From the The Universal Household Assistant or What Every One Should Know (1884):

Things to try. — Try popcorn for nausea.    Try cranberries for malaria.    Try a sun-bath for rheumatism.    Try ginger ale for stomach cramps.    Try clam broth for a weak stomach.    Try cranberry poultice for erysipelas.    Try a wet towel to the back of the neck when sleepless.    Try swallowing saliva when troubled with sour stomach.    Try eating fresh radishes and yellow turnips for gravel.    Try eating onions and horseradish to relieve dropsical swellings.    Try buttermilk for removal of freckles, tan, and butternut stains.    Try taking your cod liver oil in tomato catsup, if you want to make it palatable.    Try hard cider -- a wine-glass three times a day -- for ague and rheumatism.    Try taking a nap in the afternoon if you are going to be out late in the evening.    Try breathing the fumes of turpentine or carbolic acid to remove whooping cough.    Try a cloth wrung out from cold water put about the neck at night for sore throat.    Try snuffing powdered borax up the nostrils for catarrhal "cold in the head."    Try walking with your hands behind you if you find yourself becoming bent forward.    Try a silk handkerchief over the face when obliged to go against a cold piercing wind.    Try planting sunflowers in your garden if compelled to live in a malarial district.

it's a new day
i woke up around 6am
very early for having gone to bed at 2am
only 4 hours of sleep
couldn't get back to sleep, so decided to go with being awake
having a nice cup of coffee right now
i have a feeling today will be a good day
sure, it will have it's bad moments
everyday does
but i believe it will be better than yesterday
i'm actually looking forward to it
it seems so odd to be looking forward to something after last night
but i am

the seroquel has failed to knock me out
it has just made me very groggy and slow
i am moving through molasses.
it is very had to type this
i don't feel good
i'm going to take some klonopin in hopes of achieving sleep

I didn't make any progress on my room last night. At all. Did very badly mentally, very panicked and switchy, until I finally got myself to sleep. I wish I had something to just knock myself out with sometimes.

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Harriette showed up at 9:00 this morning, as planned. We talked again about an hour about what services I can expect from her as my community case manager. After that topic was covered, the conversation went in it's own directions. I ended up loaning her my Scientific American with the article "The Neurobiology of Child Abuse", because I thought it would interest her.

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This afternoon, I have a meeting at the Wayside Center with Harriette, my MBHP intensive case manager, a representative from the Lexington Crisis Center, a representative from the Cambridge Health Alliance, and my Lawyer. It should be interesting.

Can't get back to sleep. Went to sleep around 11. Woke up a little after 2. Haven't been able to get myself back to sleep, even though I feel tired. At this point I might as well stay up, as I have to leave the house early this morning for an appointment with my therapist.

One side effect of the Risperdal has been a totally fucked up sleep pattern. I can't go to sleep unless I'm totally exhausted (like now). Either I can't stay awake or I can't go to sleep, there is no inbetween. I have a have to meet with my psychiatrist and Mandy tomorrow and pick up the rent check from Petra Wednesday. I don't know if I'll be able to pull it off. All these things are important for me to do. I need to meet with my psychiatrist and friends. I need to bring this problem up with my psychiatrist tomorrow.