Life of a Couch Sloth

Cephalexin, Valtrex, Vicodin, and Phenergan are kept in an rusty-orange purse beside the couch. Beside that is a spiral notebook folded open to a page with a chart showing the hours of the day, days of the week, and which drugs to take when. Three of my drugs cause marked drowsiness. They also need to be taken with copious amounts of food. This I learned yesterday when I did not eat enough food and proceeded to throw up twice. As advised by my immediate care doctor from Monday, I went to the ER where they gave me a shot of Phenergan in my arm and made me very, very, very, very dopey. So I sleep on the couch, day and night. I eat significant meals before each dose. Cephalexin is taken four times a day and Valtrex is taken three times a day. That makes for six doses requiring six meals. Then I get sleepy, so I sleep all day, increased by the notorious fun of Vicodin (which replaced the Tylenol with Codeine per ER doctor's instructions). Eat, sleep and be dopey.

Oh yeah, if you missed the previous post, I have shingles. Shingles, Shingles, Bobingles, Mi, My, Mo, Mingles, Fi, Fy, Fo Fingles. Thats Shingles!