Do Over

08-02-2014 16:46

You know that feeling, I guess. When you've done something in a not so clever way, and you wish you'd get a do-over. This happende to me the other day, when I requested a continuance of the medication I received up till now.

Having been raised as a true Dutchman, I thought it unnecessarily wasteful to order my medication just as I was about to run out. This meant having three packages sent, where one would have been possible, had I thought of pre-ordering the other stuff that was going to run out at a later date.

The other day I did think of this and ordered all my prescription drugs at once.

 

Big mistake.

Suddenly my GP awoke to the idea of everything I was able to use at some point or other, and thought it to be too much. He decided I was not going to prescribe the most pleasant one of the bunch, any more. Shit!

At that point I had this strong feeling of do-over.

Strangely enough, it felt like that was actually attainable. Like if I thought of it hard enoug, it was actually going to happen. I had to awaken myself to reality. Because I had ordered all my prescription drugs at once, I now lost the best one of them. And I was not going to get that back again.

 

I guess there is nothing autistic to the sense of loss I felt. Accompanied by some degree of indignation. I felt I was wrongly deprived of my opiate. After all: I used it so sparingly that every time I ordered it, I had to call the assistent of the GP because it had been too long ago since I last ordered it. So I thought I was not abusing that medication, or doing something which endangered my health.

 

Of course I could meet with my GP and try to persuade him to prescribe that drug anyway. But this would have to entail some measure of lying. Because I have been using the drug in a slightly different way to what it was prescribed for. I'm afraid it will lead to not getting another drug either, any more, leading me from the puddle into the pond.

So here I am again, with that sense of having been wronged, and not being able to do something about is. Sound familiar?