because my best friend moved to New York. Um, she moved to New York 5 years ago.....so where was this coming from! We talk on the phone about once a week too, so it was weird that I was so emotional about her moving. After a couple more weeks of just dragging around and feeling completely down I just quit taking it and never got it refilled.

Now I am on this new medicine, Vyvanse. I am really excited about it because it is supposed to last for 12 hours, and all the reviews I have read about it have been really positive. 

Im excited to be focused and organized.

Now let me go scrub some floors and clean some counter tops....without a timer going off!