What follows are the exact words I wrote in an email today:
Here’s a laugh for you. So I’ve been really dragging since the weekend. (I’m starting to see a pattern of having a really bad week just before my Tysabri infusion. Almost like the stuff wears off or I’m going through some kind of withdrawl). Anyway, I slept through most of Monday so today is the only day I have without therapy or a doctor’s visit this week. I’ve got holiday stuff piling up and the cleaning lady is supposed to come today. Also have to take Gracie for her checkup this afternoon. So, I took a whole stimulant pill (Nuvigil). I normally only take a half, but I really thought I needed a lot of help today to stay awake. I downed it with a diet coke. By the time I got out of the shower I was like an early 1970′s housewife on diet pills!! I started putting things away for the cleaning lady and that somehow turned into a frenzy of straightening and organizing and I basically cleaned the whole downstairs with the exception of dusting or vacuuming. Then I went upstairs and started straightening up Gracie’s room which turned into feverish toy organizing. This drug gives me a little bit of OCD I’m noticing. So her room is gorgeous other than the vacuuming.
Then I got to my bedroom and started to put away some books on the nightstand which turned into alphabetizing and categorizing the books. About half an hour ago I realized that my legs were aching and my back was really hurting. So I decided to go grab another diet coke a snack and some advil.
It was then that I realized that the Cleaning Lady had never come!!!! I think she forgot us!! It wouldn’t be the first time she was a no show. It’s a good thing I’ve basically already cleaned the damned house!! I even dusted my bookshelves with a sock, LOL.
I’ve got about another hour left before the drug wears off so I’m going to try to wrap some presents. Why waste good drugs right?
Well the story ends with the cleaning lady finally showing up and cleaning the house in a record 1.5 hours! Hmmm…wonder why.
How am I feeling now at 2:45pm? Well, the thing about Nuvagil is that it doesn’t actually give me more energy, it just makes me think I have more energy. It is actually a Narcoplepsy medication that they give to MS patients to help with the overwhelming fatigue that plagues us every day. It makes us feel mentally more alert instead of trying to think through cold pea soup. The bad part is that it makes me think I can do things that I really can’t. As I sit here at my desk, now beyond exhausted, my back hurts and I seem to have done something bad to my right leg. The cat is looking at me funny, and I only managed to do two of the things on my list because I spent so much time in an OCD frenzy.
I suppose the moral of the story is to JUST SAY NO TO DRUGS!
Photo Courtesy of Steven Snodgrass
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Too funny, was wondering what happened to you!!!
I heard the frenetic walking back and forth upstairs and I was wondering what was going on. Thanks for clarifying. And don’t take a whole pill again. Reminds me when they Valium intravenously when I had a breast tumor removed under local anesthetic. When I crashed off that I cried for 3 hours straight! Never had valium again.