Thursday, May 15, 2008

You Don't Want to See Me When I'm Angry


So I reached my breaking point this morning at 8:17am. All in all I thought I had been handling things fairly well. I need a Filling Supreme!? Ok, that's cool. I can't breathe and need to go to the hospital? Alrighty, I can handle that too. I need to go on steroids for a week? Sure, what's one more thing?

Well guess what? Steroids screw with your emotions. They make you angry. And aggressive. And I had been warned, quite strongly, that this would be a side effect, but what could I do? It was doctor's orders.

The mood swings started two nights ago when during a phone call to Chris I think I interupted him about 27 times. And I raised my voice. And I may have ranted for awhile. I believe the hot topic that sparked my aggressive response was about a law firm's documentary.

Who the hell gets mad about a law firm's documentary?

Yesterday wasn't much better. I called my sister in the morning and started telling her about the phone call with Chris, the night before, and I got all angry again.

And you don't even want to know about how I handled the Cubs traffic after getting out of Bible Study last night.

But today is my last day on the 'roids. Of course I couldn't have any old regular day. At 8:17am this morning, I got a $50 parking ticket when I ran into my local Starbucks for a cup of coffee. I was away from my car for 2 minutes at most. $50 DOLLARS!

I was so angry I was in tears. And I believe I called almost everyone in my cell phone so I could rant about it.

Sweet Jesus...get me off these drugs already. And also, while I'm praying, enough with beating on my body. I can't afford much more of this. (literally)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

O.k. the good news is... you get back to sleep in a night or two... the mood swings disappear almost immediately... as well as the rapid heart rate and the urge to interrupt everyone.

I question though, your deicsion to add caffeine to this mix???

:)

anony mom

Yeti said...

SUCK! At least you can blame it on the drugs...I can't blame my mood swings - bitchy bursts - and fits of crying on anything.

karla said...

Besides the desire for chest hair, why are you on steroids this week? Soon you will have your body back. That will be nice. Hang in there!