Omo… it’s been a great day indeed. And I’m not gonna lie, I’ve had one of the weirdest weekends in a long while. Now that I’m thinking about it, I don’t even know how I was able to push through it and get some stuff done.
I guess I have a superpower which is stubbornness because that’s the only explanation I can come up with. If not, a lot of things would have gone wrong yesterday and it would be a different story altogether.
My Saturday began like any other. I started it by getting a job that I was told to deliver before 11 p.m. last night, and at the time, I believed I could get it done. That wasn’t the first time I was getting a gig like that, so it didn’t seem like a big deal for me.
But then… for a little background. I’ve been battling a serious cold and catarrh for well over two weeks now. I know that I should have never let it stay that long, but laziness just stopped me from getting treated. As long as it was not interfering with my job, then I didn’t mind the inconvenience. That was a big mistake.
It became worse and soon, I couldn’t even work well because I was always sneezing. Any small irritation and I can sneeze for up to twelve times in a row. By the time it’s over, I’ll be having a splitting headache. Only for it to come back ten minutes later.
This started disturbing my workflow, because every time I was sneezing, I had to stop what I was doing, and seeing as I’m a writer, it messed up my thinking. Making me take longer than usual. As I said, I have no excuse whatsoever for not treating this since. I go to school every day, so I could easily buy the drugs over the counter either on my way to or from school. But I never did that.
Instead, I bought TomTom because it cleared up my nose whenever it got stuck. In the past two weeks alone, I’ve licked more tomtom than I have in the past ten years. Sadly, the cure for cold and catarrh is not tomtom it only clears up the nasal passage. So it was only a temporary measure, meanwhile my condition was getting worse. It got so bad that sometimes I would wake up in the middle of the night just to sneeze.
When it started messing with my sleep, I realized that I had to do something before it got out of hand. So, I went to a pharmacy close to my place and told the lady there what I was going through. I wanted Procold, which is the drug I’ve been taking for cold and catarrh since my childhood days, but she didn’t have it. She told me instead, that she knew what she could give me.
From what she gave me, I could only recognize paracetamol and the white Vitamin C. The two others were pills I had never seen before. But then, what do I know? I’m only an engineer. When I got home, I ate and took them. And not up to thirty minutes later, I started feeling different. It seemed my head was heavier and I was hit with this massive wave of sleep.
But I couldn’t sleep. No matter how hard I tried. I tried to work on the job, but just fifteen minutes into staring at my screen my eyes began to water and I was nodding off. I tried going back to sleep again. Still the same thing! I even bathed in cold water, something I should have avoided like a plague. I did it to bring my brain back alive, but the moment I sat down in front of my laptop, everything I wanted to write flew out of my head and all I could think of was sleep.
It’s still a wonder I was able to get other things done yesterday. After all, I managed to host the hangout and run some other duties as well. But for actually writing, it was just so hard. And the annoying thing is that I kept believing I had it under control. It felt like something that would wear off in an hour or two. But as time wore on, I still felt the same way.
By this time though, I had already started working on the job given to me. I was having this back-and-forth thing so that the moment my eyes filled up, I shut down my computer and went to rest for about thirty minutes. Then I returned again…
I wasn’t able to meet up the deadline I was given and that hurt me big time. I’m the kind of person who prides myself on keeping my word, no matter how inconvenient it’ll be to me. But I made up for it when I woke up today by finishing what was left from yesterday and making sure I submitted it in record time.
I feel better today. Last night, even around midnight, I was so uncomfortable that I couldn’t sit still or lie down. I was just messed up. But somehow, I managed to sleep and the moment my eyes closed, it didn’t open again until this morning. And lessons have been learned.
From now on, I’ll be more careful in buying over-the-counter drugs. Also, I’ll never take any pharmacy that sells things besides drugs seriously. How will you be a pharmacist and you’ll be selling bread, biscuits, and buns? Not for me!
And for all the suffering the stupid drugs put me through, I still have the cold and catarrh. But I’m not trying any other over-the-counter measures. I’ll be going to school tomorrow, which is Monday, to see the doctor in Medicals. They’ll have something more trustworthy.
I’m the kind of person who tries my very best to take good care of myself, and once I do something that even looks like it’ll put it in danger, I MOVE!!! Thankfully, everything that happened yesterday ended on a good note. I know I disappointed some people for failing to turn up, but I disappointed myself as well. I’m sorry for that. It won’t happen again. At least I hope not.
So, my dear friends, let’s be extremely careful what we put into our mouths. Not just food, but the drugs we take as well. We need to be sure that they are prescribed by doctors or actual pharmacists who know what they’re doing. Not the ones that’ll give you fake sleeping medicine to cure cold and catarrh. So you won’t be able to sleep and neither will you be able to stay awake.
Last last… na God go save all of us!
