Stemitil for breakfast

There’s nothing that makes you feel your sickness quite as much as like reaching for the medicine cabinet before your morning coffee.

Whether it’s pain medication or anti-nausea medication or whatever your evil is, getting hit with that overwhelming feeling that needs relief NOW is a sucky way to start the day. For me, it’s Stemitil, my first line antiemetic that I take far too often as soon as I wake up.

And when you start each day reaching for drugs, you start each day in a foul mood. Depression sets in very quickly. You shut out the world before each day begins and are left alone with the sickness that consumes your life.

I don’t know the solution to this. There is no advice here. Just an acknowledgment that it’s awful, and a wish it was different.

For everyone who needed meds for breakfast today, I hope you don’t tomorrow.