My New Friend For the Week!

I haven't taken this medicine for about three years. It made me jittery too often so I stopped. But this last weekend I had a three-day headache that I couldn't shake and I'd had some dental work done that was still painful. And I knew I had a final coming up this week that I HAD to study for. My mom is in town and finally had me take a couple excedrine Sunday morning. Well, it made me feel so good that I've taken it every day since.

I haven't been able to sleep well this week; I've had major brain overload between life decisions and the nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular and lymphoid systems. So I've made a new friend this week. I call my new friend she, because woment relate with women, obviously, and she

understands me.

In the mornings I say "Excedrine, I didn't sleep well last night. I went down to the couch and only slept five hours. And I need to study all day today. Will you please help me?" And she gives me energy to focus and concentrate.

I say "Excedrine, my tooth still hurts from the dentist last week, but I won't have time to call and have them look at it until Thursday afternoon. Will you please help me?" And she makes my tooth stop hurting so I can focus on my test coming up.

I say "Excedrine, I didn't sleep well again and I am freaking out inside that I will be too tired to focus and remember the things I am studying." She says, "Just take two of me, and I will be happy to make calm you down by making you feel awake and alert, and you won't have to freak out anymore about forgetting what you are studying."

Yes, I love my new friend. The only thing is that I wonder if she isn't telling me is that she might be part of the reason I can't sleep well at night. I wonder if she too is so happy with our new friendship that she sticks around in my skeletal muscles and blood vessels as long as possible, keeping me awake so that I won't miss any of our time together.

But as much as I would like her to perform her eight hours of work during the day and punch out as soon as I come home, I cannot confront her with that right now. I need her too much and don't want to disrupt her fabulous work this week. I'm hoping that when my final is complete tomorrow morning that I will be able to take her out of her comfy vacation home in my back pack and return her to every-day life in the medicine cabinet.

But for today, as I get up to start getting ready, I say, "Good morning, sweet friend. Thank you for being a part of my life today. Please, make yourself at home in my bloodstream."