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A Waste of a Good Narcotic

By Anonymous

So it turns out that codeine keeps me awake- loopy, but very much AWAKE. And it kept me that way, consumed with half-lucid dreams of choking on my own throat, until about 2 a.m. when I decided the medicine had sufficiently worked its way through my system to allow me to swallow a handful of Ibuprofen for the throat swelling and a swig of nighttime cold medicine to knock me out. I woke up 7 hours later, shocked to find Landon and JP gone for the day without my noticing and feeling not worse (though not better) than the day before.

I worked from home, which mostly involved me staring at the wall or out the window. No one was expecting much from me, in fact I was ordered not to work by the senior associate until I begged her to give me something to do. She told me that's the first sign of a workaholic- not knowing what to do with downtime. But when I'm feeling good I love and savor my down time- there's errands and shopping to be done, a house to organize, a Landon to play with, a JP to bother, etc. But when I'm feeling like crap and can't go out, can't nap, and hate everything on daytime TV, I might as well work, though I did thumb my way through Voyager for the 15th time.

I'm planning to repeat the Ibuprofen + nighttime cough medicine dosing and tuck myself in bed in a few minutes. I'm hoping to wake up tomorrow without my first thought centering around how much it hurts to swallow. And then I'm going to work and being productive because oh my goodness do we have a lot to do before our hearing next week.

Full post as published by Lag Liv on April 22, 2009 (boomark / email).