In the past, I have made lists of things I want to accomplish over the weekend or vacation. I actually finish 50% of them.
These last few months I haven’t even made lists. I’ve been in my room, reading, watching mindless things on YouTube, but mostly too tired to do anything but stare at the ceiling. The weekend ticks past, wasted.
And now I’m on this new medicine. Did it lift the fatigue? Of course it did. It really did. This weekend I made a to-do list of 12 things and did ten of them. And some of the things were exhausting, like gardening.
Placebo effect? Maybe. I was livelier on Saturday than on Sunday. I did sack out all of Sunday morning. And to be fair, Gary put some of the groceries away Saturday because I was overly tired. But, 10 things done out of 12 opposed to 0 out of 0: that’s statistically significant.
Plus, this is supposed to improve my concentration, too. Perhaps I’ll just kill it at work on Monday. That would be nice.
2 responses to “How the new drug works: in practice, not in theory”
HOORAY! Probably you will collect a larger sample size, and may also modulate the activity levels so it is half Saturday, half Sunday instead of all Saturday, thud Sunday, but YES that bodes well!
I hope you get a Good Brain time at work and hope the energy+focus continues beautifully!
KC – Well, work brain seems to be in good shape today. We had an end-of-month deadline that I met. I did put in almost 12 hours extra, though. But, 12 hours of motivation and dopamine hits.