The Walking Dead

No, the title of this post isn't about the TV series but rather about my last 2 weeks.  I've been absent for awhile because I've been battling flu and pneumonia.  Not only do these illnesses make you feel like you are walking dead, but the meds to treat them can make you feel even worse...at least in my case.  I hate taking meds, I seem to be a poster child for the common side effects and tend to have adverse effects from some.  For example, isn't the good cough syrup supposed to make you sleep?  Well, I don't sleep.  I tend to float. Yes, I lie there and feel like I'm floating.  The song "I believe I Can Fly" tends to take on a whole new meaning.  And isn't there rumor that "Puff the Magic Dragon" was written when the writer was high or something to that effect.  I'm fully convinced he could have very well been taking cough syrup.  The effects of that stuff can very well make you believe you have a magic dragon for a friend and that you just may live next a sea as the waves of nausea and dizziness are prominent making you feel sea sick. 

And then there's the steroids.  Oh, how I loathe this stuff.  The following list is the multiple personalities steroids turn me into:

The many multiple personalities of taking steroids:

1. I want to go all Incredible Hulk on anything or anyone who aggravates me.

2.  I want to move to the frozen tundra and then as soon as I get there I want to move to the desert due to frequent body temp changes.

3. I crave a whole buffet to myself and could return with the all you can eat option til it's void of any food....

4. The one food I crave that tastes the best of all foods in the world, suddenly tastes like dirt bc it alters my taste.

5. Things that would normally make me cry can suddenly bring about inappropriate laughing.

6. Things that would normally make me smile with joy suddenly bring me to a puddle of tears.

7. Things that would normally have no effect on my emotions at all suddenly have me laughing and crying at the same time.

8.  My heart feels as if it's been replaced with a hummingbird who just drank a Red Bull.

9. If my emotions had a face, it would be in one of those action pics of the most twisted, longest, loopiest roller coaster.

10.  My head feels like it could be stunt double in The Exorcist.

11.  I become the poster child for most disorders in the DSM IV.

12.  I have sudden bursts of energy to the point I feel I can fly off a cliff but as soon as I jump, I would hit a brick fall bc the energy that was just there to make me fly, is just as quickly gone.

 

I've also never had pneumonia.  My best description I can come up with is that the heaviness feels like pachyderm sitting on your chest roasting marshmallows bc it burns when you cough.  And then there times I felt like I had a porcupine stuck in my throat. 

 

Yes, I was whiney and a wimp.  But this past week, I think I have finally completely recovered with the occasional coughing spasm that tends to hang on with this mess. 

 

Stay sanitized my friends...this stuff is brutal and it knows not that this is the worst time of the year deal with.