Dilution

I took a two hour nap yesterday (Sunday) and woke up with the worst headache, nauseous—leading me to believe I either had a migraine or the flu. Even though I felt like had a fever, I thought is was a migraine, so I took migraine pills, which ended up not helping. In fact, they made me feel worse—which is what they do if it’s not a migraine. I wish it was easier to tell, but it’s not.

All night I had sick dreams, work dreams, and sick work dreams. In the morning, again a bad headache, though was up before 5 A.M. as usual. I tried to work on writing anyway, made a cup of coffee, and took two Tylenols. Within an hour my headache was totally gone. It was so much of a relief to feel better, I felt almost high. I wondered if there was something weird about the Tylenols—like maybe they were actually codeine or something.

The whole day I felt good, energetic, and I was even in a good, positive mood at work. When I got home and came over to my computer I was shocked to see, sitting there, the two Tylenols I thought I took. I hadn’t taken them at all, only gotten them out. But I thought I took them. I wondered if I had invented some new form of homeopathy or something.