Abigail M. Schilling

One of my many chronic disease-controlling medications is the most high-matienance thing in my life. For real.

See, (and this post is about to rival Heather's OC post in un-keep-up-able-ness), it has to be taken in the morning. Or to be more clear, is has to be taken closer to when I have awoken than when I am going to sleep. So I have to know when I am going to sleep.

And! After I'm sure I'm within the bounds of that first rule (and it's the first rule because it has the biggest label), I have to take it at least an hour before I eat anything. Or! If I've already ruined that, I have to take it three hours after I've eaten (and still one hour before).

Here's an example of how I could have everything go really simply:

7:00 awake, take medication
8:00 may eat

Here's an example of what usually happens:

7:00 awake, read the internet
7:15 have some coffee, wonder if coffee counts as food?
7:30 figure what the hell and have some banana bread
10:30 take medication
11:30 may eat again

See how it starts to get complicated? In the latter scenario I have to take the medication to work with me and then I have to remember to take it at 10:30. If I forget and don't take it til 11:00 then I can't eat til 12. If I don't take it til 11:30 then I can't eat til 12:30. It gets really! fun! when I have meetings or special lunches or forget to bring it to work and try to figure if I can go home to get it and when and will it still be closer to sunrise and when will I eat?

Obviously I never took this medication in college because I was more concerned with what I was going to be doing instead of homework than to figure out what time I would be eating or sleeping. And I think I can safely blame all college mistakes on the fact that I didn't take the medication. Hell, I'll blame the cavities too. And my lack of income.

In short, I whine a lot. I take drugs. I like coffee. And I like to eat and sleep. Whenever I want. The End.