"Flee! Flee! Run to the hills, run as fast as you can!" ....and so urged on by steely voiced Hollywood action heroes, the hapless cast of extras and minor equity members rush around aimlessly with much wailing and gnashing of teeth, all served up with a soupcon of over acting. Praise be for the Hollywood disaster epic, for where else would we feel comfortable with Bruce Willis and his ilk.
Not another space epic, I hear you cry. Almost, but not from out of this world, rather insert a space after the A in asteroid and hey presto you get a steroid impacts....
For the last six months I have been routinely taking the steroid Prednisone as one of the immuno suppressants necessary for protecting my donated kidney from rejection, however there are some noticeable side effects.....
Wikipoodle lists 26 major side effects which thankfully I seem to have avoided most of them, notably darkened stools:
Maintaining a constant train of th.........
Insomnia...zzzzz.....zzzzz.
and thankfully , a septic ulcer.
However there are plenty more and some have most definitely come home to roost, like a disoriented bantam about to fall off his perch.
There has been a most definite weight gain, notably around the stomach which can get enlarged by the steroid, but also by the increased appetite! The term "Munchies" now heralds a whole new sensation, however mindful one is of the after effects; still, we've just had Christmas so a little weight gain is not too unexpected. We have seen some facial puffiness, another effect of the dosage.
However the moost curious effect has been my body temperature. Rather like my old Renault Clio I have become adept at overheating. And just like my Gallic chariot of old, there is no sense of timing involved. Instead of stalling at the main roundabout on the A23 into Brighton at peak rush hour, my overheating can be observed in meetings, getting progressively more moist, soaked in the supermarket, hot and humid at the hairdressers, and wet just watching TV.
To the old adage "horses sweat, gentlemen perspire, ladies glow" can now be added "and Andrew drips." Not unlike a a leaky faucet really, albeit I tend not to make a drip drip sound, or go rusty.
And this long humid summer just brings out the moist in me. Just like my Clio..
Nicole,you are hot and sweaty? Yes Papa, though that is inappropriate, n'est pas?
Other than that I seem to have avoided the 25 other harbingers of discomfort that can manifest some patients, apart from the occasional emotional swings that come and go LIKE A FRIGGIN' WASP...all sweet and lovely in the warm haze of a beautiful summers evening. KILL IT KILL IT!
Oh well, enough over acting for today I think, back to Hollyweird where in breaking news we are being told that Bruce Willis is to reprise his role as Harry Stamper in a prequel to the asteroid disaster epic in which his character dies. In this film Stamper is recruited by the Federal Border Agnecy when it is discovered that the country faces imminent threat from a viscious group of invaders who launch a series of coordinated attacks on the USA from their base in South America.
Preliminary artwork has been leaked to the media....
That enough now stop it.......
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