In a message dated 03/02/2002 11:02:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Sometimes I think I may have the adult version of ADD. I find that I get sidetracked so easily. That's what makes this so hard. >> Linda, I have the same problem. I know everyone here jokes about how they start to do the dishes & then start to water the plants & then end up picking up toys & paying the bills like that poem "but first" that was floating around earlier. I have the problem to the extreme where I might go downstairs a half dozen times to get something to thaw for dinner out of the freezer & end up switching a load of clothes in the washer, checking my email, answering the phone or whatever & dinner time comes & "oh no" I never got anything out!!! I can be on the phone in the house & see them mail truck pull up so I will tell the person to hold on a moment & I run out to get the mail. Well, I stand there in the yard looking to see if there is anything important-separating the junk & my mind goes into never-never land. If I go towards the outside trash can in the back yard to put the junkmail in I pick up any trash in the yard I see on the way, I put away the bikes or scooters that are still out, I start pulling weeds, I even have gotten out the clippers & started pruning the bushes...all the while my mother or whoever is holding on the phone for me. She usually holds on for 15 minutes or so since she figures I am talking to a neighbor or some other distraction but then she will hang up & call & leave me a message reminding me what a goofball I am for leaving her hanging. At the end of the day I have started a dozen or more things & have completed none of them & I have left big messes along the way. I was at the neurologist for this purpose (self diagnosis after reading a newspaper on adult ADD) and he told me I had hypersomnia & didn't want to talk about ADD. I found out later this wasn't his field that I needed a psychiatrist for that diagnosis, but it turned out that he gave me Provigil and Adderall for the sleeping disorder which are the same meds. they give for ADD so I was killing two birds with the same stone. (beat that long sentence LOL) I am feeling much more focused now as long as I can remember to take the pills in the afternoon. If I wait too long weariness hits me at about dinner time like a ton of bricks & if I take the pills then I am up all night. It isn't that I can't sleep at night for with hypersomnia I can sleep at any time and anywhere, but I all of a sudden get a second wind at like 10:00 or 11:00 so I try to take advantage or that & stay up too late doing things-sometimes until 4:00 a.m. This would be OK if I didn't have to get up at 7:00 to take the kids to school & run errands for everyone & their grandmother. I have been trying to get together with Nancy Lee (so far only once) to help her out with her books sales (which will help me financially once they start selling) but so far with my crazy hours & hers also (she has sleeping troubles too) we haven't really gotten it going yet. Speaking of working with Nancy Lee, she asked me to beg a favor of you guys. If any of you have a Radio Shack in your area we are in need of an item called a Quecat (pronounced Q-cat) that they are giving away for free. In our area there are a lot of Radio Shacks but unfortunately they had a lot of them on hand that no one was asking for so they received word for their higher ups to dispose of them. They actually threw them all in the trash. They can be ordered online but there is a cost of about $13.00 a piece for them. We can use as many as we can get so we can have one for each computer. What it is-is like a small scanner like they us in the stores to scan over the barcodes of the books & the information magically appears about book on the computer so it saves a lot of typing time. They are only about 1/2 the size of a mouse-kind of shaped like a microphone so if any of you can come up with some they can probably be easily stuffed in a $3.00 priority mail envelope and mailed to either of us. I called each of the Radio Shacks in my area on the phone to see if they had them before I wasted the time going there. One of them had just thrown out about 20 of them a few days before. We would greatly appreciate any help you can give us with this & I would gladly reimburse the postage to you. You could mail them to either Nancy Lee or myself -- maybe to me would be better then I can make myself get to her house & she would not have to worry about going out to her mailbox. At any rate do what you can I we are grateful. Send me an email if you find any & I will give you the addresses. I have not heard from her in a few days & she was not feeling well at all when I last talked to her so please keep her in your prayers. She is a great lady that over extends herself to the point of endangering her health. (I should talk-Huh?). Well, as usual I have jumped subjects & rambled aimlessly....I don't think there is a pill that can fix that. LOL Linda, If you think you really have ADD-check it out. I regret I didn't do it a long time ago. My kids & husband have suffered from my not being able to focus all of these years. I recommend the Adderall- the Provigil is more to keep me awake during the day. Let me know if you do anything about it & how it helps you. 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