Sunday, December 31, 2006

New Super Power Confirmed

No, not SuperPower(TM), the new productdiscipline for the losersfollowers of Scientology, but just the average run of the mill super-powers we all tend to have. For instance, my younger brother has the super-power "coming up roses", which's just what the aphorism would suggest. I'd envy him for it if he didn't also suffer from Instant Karma, which I so don't envy.

But, I've always known my super-power was "all dogs love me" (except for dogs that are either "on duty" or who've been abused). I have now had third-party confirmation to my second super-power, Opiate Resistance. I had to go to the hospital for a migraine, and got a "rather large" (the docs words) dose of Demerol that was supposed to turn me into a complete zombie in a half an hour or less. We had to stop the car so I could toss my cookies (in spite of the large injection of antinauseant preceding the Demerol injection), but otherwise the only ill effects were like being a half-way between being tipsy and drunk, with a dry mouth & slightly tweaky balance in the morning. Maddie says I have a "frightening resistance" to Demerol.

That's really cool: how many people have two super-powers? (Unless this means my dog-oriented powers are waning in the presence of so many catsen.)

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