Slave To My Medication!

Someone sent this to me or either I found it on the Lupus Message Board or on the web...... However, I thought I would share it.

 

 

Slave To My Medication!
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Yet another person, with a medical degree, writes out a prescription, and hands it over to me.

I add it my growing pile, head to the local drugstore.
Where the man that fills em says, "I see your back for more."

As if I had a choice, decided on this frustration. I wear the chains of a disease, I'm a slave to my medication.

It gets so very confusing! "Do not crush or break."
Sorting them in to daily reminders, so I won't make a fatal mistake!

"Only take with water" it reads, as I pour Diet Pepsi into a glass.

 

"Do not operate heavy machinery," should be tattooed on my a**!

"May cause drowsiness or dizziness."

"May impair your ability to drive."

"Alcohol may intensify the effect."

Ain't I lucky to be alive?

"Take one tablet by mouth."
Gee, but I wanted to put it in my ear!

Good thing for those safety labels, or I'd be downing my meds with beer!

There's so many that I have, and in such pretty colors too! But is it safe for me to take, a pink one with a blue?

Maybe my surly attitude, is just yet another side effect. But I am sure that there must be, a pill to help it correct!

I guess its time for me to take, that pill for relaxation.
It always seems to be the answer, for I'm a slave to my medication!

©Cathy Faist 2002

Doctor Recommended
(Sequel to 'Slave To My Medication')
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While filling my 'daily reminder' box, I was suddenly hit by a revelation. 'I am a legal drug addict, from all the pills in my circulation!'

The thought just popped in my head and I had to laugh and smirk. My family thought that I'd 'lost it' ~~ that I'd completely gone berserk!

But it struck me really quite funny, that I would never go to jail. Thatif an officer were to question me,
I'd say, 'But I buy my drugs RETAIL!

My doctors said I could have em, sir, that they'd be really helpful to me. So officer, I can never be arrested!' (is how I'd cop my plea!)

Now, I would never sell em, for I need them to survive.
They are what fight my diseases and helps me stay alive!

I now take 14 pills a day.

 

Guess that's my lucky number.

I have pills to stop the pains and ones to help me slumber.

There's one to thin my blood

 

And one for inflammation.

I can tell you exactly what each one does, ya see, I'm a fountain of drug information!

At any given time, the numbers could increase. Doctors just keep prescribing me more to make sure that I don't decease!

So, my doctors may not realize, as they write out a new prescription...

 

That by giving me all those 'helpful pills'- they've caused my 'legal addiction!'

©Cathy Faist
She writes so many poems about her life with Lupus.