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The above picture is the back of a humpback whale, a small one.   We saw this whale in Depot Bay, Oregon, and he/she was fairly content with staying in this area next to the coastline.  This is about as much as I could get in a picture, not knowing where the whale would surface.  Never did see where the mother was but hopefully not too far off. 

It has been almost 10 days since I started on the new med for ADHD and depression, and so far I’ve not noticed any benefit.  Pretty sure it has negatively affected my medicine for restless leg syndrome as well as what I take for head pain.  Will be discussing this with the prescribing physician during my next scheduled appointment.  The prescription is to last 30 days and to the time of my next appointment.  Since I’m presently not working I’ll give it the full 30 days to see if there is any benefit.  It is also possible my level of patience has lessened too.  Before my next appointment I’ll have my wife note any possible changes she has noticed and pass that along to the doctor. 

Yesterday I had my 58^th birthday and it was a wonderful day.  My daughter was kind enough to cook pancakes for me for breakfast.  The prior day she took me to see the movie Black Panther.  We both enjoyed the movie a lot.  The pancakes were very tasty.  The gift from them both was surprising and very nice.  Won’t go into any details however. 

On the subject of traumatic brain injury….  Over the past year, if I remember correctly, I’ve discovered the problem with being self-aware of things, including myself.  Could say I’ve become aware of the problem of lacking self-awareness.   A neuropsychological evaluation showed this as well.  Knowing the problem exists helps understand things a bit more, but only a bit.  In my case, and what the evaluation showed, was a bad case of depression, and ADHD(secondary to the brain injury).  Of course, I was not aware of this.  My thought was this is just how life is and accepted it.  Apparently, this self-awareness issue is characteristic of damage to the frontal lobe/s of the brain.  The primary damage I have is to the right frontal lobe.  Must admit it’s a little annoying knowing I may have to rely on others to tell me things that I’m incapable of being aware of myself, and about me.  Don’t know if this new medicine will help with that or not.  Oh well, as they say, life goes on.