Careful With Excedrin, Folks... | armine's Blog

...So when I got back from the dentist the other day I felt a headache coming on; sometimes I get really bad ones when I don't have my daily coffee fix by a certain time of the day (between 11 and noon). So I thought, no big deal, I'll just drop a couple of Excedrin Tension headache and that will take care of it. But 2 of those didn't, so I took a couple of Advil, thinking that should do the trick - it still didn't work. Then I took 2 Excedrin Extra Strength tablets a few hours later, thinking 'this has got to do it' - but my head was still throbbing. Two more of the Extra Strength and my head pain started going away - but then I got this awful ringing in my ears and my heart sped up, my muscles all cramped up, it was an awful sensation that lasted for several hours. I was trying to drift off to sleep and I was thinking about Dr. (actually he isn't anymore) Richard Sharpe, a local criminal who made headlines here in Boston when he went to his ex-wife Karen's home and shot her point-blank with a gun.  They found him in his jail cell Tuesday a.m.; looks like he hanged himself but there is an investigation underway. I was thinking about his kids, how awful it must have been to experience something like that (one parent murdering another). My understanding was, his kids were very distressed (understandably) over losing their mother, and wanted to have nothing to do with their dad, ever again. So if he was looking for sympathy from his kids over what he did to their mom, he must have been pretty disappointed by their shunning him after the crime was committed. But this is just what I don't understand: Why do they do it in the first place? In any case... I was thinking about the Sharpe case, and that's when the loud buzzing in my ears started up. I guess the moral of the story is this: Unless you want to go to jail for the rest of your life (and lose just about everything you have), don't ever kill anyone, even if you vehemently hate them. And don't take too much Excedrin at one time - next time I'll live with a little headache pain if I really have to! It was a pretty scary experience.