What's Worse, the Disease or the Cure?

I recently was put on a new medication to take care of a small rash I have on my back. The rash was only about two inches in diameter and didn't really bother me much. My wife on the other hand thought I should go check it out, because like a good wife, she cares about me and doesn't want it to get worse. So I go to the Dr. and she prescribes the medication. She said it may cause dizziness or headaches. I thought, no biggy those are rare side effects. Man oh man was I wrong. I ruined a perfectly good weekend on those pills. I started to take them Friday and they left me crippled the rest of the weekend.

I formed a headache Saturday morning, not too bad just enough to take some Tylenol. By the evening my head was pounding so bad I couldn't even see straight. I had to go to bed at 8pm on a Saturday night. I feel so bad for my poor wife, having to take care of two babies on a Saturday night, instead of just one. Sunday was a complete nightmare. Forget the rash at this point, I have to deal with healing myself from the medication that is supposedly "the cure". I got out of bed just long enough to go to church and it felt as though someone put an Acme anvil on my head every time I stood up. So, to deal with the pain I took some Excedrin migraine. It gave me some head ache relief but my body had a reaction to it and my airway, tongue, lips, and eyes started to swell up. When it rains it pours folks. So Kasey, my wife, quickly ran out and got some Benadryll to take care of the reaction. By Sunday night I had more drugs on board than Robert Downey Jr. and Jose Cansaco put together. I went to bed at 8pm again, my high school counselor was right, drugs do make you a loser.

Needless to say I stopped taking the rash medication,(I only took 3 pills) the rash is going away on it own. So the question I ask myself and all my readers; did I need to put myself through all this crap in the first place? No, probably not. Sometimes the cure is way worse than the disease. Give me a rash any day, just please, no more pills!!