For the past four days I have been suffering a severe allergic reaction to an antibiotic I was taking for two weeks for a nasty sinus infection over Christmas and New Year's. I'm not even going to go through the details of what I looked like, but suffice it to say that I was covered with very red splotches on my Scandinavian bluish-white skin on my entire body...with a miserable feeling of almost best described as a severe sunburn that itches from the inside and the outside. I saw it coming on so I was able to get the proper care before the total onset of the severe allergic reaction. Still, I was so beaten down emotionally with being alone, feeling woozy from the meds, and with my skin breaking out. I was one total piece of mess. (I have to say a couple of friends did call to keep check on me however they could...something which I so appreciated.)

Anyway.......True to my luck, in the midst of the bout I received the following very comforting advertising letter with the appropriate soothing pink printed paper with serene images of flowers and things associated with death from a local crematorium. And best of all, they are offering me a deal I simply can't refuse!

I don't know how they figure it out, but everytime I come down with an illness which beats me down with a Rocky Balboa-like knockout punch, I ALWAYS get these kinds of letters. (I think they must have some triggering mechanism with my local Target pharmacy.)

In the words of Charlie Brown, "Good grief...."