57012--Sugar cookies

[zyzyly]

I took my first does of prednisone this morning and waited to see what would happen. I wandered into my friend's office--the guy who was telling me he had to put an "act normal" sign on his monitor when he was taking it. He told me stories about how his personality changed completely for a while. It was in the middle of it that he asked his wife out for the first time. He says he never would have otherwise.

After I while I felt a burst of energy and completely cleaned off my desk top and dusted everything, then found the labeling machine and made labels that said "labeling machine" and "stapler" and so on. Then I laughed for a while, and my co-worker took me outside for a walk. It was a little like being stoned. I wrote some letters of reference for my students. I turned away briefly from one letter, and when I turned back, the font in the second paragraph was light blue. I looked away again and looked back, and the font was black again, but there were a bunch of spelling errors. I have no idea what that was about.

I came home and decided to make sugar cookies to give to my co-workers, and that's what I have been doing for the past 4 hours. I don't feel quite myself.

I'm glad this is finals week and my vacation starts soon.

Comments

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

I've had a headache for a month and half, it's kinda like that.
I hear things all the time that aren't there. The world looks really tiny. The other day when I tried to write all the letters came out tiny.
Sometimes everything is fuzzy or blurry or gray.
But when I don't have a headache, everything is amazing.

[pinkroo.livejournal.com]

this actually sounds kind of fun. And now you have cookies :)

[sunshine-two.livejournal.com]

The side affects I experienced when I was taking steroids was moon face, and insomnia. I experienced some mental racing a few times but, that is all.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

When Sheeyun was on quite high doses of prednisone and also bedbound he gave himself a maths education equivalent to a master's degree. So that was a happy and pleasing result.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

The cookies look tasty.

[kishenehn.livejournal.com]

Love that photo. :)

[saintgeorge.livejournal.com]

Taking prednisone first thing in the morning is a breeze compared to drinking distilled cow's urine, but the cow's urine made for a better story.

I was on prednisone during my chemotherapy treatment in 1999. I had visual, auditory and olfactory hallucinations. It was quite a head trip but I preferred the cow's urine treatment because it included living in India.

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

A month and a half straight? Maybe you should get it checked out so that everything can be amazing again.

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

Fun and disconcerting at the same time. :)

And absolutely no appetite for cookies.

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'll be on them long enough to get moon face, but I do have some trouble sleeping.

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

Wow--that's pretty amazing!

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

I nibbled on one and they tasted pretty good. My wife ate two of them and declared them yummy.

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

haha--good!

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

I agree--it does make for a better story, but I think I'll stick to the prednisone. :)

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

It was certainly fascinating to be around. :D