Wednesday, March 5, 2008

A Herpes Simplex Ten Start to My Day

A cat woke me gently last night, rustling in a paper bag.... letting me know she wanted to be let out into the garage where her food is. Never mind that there is a kitty door to let her come/go as she pleases. It feels much better when Momma gets up at 3am to let you out. Kinda like when someone makes you a sandwich. It's just BETTER.

Usually when I wake up in the middle of the night, I make a practice of looking in at my LM's. BLM was snoozing soundly, looking like an angel. LLM, however, was stirring around and saw me peek at her. She sat up and held her little arms up and I picked her up out of her crib. We sat on the extra bed in her room and we rocked and loved. I put her back in her crib a few minutes later. Wrong. Answer. She wailed for at least 10 minutes. I got back into bed and wondered if she was doing something in retaliation. Was she eating a shoe (that was in her reach on her dresser)? Was she terrorizing her baby doll that was in bed with her? It took forever to go back to sleep but I finally did. I have not checked in on her yet. It is just after 6am and I'm enjoying the peace before I start getting ready for the day.

A nice Herpes Simplex Ten (read: fever blister) has arrived on my lip this morning. Time to break out the Valtrex. I wonder if that will make me feel like horseback riding or mountian hiking with my partner? Seems like the commercials for that stuff always make it look like that, you know?

I have decided to revolt against my doctor's orders. She called in a new Rx dose of Lexapro for me (20mg instead of 10mg). I'm not doing it. That dosage makes me starve to death and I'm not doing it. I'm just not. I split all of my pills in half. I am SUCH a BAD ASS. Do you hear me? I am BAD. ASS.

4 comments:

Jessica said...

Ugh I hear you on starving on the Lexapro. I gained so much weight on that drug :(. I ended up switching to Cymbalta and I liked it so much better. I had to go off while I was preggo and haven't started back on anything yet. Good luck with the herpes though! :D

Anonymous said...

Holly, I've been reading your blog for a while and decided to out myself! you freaking crack me the hell up and I wish we lived in the same town cause I know we would be raging BFF's, well my other BFF is Klonopin....Just wanted to send a message so I don't feel wierd stalking your blog.....HA HA! By the way, I'm CottonHeadedNinnyMuggins from babycenter!

Rebecca said...

Have you tried 15 mg? Split the difference?

I'm back on it...just 5 mg. Still desperately trying to lose the 15 I gained on it (none of which came off during the 6 weeks I was without it.)

Mamalicious said...

CottonHeadedNinnyMuggins- do not lurk. I need you to be my BFF!

Where do you live in the great state of TX (or do I just assume that you live there from your BBC Avatar?)

Cuz I'm close to Texass, especially in the summer on lake weekends.