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ADHD-meds-a-day-early hellscape update:

(tl;dr)

A full week trying to get this done

5 MyChart threads

2+ hours on the phone

At least an hour over multiple phone calls with my doctor’s office trying to convince AI and reception that I need to talk to an actual human

3 pharmacy visits

… I finally got a fucking amazing nurse at another location who not only took care of the prescription right away, she spent a ridiculous amount of time on hold to talk to the extremely overworked pharmacy and expedite it so I could pick it up before work. AND when I got to the pharmacy I got the same tech the nurse had talked to and I think I embarrassed her by thanking her so much.

Result:

I HAVE A WHOLE MONTH’S WORTH OF ADDERALL IN MY HANDS.

I wish I had the nurse’s direct line so I could thank her omg she saved my LIFE.

AND NOW. It’s the last real day of classes and I’m three hours behind on all the work I need to do before 6pm but I HAVE ADHD MEDICATION. Repeat: I HAVE ADHD MEDICATION.

Turning my phone off now. If you see me online anytime before 11pm tell me to fuck off.

#adhd #also I am so frazzled and overworked that I spent all my non-teaching hours making lists and charts and organizing desktops #because I cannot hold any information in my brain and I need to digitize it #anyway #nurse from anothe location I freaking adore you

thebibliosphere

Why must I be awake.

thebibliosphere

#another victim of the woke agenda

@natalieironside what's it like being one of the funniest mother fuckers on the planet?

natalieironside

I wish it paid more

#I LOLed #the woke agenda

sexhaver

not my pic but this is the cleanest Storrowing i've ever seen. hats and roofs off to this unknown rental truck driver for full sending it with 0 hesitation

massachusetts-official

Official Post of Massachusetts

#really sticking the landing on this storrowing right here #impressive!#massachusetts #boston #storrowing

Whingeing. What is tl;dr for “short but ;dr anyway?”

Oh my GOD the number of hoops I, an adult of a certain age who has been on this medication for more than a decade, need to jump through to get my Adderall one. day. early.

We need an I have had ADHD all my life and am not a criminal certification card. Like TSA Precheck or something.

It’s not even an insurance thing. It’s a controlled substance thing. I’d like to say **** the FDA but I’m not taking any chances of getting (even more) blackballed.

#adhd #americans on stimulants for adhd all know my pain and I know yours #asshole in the white house breaking laws left and right #the real danger is from people who just want to do their jobs #/rant over I have shit to do #nonproductive anger #dear self: stop

thundergrace

WOW I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS MY FAVORITE TELEVISION SERIES OF ALL TIME (it's not out yet)

#oh #so that’s why I still have prime #gimme. right now.#ride or die

gatesofminrathous

there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.

short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.

meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.

#accurate

TWIL (this week I learned) that earworms are something people go to the doctor to fix.

I thought that was just part of being a person. (Almost) everyone gets them sometimes, right?

I have music stuck in my head literally 24/7 (yes, even while doing other things and often while listening to other music) and it would never in a million years occur to me that it was a medical problem.

Please share your opinions on this matter.

#earworms #the 24/7 jukebox in my head

depsidase

victusinveritas

#marjane satrapi #yes

goth-queen

#basically every academic before second wave feminism #and more than a few after

stephenroot

New type of guy just dropped.

massachusetts-official

Official Post of Massachusetts

#most cambridge ad ever #massachusetts #taking the erville out of camberville

parkchanwoohoo

How does this eve-- whatever

crazy-pages

Honestly, I respect this. Is this a very dumb rich person problem that he threw money at? Yes, absolutely.

But one of my hats is safety coordinator for industrial research, and something our safety department asks us to remind our researchers regularly is that safety doesn't stop being a thing just because you're DIYing it at home. People very often make very stupid decisions when it comes to projects they are doing in their own home. (And industrial research scientists collect home projects like magpies collect shiny things.)

It would have been easy for this guy to try to climb up there himself or pay some random schmuck to do it or ask some friend whose kid rock climbs to do it. There is an entire category of tragic stories associated with people doing home improvement, realizing they need to get up somewhere high, and they or whoever they ask for help not being safe about it. But that's not what he did. He paid professionals for it, he paid a pair of them so they could be extra safe about it, he paid them rush and hazard pay, and they did navigate what would have been a dangerous task safely.

And let me tell you, there would be fewer safety horror stories in the world if more rich people and people doing home improvement behaved like this guy.

bemusedlybespectacled

And he paid them fairly for their labor! $150 might not seem like much, but LASIK is at least a couple thousand dollars per eye, so a discounted one is huge.

#I mean #losing your passport is not a dumb rich person problem?#anyway #lol