You mean Jerruh is planning to make a bad decision and hire a guy that was coaching high school less than a decade ago? Color me surprised!
I drink a decent amount of water before bed. It’s hard to oversleep when you have to piss
- regular vigorous exercise - I do this five or six days per week
- no caffeine after about 2 pm
- mostly consistent bedtime
- heating pad, for nights when my lower back is stiff or sore
- white noise in the form of a fan (though I’m going to need something more powerful, as my neighbor has started the lovely habit of watching tv at 330am with no headphones)
- on nights when I’m really having trouble, I have a small stash of chewable 5mg melatonin tablets on my nightstand
Is there any possibility this is done just to make it blindingly obvious to the viewer that Breakfast Is Happening™?
Seems like someone grabbing a couple breakfast bars and a canned beverage might plausibly finish the task quickly enough that a viewer may not notice, particularly if it’s not the foreground of the scene.
Or maybe it’s for the same reason anyone coming back from the grocery store will have a paper bag with celery stalks and a baguette poking out the top? No reason other than that it’s the conventional way of demonstrating the trope.
When I was in middle school, on an organized camping trip to a lake where we would work on our canoeing skills, another kid and I started to horseplay. We were struggling over who could take a specific canoe paddle. My opponent held the handle, and I the blade. We each tried using the paddle to shove at the other & cause them to lose control, thereby securing the paddle for our own exclusive use.
Nevermind that there were a dozen other equally good paddles laying around unclaimed, we had to fight over that specific paddle.
I wound up losing my grip right as my opponent shoved. The blade hit me square on the bridge of my nose. I bled like crazy.
It wasn’t until several years afterwards that I realized how perilously close I had come to losing one or both eyes.
Only reason why I’m not cheering for a meteor strike is because a coworker’s husband is at the game in person.
I’m cheering for a sloppy game that makes Ohio State look dumb in victory and makes UT look dumberer in defeat. A thrilling 7-3 game with more dropped passes than completions.
- Kevin Hart -> 5’2” / 158 cm
- The Rock -> 6’4” / 193 cm
- Shaq -> 7’1” / 216 cm
- Yao Ming -> 7’6” / 229 cm
Shame that Voyager doesn’t appear to have a way to input a clean table in a comment.
More plausible than him being in the North American Marlon Brando Look Alikes.
Yeah but has Sheila Ford Hamp ever been dumb enough to get busted at a rub and tug parlor?
Yep I was referring to Urban “I kick players and miss team flights so I can drink with 19 year old coeds” Meyer
It was legitimately that fast. I acknowledge my experience may well be atypical.
I procrastinated on it for ages as well, having trouble mustering enthusiasm for starting a six month or more journey for a diagnosis.
My FIL recently passed, and he had a terrible track record of not addressing his medical problems in a timely manner. So I figured, fuck it, why not look into it. I already had an annual physical scheduled in the next week, so I figured there wouldn’t be any harm in verifying with BCBS that my specific plan covered ADHD. Luckily it did. So then I asked my primary care doc about it.
Going into my visit with the psychiatrist, I was fully expecting to need several visits over the space of a few months for an official diagnosis, so I was very surprised after the questionnaires were done that she stepped out (maybe to score against reference? idk), stepped back in, told me I was formally officially diagnosed, and time to talk medication for it.
Who knows, maybe it ordinarily does take a few visits but I scored that well (or that poorly) that additional visits would’ve been superfluous. She did note, with the barest hint of a chuckle, that I paused one of my answers so I could lean over to another chair in her office and straighten out the rug that had gotten bunched up underneath.
It worked out far better than my worst case scenario,
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which would’ve been along the lines of “Mr Superduperpirate, you don’t actually have ADD, ADHD, or autism. You’re just a lazy shitbag who needs to pull his head out of his ass and stop being such a whiny little bitch.” Which I know sounds crazy. Any doc outside the military who spoke to a patient in such a rude manner would hopefully face severe enough consequences to dissuade them from doing so.
At least he’s not the guy who is physically abusive to players
When I was in early elementary school, my dad would take me & my sister to the local mall. He would get us all books at the Waldenbooks - he would get a scifi pulp novel, I would get a Garfield book, and my sister would get a Calvin & Hobbes book. Then he’d take us to a restaurant there in the mall, and we’d have a nice leisurely lunch while reading our new books.
I was recently diagnosed with ADHD (combined).
I am a US resident & citizen. I am covered under Blue Cross Blue Shield. If these details do not apply in your case, what I went through may differ from what you’ll need to go through.
About a month ago, I had a regularly scheduled annual physical with my primary care doc, who is part of a regional physician group. I inquired about what would be needed for exam & possible diagnosis for ADHD. He said I’d need to see a psychiatrist, which their physician group does not have in house, but that I wouldn’t need a formal referral, just find one in-network.
I used the BCBS website to find an in-network provider near me, which happened to be part of a different regional physician group. Called their office to verify they take my insurance. They did, and were able to schedule me for an intake+assessment last week.
I showed up, filled out paperwork, and met with my psychiatrist for a bit over an hour. She had extensive questionnaires to go through with me. On conclusion, she diagnosed me with ADHD combined & offered me my choice of a stimulant or non-stimulant treatment. After discussing my situation in further detail, she prescribed atomoxetine (aka Strattera). I’ve been on it for less than a week. She said it takes time to build up in my system and that it may be a month before I notice any differences. I have a followup scheduled for a month from now, and will presumably have regular followups indefinitely.
My copay for the office visit was $25, and my copay for the prescription itself was around $10-$15. I have very good insurance, so YMMV.
I wish you nothing but good luck on this.
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