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[apiphile]

STILL SICK, it's been nearly two weeks now, FUCK OFF

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[wolfy_writing]

Can you see a doctor about the sickness? It doesn't sound good. (Although my last two visits to a doctor for a lingering cough were "It's only a cold" and "It's only a cold but the doctor will give out syrup of Vicodin, which turns out to be utterly horrible".)

[apiphile]

I think a fortnight is still within the bounds of regression to the mean or whatever. And it's true I'm not as big a wreck as I was.

... send me the syrup of vicodin

[wolfy_writing]

Yeah, upper respiratory viruses can drag on that long.

It was four years and three international moves ago. I don't still have it.

[apiphile]

Goddamnit now I have to DEAL with my problems instead of being HIGH?

[wolfy_writing]

I'm pretty sure vicodin only makes things worse. (One dose before bed was supposed to ease the pain in my chest, suppress coughing, and make me fall asleep. None of that happened, and a single dose, even after I tried cutting down to half as much as the recommended smallest dose, would leave me groggy and stupid for twenty-four hours. Not feeling high, just groggy and confused by everything.)

[apiphile]

That's already my experience of night work, that's no good. Where's my DAMN MORPHINE

[wolfy_writing]

See, this is where I wish you and I could trade. Because I have the inconvenient problem of doctors trying to give me overly-strong medication when I'm all "I really just want confirmation that I don't have anything serious, after the time when my tiny low-grade fever and general tiredness turned out to be strep". Which sucks, because I react horribly to all medication. But you could use it.

[apiphile]

We need some kind of black market, I will give you the platitudes and you will give me the HARD DRUGS

[wolfy_writing]

You can have that one nurse from Fiji who kept insisting I needed coedine for the pain of dengue fever even though I was not really in pain and turned out not to have dengue.

[apiphile]

I'm down with that. Mostly I am repeatedly fantasising about being back in hospital on a morphine drip with nothing to do but listen to the Youtube videos of the sea and lie in bed, despite the fact that I couldn't get up and pee and was attached to tubes and bottles of my own blood.

I SUSPECT I MAY BE TIRED.

[wolfy_writing]

That might just be a hint that you could use some rest, yes!