So this cough of mine has developed into a full block hacking fit. Any time I eat anything, inhale deeply, or blow my nose, I go into spasmy coughs. While this hurts my throat, that’s not the worst problem. These frequant violent fits make my diaphragm work extra hard, and it’s in lots of pain. I woke up this morning feeling like I had been punched in the stomach. My entire torso is stiff. Bleh.

Thing thing seems to be pretty damn contagious too. Hannah’s got it, of course, but it seems by my mother’s general acheyness and my little sisters coughing that they’ve caught the illness too. Fun all around.

I just baked some peanut butter cookies in order to give me a reason to stand up and be active. They should be tasty. I might bring some to school tomarrow.

So, I’ve been sick this last week, dealing with a sharp headache and nausea at first, and then moving on to a runny nose and phlemmy cough. The general achey and feveryness the whole way through didn’t help matters. I’m not sure whether the two stages were the same illness or not.

I treated the first of these symptoms by rest. Lots of rest. About 12 hours of sleep, two days in a row. It seemed to help, but when I arrived in school the next day, I was greeted with a drippy nose. No fun in a public school that has no money to buy kleenex. By the time I got off the bus, the cough had developed. I found a stash of Sucrets in the house, and proceeded to pop them in my mouth. I’ve had one going since yesterday morning.

Now look at the dosage information: “the usual dose is 1 lozenge slowly dissolved in the mouth. Doses may be repeated every 2 hours.” According to this, I’ve been radically overdosing on this stuff for 48 hours now. In the last 2 hours I’ve consumed over 12 individual lozenges. While I’ve experienced no “blurred vision, depression, dizziness, excitement, nervousness, tremors, slowed heartbeat, or low blood pressure.” as far as I know, I know this can’t be good for my body.

Even worse, the top hit for “Sucrets” on Google comes up with a lovely description of how to produce DXM from Sucrets. Yes, DXM: The drug suburban kids make from cough syrup when they can’t find anyone to by pot from. It’s a hallucinogin and has been compared to PCP and ketamine. DXM became well known when kids drink way to much cough syrup that contained both it and alcohol and ended up dying.

This scared the shit out of me.

Looking around, I learned that the particular type of Sucrets I was taking (The kind in a plastic box or tin, as opposed to those in a bag) did not contain DXM. This calmed me down, but this was a scary moment. I’ve stopped eating anymore of the lozenges, but I took way, way more than the recommended dose. I’ll stick to Hannah’s drug-free stuff from now on.

This is some blog meta wankery here. Probably inconsequential to you readers. I’ve added two new categories to ArcoLZ:

School: Here is everything that will teach you something. This is where tutorials, random facts, and academic essays go.

MLP: “Mindless Link Propagation.” You know: Memepool, FARK, Forch Anne. Everyone finds cool things they want to show other people. This is where that stuff goes. I’m not planning on doing this often, only when something really cool shows up. Otherwise it gets too close to filler.

I’m gonna go back through previous entries eventually and file them as needed, but that’s not a task in dire need of attention. This entry was kinda sparse, so have two pictures:

Headcrab:

Bunny: