I Finally Got Some Drugs! Well, it is 7:30 PM here and I just got done playing one-and-a-half hours of Spades. I thought I would drop a line to you but I figured I’d wait to see if anything more exciting happens tomorrow.

I did finally get my medicines today at 4:00 PM, right after dinner. So, I am walking back up to my cell balancing four pieces of white bread, my trusty water cup with lid, and a bag of drugs. Wearing my Bozo size 14’s, I trip up the stairs and bang my shin on the edge of the step. Ouch!

So, I get back to the room and I open up the drug bag and I have the following:
Forty-two 500 mg Amoxicillin, three times a day
One Flonase nasal spray 120 sprays
120 Pseudoephedrine HCI 30 mg, two tablets twice a day.

It is feast or famine. So far I have taken two of the antibiotic and one dose (two pills) of the Pseudoephedrine decongestant. By comparison, the Claritin contains 240 mg Pseudoephedrine. Even at the prescribed dose, the 30 mg tablets would be 120 mg vs. Claritin’s 240. I did not like the Claritin due to the fact it made me jumpy and seemed to make sleeping harder. So, in my mind less drugs is usually better than more. Unless, of course, you are trying to put yourself out.

The Flonase says not to use if you have an enlarged prostate. Great, let me check. Hmm, I am not sure. How does one know whether it is enlarged or not? I know, but seriously, I am passing on taking it. How something that is supposed to work all the way up in my nasal area affects something way down in the nether regions, I certainly do not understand. So, I’d rather go without.

I know the antibiotics should work. The last time I got antibiotics from Fedville, they only have me 500 mg two times a day for ten days. So, this current amount of forty-two pills should hopefully knock all those nasty little buggers to kingdom come.

I have been lucky that it did not turn into an upper respiratory infection, which is what usually happens to me. So I guess my immune system is doing some good. I am amazed at the "DUH" feeling I have. I have had basically too much carbs and fat today and very little protein, and my brain is like just functioning on half power maybe. So, I am going to hope for better food tomorrow.

The drugs were the only good thing that happened today. No letter from Mom and Dad. No New York Times. No other mail. No packages. Maybe Mom and Dad just sent the food like I told them.

The law library still cannot find the two cases from my denial or the Supreme Court case, and they said no way could they get me access to a typewriter. How the hell I am supposed to present a readable appeal is beyond me. I have no Jailhouse Lawyers manual either.

So, today goes down in the net loss column, but tomorrow is another day.

It is Tuesday and my reservation is in for a razor, so at least I can look forward to my shave and shower. Luckily I still have two and a half books to read.

Oh, yeah, I did manage to stay awake for the 5:15 PM count, too! Later.  ¶ 11:27 AM