So I find Thursday here and still sick. Doctors claim I have pneumonia, pleurisy and “a touch of the flu”..Although I am still not sure how you get a “touch of the flu” but who am I to second guess the doc.
Life has pretty much been miserable. Sleeping mostly, taking meds, thinking happy thoughts. Happy thoughts haven’t been hard with my dose of Cough Syrup with Codeine. The temperature and the cough syrup have sure made my mind find some funny places to go. I think at some time I even went to candy land, climbed a candy tree, and somehow found myself playing with a large set of dice in the big Trouble bubble. Do they even make that game anymore? I can remember many fun nights playing Trouble…Just press the Bubble. *POP* *POP* *POP*
Ok I won’t get started on that one….
Anyhow, so I have found that the drugs I have been given have had some odd effects on me. I figure I don’t need to cover the Codeine. Come on, if you don’t know about it, I can’t tell you, you’re just missing out. The Prednisone is a new one to me. I thought I had taken this before but I had no memory of it making me want to do weird things for an hour or two. Not only did this stuff keep me awake, but it made me want to paint my walls. I found myself fighting the urge to paint. Like some kind of weird obsession I just couldn’t leave the paint bucket alone for to long. I got the paint out, then had to sit, breathe and rest. I got the brush and rollers, had to sit, breathe and rest. Got the bags on the floor, had to sit, breathe and rest. You get the gist. Now painting at anytime is never fun, so why, when I already can’t breath, would I want to paint?!?! Paint?!?!!? Well turns out after speaking with a few more knowledgeable people about this, that it is a corticosteroid. Now this is a steroid but not the same type of anabolic steroid that has gotten such a bad rap. Corticosteroids are drugs that are closely related to cortisol which are hormones produced from the adrenal gland. Not everyone experiences the hyper effect of this drug, and some even have some very bad side effects. It is just to bad these are so dangerous to take for very long. I could use a peppy pill like this when I need to get some house work done.
Hopefully I will be back to myself before long. I am going crazy not being able to get out. I actually really want to get back to work, I want to see people again!!! Not to mention, I can’t let everybody get to comfortable with my absence, they might like it to much….