Sunday, January 4, 2009

Silver Linings

I woke up this morning with my nose as stuffed up and useless as if it had been filled with cement. My head was pounding. My tongue was thick with the disgusting film that breathing through your mouth all night brings. I moaned in distress, "I'm sick!" Through my haze of misery I detected a little niggling at the back of my brain. I lay still and let it swim to the front where I could catch it - drugs. Drugs! Glorious drugs! Bad is weaned. For the first time in almost 3 years, I can take a decongestant. I can take painkillers stronger than a regular Tylenol. For the first time in 3 years, and after countless colds and sinus infections suffered in stoic and drug-free silence, I can take medicine! What's more, I can take it without first staging a finger-wagging internal debate. Yay! I'm off to Shoppers now, to lay claim to my own little slice of pharmaceutical heaven.

xo Badness

8 comments:

chichimama said...

Enjoy! And take a smaller dose than you used to :-). I found that after 4+ years of no meds, my body needed a lot less to do the trick!

Anonymous said...

Ooooh. Enjoy your drugs. I will have to live vicariously through you for some time yet!

Veronica Foale said...

I have the jealousy.

I feel rotten and can't take a damn thing aside from paracetemol. Sometimes lemon and honey drinks just don't cut it.

Kellan said...

Oh, I hope you feel better soon and I also wanted to wish you a Happy New Year!

See you soon - Kellan

Mighty Morphin' Mama said...

OOh, that is good news!
Hope you feel better soon.

Beth Cotell said...

Enjoy your drugs! I hope you feel better soon!

Anonymous said...

Uh, girlfriend, now that Bad is weaned, you could do meth if you so chose. Not that I'm advocating that.

Heidi said...

Yay, medication!
I also love the photos of the first hair cut, ha ha.