Friday, May 11, 2007

The Echinertia Excuse

Wow... has it really been two months since I last posted at Jumbled Encephalon Noodle Salad? Well, please allow me to explain.

When last I posted (7 March 2007), cold and flu season was still in full bloom. Now, anyone who knows me knows that I do not like taking medication, unless I absolutely have to. However, I was also trying to stave off coming down with a nasty bug as spring approached. So... I strolled down to this local pharmacy to pick up an herbal suppliment to bolster my immune system.

Evidently the pharmacist was new. He looked like he was about twelve and, while I thought he might be albino, come to find out he was just really blonde and had a milk moustache. He thought he was handing me a bottle of echinacea.

He gave a bottle of echinertia instead.

I ended up taking echinertia. For two straight weeks, I kept popping these echinertia suppliments and slowing down more and more all the time. Quite frankly, by the time I realized the pharmacist's error, I had taken so much echinertia that I'm just now getting back to normal speed.

The good news is I didn't catch a cold. The bad news: it still takes me about ten minutes to walk to the bathroom in the middle of the night. And that's a problem!

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