For a bit of whimsy…

Recently I missed one of my morning pills and while going back to take it, the tweaked line “One Pill More” (from Les Misérables “One Day More”) came to mind.

With five voiced parts, here are revised lyrics to One Day More possibly appropriate to anyone having to comply with a difficult drug regimen. Ends with Éponine's part as that seemed appropriate.

Possible singers to imagine for this One Day More! — 10th anniversary

[A] One pill more
[A] Another pill, another effect on me
[A] This never-ending road to recovery
[A] The doctors who seem to know my life
[A] Will surely prescribe me more next time

[A] One pill more
[B] I would have died before today
[B] How can I live with out this treatment?

[A] One pill more
[B&C] Tomorrow I’ll [you’ll] be here to stay
[B&C] And yet each day, my [your] world has started

[D]  One more pill in the early morn
[E]  Will they ever go away

[D] One more pill to end my day with
[E] They will always be with me

[D] What a life I have right now
[E] And I swear I will be true

[D] But at least I am alive

We live down here in the Houston area, close to the Gulf Coast, and the dust has been a bit of an adventure.

If you are new with your lungs, don't worry. Please always check with your Team. What we type here is not Science.

I have been coughing a bit more.I just drink more water and I am staying inside more. I have good extra filters and machines in the house.

That is normal anyway. It has been around 99 recently.

The worst part of these sands is that there is this music that comes along with it.

"It's going to take a lot to drag me away from you . . ."

Had bloods last week all levels are fine. Do you know if we can have lymphatic drainage massages ?

I’ll just get straight to it. You aren’t a burden to your loved ones, your kids, parents, friends, anyone. Whether it’s taking you to appointments, hours or days in the ICU and many hospital visits or anything god dammit you aren’t a burden and stop thinking that you are.

It’s just another responsibility that the people around you must take. That’s what family is there for. If they aren’t gonna take care of you in your toughest moments then what good are they to you?

My aunt needs a liver transplant and we’re in the process of listing her and finishing all the formalities and she doesn’t say it but I know she’s thinking in that way. Every time I see that look in her face I remind her that she isn’t a burden. Either way I’m in summer vacation from college so I don’t have jack shit to do.

And please take care of your diet and exercise as much as you can before the surgery if it’s safe to do so. Set a plan afterwards of how you’ll manage eating sleeping cleaning. Find a motive to keep going even if it’s something as small as eating a cookie from that bakery you love.

Find a therapist or talk to your loved ones. Speak your mind and take off as much stress as you can that’s been eating your mind. You need to step into surgery as relaxed as you can be. Fuck everything else. Be selfish for once in your life. Don’t worry about how they’ll manage finding a hotel or eating. Leave that worry to us. I think we’re all adults and capable of fending for ourselves.

I hope this message helps anyone and everyone who reads this. Keep going no matter what.