Why I'm called blonde...

I guess I have to tell you what happened to me at work Friday. I have recently found out that I have sleep apnea and hypersomnia. I have trouble staying awake during the day at work and especially when I'm driving. And yes, if I get really sleepy when I'm driving...I pull over. Anyways. They gave me a prescription for Nuvigil to take during the day so I stay awake. Wow...LOL. Here's my day: 9:30am I had a chocolate Visalus shake and went ahead and took my Nuvigil pill. 1:30pm I had a chocolate Visalus shake for lunch. During the day I've also been drinking a Mountain Dew. (This is normal for me since I'm trying to find all kinds of ways to stay awake.) Around 3 I started noticing that I was typing alot faster than I usually do and when I would try to make myself slow down I couldn't focus and would mess up a lot. (I already can type around 90wpm so I have no clue how fast I was going.) This is when I noticed I had taken the Nuvigil, 2 CHOCOLATE shakes, and a whole bottle of Mountain Dew! I went to Employee Health because I was starting to get dizzy and getting a headache. No one was in there besides the secretary. So I went to Education (next closest place that I figured had a blood pressure cuff.) I walked in there and they flipped out on me and made me walk to the ER with one of the Nursing Educators. My face was really red from what they said but I'm always like that when I'm hot. I got down to the ER and it was packed! So the lady that's with me starts rambling off to the ER Tech what all I had taken making me sound really bad of course. LOL. The ER Tech started laughing and took me to take my BP and it was 151/82. Which the top number is high but the bottom number is good. I wasn't worried because I knew what I had done already, but I was just wondering what my BP was. Well I'll never worry again at work. Good lord! I got back to my office (no one knew where I was) and told them what happened and of course they all thought it was funny. I ended up leaving work early because I couldn't make myself sit still and I was starting to talk fast. LOL.

Then we had the VBS carnival.

Then we went to the drive in and I actually stayed awake for the entire 2 movies! I never ever do that. I almost always doze off during the 1st and definately during the 2nd. I ended up not going to bed til 3:30 Saturday morning and got right back up at 8am. Note to self: do not take a stimulant drug with that much caffeine EVER again. :)