Drugs
So the worst part of the three drug cocktail I'm taking to keep my back from making my life unbearable while I wait for a neurosurgeon to fix me is that A) they don't get me high B) they make me stupid - my vocabulary has gone to hell, and C) I have the attention span of a goldfish, which makes reading anything over one paragraph a challenge. That last item is an issue when one spends most of the day flat on one's back in bed.