possible side effects

Tell your doctor immediately if any of these unlikely but serious side effects occur: black stools, bone pain (fracture), “coffee-ground” vomit, easy bruising/bleeding, heartburn, increased thirst and urination, irregular/fast/pounding/heartbeat, menstrual period changes, mental/mood changes, muscle weakness/pain, persistent weight gain, puffy face, seizures, signs of infection(e.g. fever, persistent sore throat), slow healing wounds, stomach/abdominal pain, swelling of feet/ankles, thinning skin, trouble breathing, unusual hair growth, unusual skin growth, vision changes.

A small excerpt of the side effects listed for the meds that my doc gave me yesterday to reduce the inflammation brought on by this bronchial bout. Antibiotics aren’t an option, because I’m already allergic to two strains. Meaning there’s one major strain left to try in the event of a life-threatening emergency. Translation: I should probably move to warmer climes if I want to live past 40. And all that traveling in Central America? Probably okay, so long as I don’t eat any fresh fruits or vegetables in those countries ever again.

baby needs a new pair of shoes

Shoes turn you into someone else. You can’t be a dominatrix in sneakers. If you are in a high heel, you are in pain, and you are going to make someone pay for it.

Natacha Moro, maker of custom fetish boots for the House of Harlot in London. From the September 2006 issue of National Geographic that I picked up in my doctor’s office while I was waiting to find out if I have *$#&@! Pneumonia again.[1]

Baby doesn’t need Pneumonia. What baby needs is a new pair of shoes.


The article goes on to quote William A. Rossi, podiatrist and author of The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe:

The foot is an erotic organ and the shoe is its sexual covering. The shoe is the erotic foot’s pimp and procurer.

Like I said.


[1] Good news: it’s only viral. Now to bed. To dream of footwear.

ginger lemon tea

Ginger
Originally uploaded by JimReeves.

• one big nub of ginger root
• one whole lemon (meyer is best)
• hot water
• honey

skin the ginger root with the edge of a spoon.

grate coursely.

toss into one of those plunger pots.

squeeze the lemon -- if it's organic toss the whole thing in.

add hot water and steep.

plunge.

pour off a cup and toss in a dollop of honey.

drink down and pray that it will banish the demons who have stolen your voice and replaced it with a horrible raspy cough.