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Rose courtesy of a secret admirer[nmg]

Let me tell you a story..

Awful Painful Miserable Hurt

A few of you have been wondering where the ISSF posts have gone to. While I cannot account for the other writers on ISSF, I can certainly recount where I have been.

It can all be easily summed up into a few words: drunk, sick, painful.

As much misery as those three words might illustrate, I can guarantee that there's only a minimal amount of it involved.

Currently, I am suffering from massive coughing fits, rising nausea, and near-unmanagable acid reflux. I have taken more over the counter medication over the last few hours than I have in the last five years. None of it is working.

So, what does a sun god do?

To "forget" the awful horrible evil that reigns in my body, I drink. When I am drunk, so's the virus.

To "calm" the cough, I dry it up with massive amounts of nicotine in smoke form. The mucus gets mixed in with the smoke and, in theory, coagulates in my throat. It makes my throat think that it is dry and that there is nothing there to expell.

One side effect of copious amounts of cigarette smoke is the acid reflux. It hurts like blazes these days. I end up clutching my chest in the classic heart attack maneuver. So far, Pepcid Complete is doing wonders in keeping it down. However, I just discovered this wonderful chemical this morning. Before that, to "calm" the pain, I'd go to the bathroom and induce vomiting.

You can see the acid bubble in the toilet water as it rushes out of my mouth.

I put roasted chicken salad in my stomach this morning. Hopefully that stays there.

Posted by sagien at December 2, 2005 09:01 AM