The Benefits of Illness
So my daughter gave me some kind of horrible hacking cough which I suffered with for three days. By day four the lack of sleep and inability to go longer than 10 minutes without coughing drove me to actually Go To the Doctor.
I love that I pay hundreds of dollars a year for health insurance and yet when I get sick I somehow end up paying another $70. $40 for the prescription cough medicine alone.
However, my friends, I have discovered that it is way worth it. According to the little page of information that comes with the prescription this cough medicine doesn’t actually do anything medically to cure the cough, no no, this cough medicine flags some kind of receptor in the BRAIN which has something to do with coughing so that you should no longer feel the urge to cough.
That and it gives you all of the floaty, goofy feelings of being medicated without the nasty undercurrent that one generally gets with over the counter cold medicine. So even though I’m still coughing every now and then, people, I am feeling F I N E.
God Bless America.
