Totally Maxed Out...

As much as I hate going to doctors, I finally broke down and went to my family practitioner today. I've had a cold and horribly sore throat for well over a week now and it's not getting any better, and I found out yesterday that two of my students have had strep. I'm certainly not afraid of dying or anything, but hey, strep is easily treatable if its caught early, so I figure I'd go in and make sure I don't have something serious. The diagnosis: I don't have anything serious. Other than a cold... which the doctors seem to think is kinda serious in someone as prone to pneumonia as I am. But I don't think it's serious. But, as a consequence of my doctor visit, I'm now totally maxed out on medicines. I'm going to finish taking everything the doctors told me to take, at least until I can shake this darn cold. But to be honest, I'm beginning to think it's all these chemicals I'm taking that are interfering with my ability to get over the cold. For the past 20 months, I've been on Nexium, Proventil, Flovent, Ventolin, Singulaire, and some of the time on Accolate. Now after today, the doctor added (yes, he told me to add this on top of what I'm already taking!) Symbicort, Advair, and Tussinex, for the cold. Since the drugs I've been taking for the last year and a half don't seem to be doing any good whatsoever, I've decided that once I'm over the cold and finish my present supplies of the the stuff, I'm just going to quit everything, cold-turkey, and see what happens. I doubt anyone will be able to tell any difference -- least of all me. All these chemicals can't be good for me long term. And the ironic thing is, --- in spite of all this "medicine"... I still can't breathe! The lung specialist diagnosed me with "persistent chronic asthma and COPD". Big wup. Okay, time's up. I figure a year and a half is long enough. Since I haven't seen any improvement at all, I'm calling it quits as soon as I can get rid of this cold. After all, what's the worst that could happen? Yeah, right. Like that isn't going to happen anyway sooner or later, huh? Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?