I got an e-mail the other night that I needed to meet the Fern Team Saturday morning to help clean the fern beds at the botanical garden. I had just started Prednisone , had no sleep, coughing, hyper, not in any mood to go dig another bed......but still holding on to my sarcastic sense of humor. So I can blame this on the meds when I replied:
Hey Christie, I wrote this day before yesterday in the wee hours, but hadn’t felt like sending it. I think I’m better now (my sense of humor is returning), but not sure if I’ll feel like digging and getting sweaty Saturday.
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I’ve read your e-mail
And I'm growing pale
I know you'll think I'm lying
But over two weeks I’ve been crying.
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Grandson's guitar teacher needed direction
His flower beds needed some correction
He said “Plants,... he had not any”
Daughter said her mom had way too many
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And so off we two went to plant
Time during half hour lesson...was scant
So we stayed and we played
Oh the price that we paid
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Such a good thing we thought we had done
Till instructor... we see in a run
What he said filled us with dread
We were digging the wrong bed
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We were queasy and feeling sick
Told him bye, we had to leave quick
You see, to plant all the things that we took
Poison ivy we did overlook
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In 5 o'clock traffic...no tarry
The itching was making us wary
A pharmacist said, “Don't you worry,
Big bucks will fix you in a hurry”
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So away with our magic elixir
He swore to daughter would fix her
We scrubbed and we washed
Shoes, gloves, and jeans we just tossed
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We dodged a bullet so to speak
Checked arms and ankles a week
But next week my forehead was bubbles
Red and itchy for all of my troubles
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Thank heaven, nothing on daughter
Now my lids are puffy with water
Guess brushed PI on face with glove
And now I'm not feeling the love
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Off quickly to “Doc in a Box”
Head looks like chicken pox
Get Z-Pac, codeine, cortisone cream
Can't I get out of this %&*$#% dream...?
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Doc finds I also have chest infection
And says with mustered affection,
“In a few days you'll be fine!”
I hear, “You need glass of wine.”
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How I've learned to hate “leaves of three”
Yesterday, Poison Ivy’s all over me
Around my trunk, behind my knees,
Under arms, ankles, calves, Oh pleez!
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Back to doc for her 'big gun” med
I first refused, side effects I dread
Prednisone ordered to make me well
Will also keep me awake...Oh Hell!
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But wait, she adds inhaler for post nasal drip
“Hey, I don't think I have that.” I quip
“It'll help with your cough, and make you sleepy.”
My dream, my nightmare is getting creepy
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Today's first day for steroid med
I'm hyper, wild, can't go to bed
PI is still here, but hey I don't care
I think my palms are now growing hair
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Sandi
