- Superman is not quite himself on Kryptonite.
My attempts to “keep it healthy” are not working out for me so much.
Yesterday at around 2pm I took my multi-vitamin, a B-50 complex and a niacin tablet. I had taken these only a couple of times before and never all at once. It only took 10 minutes before my face, ears, chest and arms were completely crimson and en fuego. I looked and felt like I fell asleep in a tanning bed for a week.
I’ve never experienced anything like that. I thought at first that I had been bitten by something. I tell my boss that I think I need to go to the hospital. He took one look at me and just said, “Yeah, let’s get you to a hospital.”
I spent the rest of the afternoon in the ER waiting room looking like an ad for Coppertone SPF (”Don’t let this happen to you on vacation”).
According to Dewey Finn, you’re not hardcore unless you live hardcore. So Amy Winehouse can be jealous because the diagnosis was that I OD’d on niacin. Try to make me go to rehab, and I will say, “NO NO NO.”
I am back to paleness today but still feeling weird. They gave me some Benadryll and I went to sleep at 8pm last night, which I don’t think I’ve done since the 6th grade. I am off the niacin until the next time I want to get out of work early.
I’m glad this situation turned into an opening to House and not Six Feet Under. I’m sorry I sold you the junk on the corner of a Whole Foods. I feel responsible.
My mom was worried about you. So was I. Stop taking drugs! Also stop taking vitamins.
(It’s called flushing. Come over to the house for dinner sometime and we’ll discuss ad nauseum. Maybe literally.)