MiP Update

I'm sorry for the unplanned hiatus, and for the total lack of communication about it. Some of what has been happening was out of my control, but I absolutely should have posted to inform people, and that's 100% on me. I'm sorry, and I will try to post about such things more promptly, and without waiting for when I can finally also post a chapter.

What happened:

As I have posted about before, I have ADHD, and I am sensitive to the differences between manufacturers of Adderall. Well, Adderall from the specific manufacturer I need went out of stock, everywhere nearby, with no ETA on when they would have more. Every pharmacy I found that usually carries that manufacturer told me that their supplier was out of stock with no ETA for new stock, and that every other pharmacy that uses that supplier (it's a really big major pharmaceutical supply company) is probably stuck in the same situation.

I ran out of Adderall a bit over a month ago. I just now got off the phone with a pharmacy, and they still have no ETA for when they'll have it again.

My ADHD is severe enough that in the past it got me fired from 2 jobs for poor performance despite my best efforts at focusing without treatment, and the only reason it didn't cost me job #3 was that I finally admitted that I needed treatment, went to a psychiatrist, and started taking Adderall. This made such an enormous difference that my boss at the time directly and specifically commented about the improvement to me within a single week of when I started, even though I hadn't told him anything about it.

Being consistently and reliably productive without some kind of help is all-but impossible for me, and Adderall is the only general-purpose form of such help that I've found to work adequately for me before. Progress on chapter 27 this past month, with no Adderall, was slow, difficult, and intermittent.

Going forward:

I finally got fed up with the supply situation enough to look for potential alternatives I hadn't tried before, and I've recently started trying a new one. Its immediate impact is not as major and obvious as Adderall, but I believe it is making a significant difference already, and it supposedly gets more effective over time as I continue taking it. A large majority of chapter 27, which is now finished, was written after I started taking this new alternative.

I'm hopeful that my new ADHD treatment will prove effective enough to enable me to return to at-least-weekly chapters now, especially if its promised ramp-up of effectiveness proves true. If not, I will try another one, as many times as it takes to find something effective that I can actually rely on without major risk of it running out of stock.

I'm posting chapter 27 to gold and above, with the accompanying chapter unlocks/posts for lower tiers and the public, rather than using it to build up platinum tier's lead, because of the extreme delay.

Now, time to see if I can write chapter 28 in only a single week with this non-Adderall treatment.