Life Decision

OK, I've come to a major life decision in the past week or so.

I am just NOT cut out to be a drug addict. Not going to happen. :-)

Some of you may be wondering where this sudden epiphany came from. It's not like I ever really considered that as a career path; the skanky lifestyle and legal implications have always pretty effectivly scared me off. But I now have empirical evidence that I am just NOT cut out for that role.

I've been on the world's LONGEST prednisone taper for the past week; I'll be on prednisone for over five weeks total. To put that in perspective, the longest I've ever been on it before is about two weeks. Kathy's been on it, for about 10 days.

Now, I've done prednisone before, and every time I have a different reaction to it. Sadly, this instance's reaction is sleeplessness. From Wednesday through Sunday night, I got only one night in where I slept more than about 3 hours (Saturday). All the others I was up by about 2 in the morning, and did no more than doze the rest of the night.

The weird thing, though, is I am NOT sleepy. I go through the next day nearly manic, and I'm definitely even more jittery than I normally am (at breakfast Sunday morning my leg was jiggling non-stop, about a million miles an hour).

And this totally bugs me; it's driving me absolutely crazy. I can deal with being tired AND sleepy, but being tired and not sleepy is just wrong. Can't hack it.

So, I've decided that the junkie lifestyle, or at least one that involves jitter-inducing drugs, is NOT for me.

I know y'all are all relieved!