occasional heat
by Carolinethis week, my highly lactose-intolerant father learned that his sleeping medication — which he’s been taking for at least ten years — contains LACTOSE. the world of medicine is strange and elusive and the way i try to fight certain afflictions is more like ritual than chemistry. faced with a blinding migraine earlier this week, i laid face-down with my forehead on a heating pad and then took a long hot shower. my father’s migraine medicine gives him digestive problems; excedrin migraine’s caffeine gives me bounceback headaches; i am happy to take simple aspirin or ibuprofen and apply occasional heat.
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