Happy National Star Wars Day!
So awesome!
Anywhoo....this is also an important week besides the obvious above....
Malloy is learning the importance of medicine in her life.
I'm really not the kind of person to even take a tylenol unless I'm dying of the plague or the occasional debilitating menstrual cramps, so it doesn't surprise me that it look five years of pulling teeth to get me to get on attention deficit medication....best thing I've ever done...FYI....
Anyway, I'm still not cool with a ton of pills floating around in my system. It makes me paranoid because I don't know how I'll react, nor do I want to build up a such an amazing tolerance that when I'm old, I'll die of pneumonia or something similar because I need so much cough medicine that it could cure an Elephant's cold. We all know the one package of cold meds per person per store rule...and with Elephant size needs, there won't be enough stores in all of Atlanta to help me. I consider my current actions "preventative measures", just like when I try figure out the best ways to take out zombies from my house. The event will doubtfully happen, but it's stupid to not be prepared.
That being said....for the past month, maybe longer, I've been dealing with a constantly runny nose, bloody mucus being sneezed into my kleenex, my cheeks and forehead feeling like I had a brick sitting on them, and the worst, was horribly itchy, dry and then overly watery eyes. I had no idea what was going on. I was getting rest, barely smoking, bar hopping twice a week at the most....how is it possible that I'm doing worse when I'm doing so many good things for my health?
Well, turns out, kids, between switching so many different areas of the country in such a short time, I've been introducing myself to types of pollen that my nose have never encountered before....this then mixes in with the pollen in my normal surrounding and makes Super Allergy-ridden Malloy.
I've never had allergies before, however, I haven't exposed myself to this much travel in such a short time.... ex... Atl to LA to San Fran to Dallas to Atl to DC...yea...a fuckton of travel....all in APRIL!
To drive this whole blog home, after suffering over a month with what I thought was some punnishment for 4 beers and a cigarette, I figured out I might be having seasonal allergies. I went to WalMart tonight in DC after my shoot and picked up some Clariten. I've never taken allergy meds before, so "Concrete Head" (my childhood nickname, thanks!) fought tooth and nail to come up with other options before taking this route....in the end, the drugs won.
In just an hour after taking the medicine....my nose has stopped running and I can blink without feeling like my eyeballs are made of sandpaper.
IN ONE HOUR!
This was fixed in one hour and I lived like this for over a month. goddamn it.
So, point is, I'm still convinced that America is over medicated by themselves and physicians....but now I'm also convinced that I need to accept when things aren't going to fix themselves and take the damn doctor's orders for once.
