I just ripped a really rancid fart and I thought I’d write a post about it.

I’ve been sick. Still a bit sick, but much less than I’ve been, fortunately. But man I am just not used to this. Typically, my immune system plus an overload of orange juice kicks anything’s ass, but not in this case. I first got sick around 18 days ago and my body just wasn’t getting past it. So, finally I gave in and went to a doctor yesterday — only partly being stubborn, but partly because of Events — got some meds, and starting to feel better, at last.

Fun detail, though — doc said my bronchitis could be caused by two different types of bacteria: one that tends to affect younger people, and one that tends to affect older people. He said each has its own treatment, and he gave me the old guy meds. I’m kinda of split mind on whether I want them to work.

So I got the prescription and took it to the drugstore, and they had to look a bit for my account details — because apparently I haven’t been there in the last five years, and they had old address and phone number info that I had to dig around in my brain for. (Seriously, I just don’t need doctors much.) Got those, taking them, hopefully getting better.

But it reminds me why I don’t like taking medicine. It’s just the way it changes you. That kind of powerful chemistry gets in your body and it has to knock some shit over. Like, I took a nap earlier and suddenly woke up with serious stomach acid. I tend towards acidity, but if the inside of my stomach was painted, it’d be peeling. And I feel like my heart flutters a bit every now and then.

Also, the rancid farting.

I have a pretty good sense of how my body acts, and feels, and is. So when it’s off like this, it makes me uncomfortable. Probably a good thing that I haven’t done drugs, because I’d be endlessly paranoid about the aftereffects. Ach! But right now I’d probably take the uncertainty and weirdness if this goddamn cough would finally go away.

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