it was a saturday...and because mary works saturday...
it was just me and the dog...
well...theo decided he needed to go out..
i wasn't dressed yet...
so i threw on some jeans, a shirt, hat and shoes and i took him out...
we were were only out for a few minutes when i saw this boy walking a dog...
the dog looked like sort of a cross between a pit bull and a short haired lab...for the sake of this...we'll just call it a plab...
anyway...
they boy looked to be about 10 years old..
he and the plab were about a half a block away when the plab saw us...
immediately he started our way..
dragging the boy behind him..
when he was about 30 yards from us...
theo noticed the dog...
theo turned and barked....
and then realized....his bark had absolutely no effect on the plab...
so theo did the only thing a self respecting small ball of fur could do..
he ran...
but he couldn't run far...because of course he was on a leash...
while theo turned to run...
the plab decided to run even faster...
it was then ...
the boy let go of the leash he had the plab on...
i reached down to pick theo up...
when i got him up...
the plab was on us...
i turned away to keep him from biting theo..
and of course...
instead the plab bit me..in the finger...
before the dog could come at us again...
i kicked at it..
and it backed down..
luckily...the mother of the boy who was walking the dog was not far away...
so she called the dog...
and the dog went to her...
the short story is..
the dog wasn't even the boys ... he was walking it for a neighbor..
so me...
i ended up in urgent care...
i didn't need stitches...
but of course i got a tetnus shot..
and medication that made me sick for a week...
that was a week ago...
my finger has almost healed..
and i'm finished with the medication...
the plab is still on quarantine for another 3 days..
i'm pretty sure i've not got rabies...
which is a good thing..
life is weird..
i mean if i hadn't protected theo.....the plab would have probably killed him...
and if mary had been walking theo...
who knows how she might have been hurt...
so it's actually a good thing it was me...
but here's the thing...
this really has everything to do with this ...
and nothing at all..
i've thought about this before...
but this made it so much more clear..
sometimes when you get medication..
you actually stop and think...
ok...is what will happen to me worse than the side effects of taking this medication...
i mean what i was taking...is a form of amoxicillin...specific to prevent or treat bacteria or infection casued by dog bites or other similar things....
the possible side effects include... or problems associated with this drugs can be...
diaherra, white patches in the mouth or on the tongue, stomach pain, gas, loss of appetite, dark urine, clay looking stools...and the list goes on...
now it's clear to me..
that rather than die of infection...i'm willing to risk these things..
but..
it got me thinking
what other drugs do people take...
that have side effects...that well...
are a delicate balance between curing what ails them and suffering through something nearly as bad...
take ambien...for instance..people take it for insomnia..
so..if you take ambien...it can cause drowsiness...fair enough because what else would you expect from a drug that you take for insomina...
but it also can cause memory loss...
people taking ambien...have claimed to not remember...driving, having sex....eating, making phone calls...
so in other words...you were really awake...but..you just don't remember what you did...so you think you were asleep...
which brings us to viagra...
i know what you might be thinking...but no..i don't need or take viagra...still i looked up the side effects and they are...
dizziness, drowsiness, fainting, blurred vision...
these things can happen befor sex...not after...pay attention here..
the risk of heart attack or stroke...so bascially you could die during sex...which if you ask most guys they will tell you isn't entirely a bad way to go...
and viagra can cause you to see things in a shade of blue similar to the color of the pill itself...
so basically you take viagra to be able to have sex..
there is a possiblity you could pass out before sex..or stroke out and die during...
isn't medical science wonderful?...
today's music...
garfunkel and oates...(kate micucci and riki linhome)
kind of quirky...but catchy...
rather than share the lyrics...and the title
this is one it's better to hear...
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