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Show 178 Rx: Coke and a Cartoon I do not normally drink soft drinks and I certainly do not normally drink caffeinated soft drinks. I respect what health remains me and avoid putting obviously bad things into my body. But I have been ordered to lie flat on my back and to drink as much Coke as I can in hopes of relieving this headache. "It might be a spinal headache," Dr. Chappie has told me. I am remembering the potential syphoning effect of the broken catheter still remaining in my dura. If my brain is at least somewhat lacking its protective fluid covering, it would grieve the loss. Thankfully, the body will produce more spinal fluid and drinking liquids would help with that. For some reason, drinking caffeine helps even more. It is a blinding headache. My children are sitting on the floor next to my prone body on the couch, watching afternoon cartoons on TV. They are wistfully wishing for a drink of the forbidden substance, I can tell, as they each eye it from time to time, boldly sitting on the coffee table, apparently mocking them. I have had this headache off and on for some time now but at least I am home. |