Poking my head up...

Sorry for the extended absence. I've been both busy and not feeling the greatest. I halved my dosage of Paxil at the beginning of this week as per the tapering protocol I'm following. I didn't think much of it at the time. But yesterday, I was wondering why I was so moody and was being so snippy to everybody. Then I realized it must be the reduced Paxil dosage. I was in a good mood for only about five minutes yesterday. During that five minutes, a coworker asked me if I would do a flyer advertising a retirement party for another coworker. I agreed to do it, and then five minutes later regretted it. I'll try and put something together this evening.

To make things worse, my mother has been in terrible pain because of the nerve damage from the shingles she had two years ago. (This is called Postherpetic Neuralgia.) I took her to Urgent Care on Memorial Day so she could get some better pain medicine. Tomorrow, she will be seeing her regular doctor. Hopefully, he will give her a prescription for Lyrica, which is a relatively new medication that is supposed to treat the kind of pain she's having.

Oh, well...back to the daily grind...