His initial attempts to get help were mostly a disaster. He had an appointment with a local psychiatrist that went south almost immediately. The man knew nothing about attention deficit disorder and was arrogant and dismissive.
We love the nurse practitioner who handles our day-to-day medical needs, but she and the physicians at the local medical clinic are not specialized enough to prescribe the medications that work to help keep the ADD brain under control.
He had mostly given up on getting help when a lovely man (thank you Al!!) who is a friend of my best friend suggested he make an appointment with the local neurologist.
He did. She was willing to treat him and prescribe the drugs he needs.
When he went to see her last week for a routine checkup, she was lamenting that she “lives on peanut butter,” but when she went to the local Walmart to get some, the peanut butter had been cleaned out.
After his appointment with her, he went shopping at Walmart. They had restocked the shelves and peanut butter was available. He wrestled with it for a minute, and then bought two jars of peanut butter and took them to her office.
My husband is a lovely man with a kind heart. I have on occasion poked gentle fun at him here (at least I hope it was gentle), so it is only fair that I should also give him a well earned hug and a public pat on the back for doing something nice for her.
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Yeah for seeing a need and following through! That was very sweet of him! My husband has ADD also...only his bad lungs have slowed him down. :)
I don't know much about ADD. I have a granddaughter who was diagnosed as a child, but she lives a normal life. It seems strange, though, how she forgets certain things: about 15 years ago we took her and 2 of her cousins to Branson. They rode go-carts, we ate at the throwed roll restaurant at Ozark, we went to music shows; we spent plenty of money!. Amber doesn't remember a bit of it. I have to show her pictures, but she still remembers it not at all. Could that be the result of having ADD? She was grown at the time.
Yes it could be part of the ADD. They also remember things that didn't happen. He remembers being stopped by a policeman when he was first driving at about 16 because he was too short and couldn't see over the steering wheel. Except he recently found a photograph showing him driving when he was 16 and he is clearly taller than the steering wheel. It left him flabbergasted. We didn't even realize my husband had ADD until he was much older -- for him, the problem has gotten far worse as he has gotten older. The natural processes that take place in aging brain made it far worse for him.
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