病気で、健康に (In Sickness and In Health)
Being from America and all, I had become accustomed to being prescribed strong ass medication as the solution to every medical problem known to man. God a cold? Why take a children's Tylenol when you could take the 1billion milligram extra strength shit instead?! Maybe it's all a conspiracy between corrupt insurance companies, even more corrupt pharmaceutical companies, and slightly less corrupt doctors looking to make zillions of dollars while pumping us full of pills with too many consonants in the damn names, but who cares? That shit works.
I had also become accustomed to plentiful sick days. Medication is usually the last route I like to go as I'd rather chillax in my home watching Sponge Bob reruns and fighting disease the old fashioned way. Who wants their employees coming into work spreading infected mucous all over the place? Who gets off on the sound of snot constantly being sniffed up ones nostrils in an attempt to avoid spreading said mucous everywhere? Who loves coming in to work sick to show off their fashionable sick person mask they got from Disney Land a few months ago? Japanese, people, that's who...but you and I already knew that.
Knowing that taking off sick isn't really an option lest you want your co-workers to hate you forever, you'd think the medicine here would be strong to keep your ass from nearly dying while you sit at your desk. That isn't the case at all...not even close. I wonder sometimes why medicine is even prescribed here. It doesn't seem to actually do anything. Or, if it does, it sure takes its sweet time to kick in (several weeks later). What the dilly yo? Is Japan tryin to tell me that I'm a punk ass baby that needs to be quiet and deal? Has all the government money gone towards building creepy female robots? Are people scared they'll become pill poppin maniacs? Or maybe...just maybe...the actual reason is because taking medicine would get in teh way of beer drinking...and people have their priorities straight.
Whatever the reason is, unless people want me to continue dripping hanamizu (literally nose water) everywhere and looking like a strung out version of my normal self, they better gimee some stronger medicine right now. ACHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!