Argh mateys!

Harris has been seeing a pediatric eye doctor for his lazy eye (yeah, he got it from me) for the last year or so. Said lazy eye keeps stumping said doctor because it keeps changing directions (sometimes in and sometimes out) and his vision keeps changing in this eye. Well, the closest thing to a decision that the doctor has offered me is to patch Harris for two hours a day for the next three months and then he should be a candidate for surgery. I wore a patch, and I had the same surgery in fifth grade. The best part is that a month or two before Harris was given the patching RX, he got WAY into pirates! Works out good!

Official Biz-niz!

I am arranging meals for Emily Mcarthur who just had a baby right before Christmas. M,T,W and Thu of next week are available and the meal can be dropped off on or before 6pm. Please let me know if you are interested/able!! Thanks!

p.s.- Sorry if this is irritating or breaks all the blog ettiquette rules but I figure since I have no email skills and only know how to email one person at a time, this is my best solution besides individually calling people up which is really putting them on the spot! This way anyone who is in a position to do this particular brand of service in this particular week of their lives can and all others don't even need to respond! Thank you guys! Spread the word if you feel so inclined.

Gettin' There!

Okay. So I went to the drug dealer's yesterday. I prayed, as usual, that I would say what was needed in a way he would understand and that we would both be guided to the right treatments. I told him how my anxiety has improved drastically. I told him it's now a 3 instead of a 10. Then I told him that while the anxiety has moved to stage right, now my OCD has taken center stage. This is pretty normal, that once one illness is under control another pops up for attention. These illnesses are in the same vein and are contolled by the same brain chemical. Lack of Seretonin has always been my key issue. I don't sruggle too much with depression (I said, not too much!) and thanks to my HORRIBLE Hulk incident I no longer have to convince myself that ADD is the reason for all my woes. See, I always thought I was forgetful, scatterbrained etc., etc., due to ADD. But it turns out my brain was always stuck in obsessive looping thoughts and it was also trying to deal with level ten anxiety all the time so I couldn't keep my thoughts/life together.


Okay, now that I have bored you with the mumbo jumbo... He's upping one of my meds to help it address the OCD. The same drugs treating my anxiety will treat the OCD just using higher dosages. Also, he still may put me on a touch of Ritalin to help me hone my thoughts and focus more although he nor I believe I have ADD. This drug and the like can be helpful to people even without ADD contrary to popular belief. P.S.-Ritalin is a much lighter stimualant than the stuff I was taking as the Hulk.


Finally! I'm seeing this process all the way through and it's paying off! I'm almost to the fine tuning stage! Then I should be on the perfect mix for my chemical brain makeup and all will be well til' the drug companies screw with stuff so they can become richer. Okay, that doom and gloom thinking is my level 3 anxiety talkin'!
Here's to mental wellness! It's worth the long, hard road! And it's much faster when you stay on that road no matter how bumpy it gets!

Hubby Tag

1. He's sitting in front of the tv. What's on the screen?
Football or UFC

2. You are out to eat. What dressing does he get on his salad?
Ranch, ranch and more ranch.

3. What's one food he doesn't like?
Most seafood

4. You go out to a bar. What does he drink first?
Old Jared: whiskey sour New Jared: virgin daquari

5. Where did he go to high school?
Rigby High School in Idaho

6. If he were to collect anything, what would it be?
cell phones

7. What shoe size does he wear?
9 1/2. I don't know how he doesn't fall over!

8. What is his favorite type of sandwich?
B.L.T.

9. What would he eat every day if he could?
Jamba Juice....Peach Pleasure. I guess that's drinking though.

10. What would he never wear?
The color pink.

11. What is his favorite sports team?
Denver Broncos

12. What is something you do that he wishes you didn't do so much?
interrupt him

13. How many states has he lived in?
Four- Idaho, Wyoming, Tennessee, and Texas

14. What is his heritage?
German fo sho.

15. You bake him a cake for his birthday. What kind of cake would it be?
He hates cake, so I would buy him Blue Bell vanilla ice cream. He's addicted.

16. Did he play sports in high school?
Football.

17. What could he spend hours doing?
Watching football.