Because I don't like when other people do it, I've tried to restrain myself greatly from talking about being sick on this website. Though I've mentioned it, and bitched a little bit, I've tried to keep it as something you might hear in passing, like, "I have a wretched sinus infection. Have you noticed Bush is a simpleton? Despite its texture, I have discovered that I like cottage cheese."

But. After an extended course of antibiotics - the Biaxin was replaced by another whole course of Keflex, which I stayed on because I still felt a bit like I had a wretched sinus infection in the mornings - it seems to be coming back. How is this possible?

My mom loathes going to the doctor so much that it will take a serious, possibly persistent medical condition to get her there, and I'm starting to understand why. I do not want to go back to another doctor. I'm sure there are some nice doctors out there in the world, but none of them apparently live near me - or my mother - judging by the delightful escapades of Other's whompin ear infections and my recent sinus infections. (Is there something about knowing anatomy in amazingly great detail that gives you the ability to actually look right through a person sitting in front of you?)

I realize, judging by my stints working in a pharmacy, that we can't unleash the ability to buy antibiotics over the counter on the American public. I realize that there would be a health crisis as the world had never seen in, like, a week. But god damn it I wish I could just go buy some damn antibiotics and not have to talk to a doctor about it.