I gobble down 13 pills a day and have done for years and I hate every swallow. The medicines are tasked with producing certain outcomes within and without my body and I guess they do what they’re designed for.
I am still walking around, so something’s working.
But lately, my body is in full rebellion. I gag when I try to take the big ones and if I don’t take them immediately after eating but try to ingest them between meals on an empty stomach, I get a bad case of acid reflux. Consequently, I have developed a phobia about taking them so I talked about it to my pharmacist today.
“Well, we actually have something that will help you cope with all that,” she said, smiling. I started smiling too but stopped when she told me the remedy comes only in pill format.
At first, I thought she was joking. But then no.
I began to feel like I was in the nursery rhyme about the old lady who swallowed a fly, then a spider to catch the fly, a bird to catch the spider, a dog to catch the cat, etc. That didn’t end well at all for her, poor soul, as I recall.
I can’t remember whether or not I took the new pill to catch the others but I might have. I wonder if it affects your memory.
©2015 Jim Hagarty
