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Our anniversary, twelfth anniversary for those that care, was on a Saturday. I didn’t want the Rebif hang-over even though its more mild with the Claritin.

Side note: I’ve switched from the Claritin-D to the plain stuff, that seems to have helped with the dry mouth/eyes. I only take it on injection days. It works better if its taken a couple hours before injecting.

So I skipped Friday’s shot. Since there were conjugal activities involved with anniversary celebrations getting stuck on Saturday didn’t seem very romantic. That pushed shot night to Sunday.

Now I’m on a Sun-Tues-Thurs schedule. I’m hoping the shift will allow me a glass of wine on the weekends without feeling like carp on a cracker. Or Carp on Crack. Either way its a bad sensation and has decreased my already minimal wine intake to a big fat sobbing zero.

This will be my first weekend on this schedule so we’ll see. I’m very anxious as we have many cases of delicious wine just crying out to be imbibed. Do you know how plainative wine can get when its feeling ignored?

Tip for the day: Never argue with a crazy person. Just nod your head and agree.

Every winter I end up with bronchitis or some insufferable chest gooey nasty phlegm related sickness. This year when I started dripping, as I do, I started taking Claritin D. Helped with the dripping and my chest felt better to boot.

Interesting side effect was decreased injection site reactions, fevers, general malaise … in other words my usual Rebif “flu-like symptoms”.

Word on the electronic street is that the antihistamines combat the slight allergic reaction some people have to the immuno-whatever that is Rebif and the like.

So, if you’re like me, check with your doc and try it out. All of a sudden I had energy. Cognitive clarity didn’t improve noticably but I was able to do things.

The down side is its drying my mouth and eyes so I’m trying to work out a schedule that helps the icks and keeps everything moist that’s supposed to be moist.

Ever since its been getting cold I am so blasted tired and achey I may as well be Methuselah. Not Young Methuselah, no more like Old Cranky Cantankerous Crotchety Methuselah.

A couple months ago I stopped taking my uppers figuring they were interfering with my sleep. Well they are mucking night sleep up, but things have degraded to the point where if I don’t take them I’ll have a whole lot of unfulfilling day sleep.

So I’ll take my 5mg of Ritalin or Provigil or whatever is needed. All the while I’ll be praying for a nice night of sleep. If the gods smile upon me maybe I’ll even dream. It’s been eons since I’ve had a dream.