Mar 07 2007
A Cold Caught Ms. Q
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Ms. Q has gone Totally Asian and drinking lots and lots of hot tea.
Fun. I’m sure you know what kind of fun.
I haven’t caught a cold like this in a while. I used to never get sick. I enter my 4th decade and WHAM! Sick-sick-sick.
What’s up with that?
I mean, am I over-the-hill and it’s now downhill all the way?
I hate taking drugs, even Tylenol. Yesterday I purchased some cold capsules. I knew better than to take them while I was at work. I took one after dinner and the Diphenhydramine coursed through all 100 pounds of me in record time.
My spirit was barely tethered to my corporal body. But my nose stopped running.
I do not like the jittery-sleepy-crazy feeling I get with cold medications. Too bad they don’t have better side effects like, oh, improving my writing. Then again, if I popped a cold capsule and wrote:
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
I’d either freak myself out or become an addict. Or maybe you only write that way if you’re addicted to opium.
Then again, I can’t drink wine while on cold medication so ixnay on cold medication addiction.
If my writing improves while popping cold capsules, don’t tell me.
Did you get carded by the pharmacist?
Nope. I think it’s the decongestants the psuedophe-something-something that you have to sign for and show ID and maybe cough up a lung for.
I have a hard time finding cold drugs I can take. Most are not for folks w/hypertension (high blood pressure). even if you’re on med’s for it. (daily stuff – boatloads of fun)
Even then, all the cold drugs tend to make me spacey. Though today I managed to end up that way just on the cold i’m currently experiencing. (No drugs needed this time.)
Fun part was falling asleep during the status meeting. I totally slept through a segment I normally comment on. Thank goodness for mute! So, no one had to hear me snore besides myself.
ack: I only took one cold-capsule. I had purchased a box of generics and the drugstore said “those are on sale 2 for 1″ and I said “I don’t need another box.” but the guy encouraged me to get it anyway. I now have 47 pills left.
I have been spacey sans drugs as well. My brain is all fuzzy from the cold. I felt like I could fall asleep at any moment! Good thing you were on a conference call for your meeting! I hope you’re on the mend. I am feeling better but that’s about it. I also lost my appetite what with the nausea so I may have dropped another pound. Whoopie. Might be the 99 pound blogger.
That reminds me of another time. I bought someone’s generic dayquil formula. It’s promised to not make me drowsy. Cool. I don’t want drowsy. I need to do stuff.
It skipped drowsy and went straight for asleep.
I’m now on the healthy concoctions with vitamins, minerals, and Chinese herbal combinations. plus i was recommended pineapple juice and cayanne pepper. (yup, the hot stuff.) definitely makes it an interesting experience drinking your pineapple juice now.
i suppose the best part is that it’s not making me spacey, but i’ve still got the cough. trying to shake that.