Thursday 28 February 2008

The old woman who swallowed the fly...

I feel like that old woman from the Nursery Rhyme...

"There was an old woman who swallowed a fly, I don't know why she swallowed a fly, Perhaps she'll die."

It then goes on... "There was an old woman who swallowed a spider, That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her, She swallowed the spider to catch the fly, I don't know why she swallowed the fly, Perhaps she'll die."

The old woman of the tale goes on to swallow increasingly unlikely animals, each being set to catch the preceding... by the end of the song she is up to large farm animals " There was an old woman who swallowed a horse, She's dead—of course!"

I started taking steroids to help counteract the relapse my MS was having. Taking the steroids caused me to get a chest infection... so the Doctor prescribed me antibiotics to cure the chest infection. I duly and correctly completed this course of tablets. Taking the antibiotics (likely) caused me to get a yeast infection (nice). This caused me to purchase a one-off dose of curative medicine at the exorbitant cost of £11.50 (seriously, I should have seen a Doctor, a prescription would have been not quite half that).

It is the old woman and the fly, that is for certain... although in my house, clearly it would be a ladybug.