Category Archives: meds

This week’s RealMental post

Plateau,” over at Real­Men­tal, hope­fully self explana­tory regard­ing my neglect to write here and to visit you and your own won­der­ful writ­ing and shar­ing at your blogs.

Never fear, though.  Unlike the Monty Python Dead Par­rot, I’m not dead, merely resting.

This week’s RealMental post

This week’s post, “Quick Fix,” is up.

What’s up: haikuish version

Lam­ic­tal is my friend
good sleep, good mood.
I shall never leave you (again).

* * *

Crap, a real legal job offer.
At some­place I’d like.
Not too many hours.

* * *

Free­lance piece on bar­be­cue.
Tasty, fun. I really want
a salad.

Today’s Real Mental post

A long-winded whinge (long-whinged?) about hav­ing to take pills, day in, day out, and a link to an excel­lent per­spec­tive on Bipo­lar Care­giv­ing, over at Real Men­tal today.

Tumbleweeds

An assort­ment of things in my head right now…

I am enjoy­ing the new/old chair with the fancy uphol­stered seat my friend L. re-cycled to me after get­ting a new din­ing set. It’s just the right height and depth for sit­ting at the table with my legs up on the chair across from me, while I blog and write away.

Tulips are the lol­lipops of the flower world. Either that, or ger­bera daisies. But tulips in Boston are bloom­ing, and the yards are full of lollipops.

Water, Emergen-C, Yogi Tea’s peach detox tea, sports drink. Pee, rinse, repeat.

Down­loaded the new NIN album, free online at their site. It’s awe­some– I lurve Trent Reznor.

The lady at the gro­cery store with the scream­ing, ear-infected infant who took time out of her busy day to cas­ti­gate me for my made-in-China chi­nese mary janes, dec­o­rated with cute neon but­tons by lit­tle old moi, didn’t like it when I asked her back, “do you under­stand the car­bon impact of bring­ing another human into the world?” I like kids, really, but when you’re tot­ing yours in a $1000 stroller? Holier-than-thou 0– sar­casm 1.

Had a won­der­ful mas­sage last night with lots of lymph drainage work. I am a snotty mess this morn­ing, but I feel worlds bet­ter on the with­drawal end of things. Almost like myself, just with a toxin-release-induced cold. I’ll take it. Why isn’t mas­sage pre­scribed for every bipo­lar in drug tox­i­c­ity with­drawal? It should be a stan­dard of care. I will ask my doc­tor Friday.