please see below:
keep going:
you are almost there!
if i really 'need' them i really don't mind pills,
but i'd rather walk and eat to keep at bay my ills.
by 'eat' i mean oats, and apples, and other healthy stuff.
a brisk thirty-minute walk a day isn't very tough.
i'm here at the drugstore, my blood pressure to take.
i hope to quit b/p med, to my life more simple make.
i think i can do it (if i keep up my walking) ,
be prescription-free, and keep on kicking and talking.
i quit my daily blood pressure med a week ago.
my readings are higher but, i think, still good to go.
if ‘doc' doesn't mind me being ‘prehypertensive',
i'll skip the prescription though it is not expensive.
a year ago i took ‘cholesterol med' for a day.
then my new doctor and i agreed to try another way
to improve my lab results with diet for a year, ……
eating nuts, and flax seed oil capsules from my dear.
a year's gone by and soon cholesterol i'll check,
with luck live a few more years, and not die a total wreck.
life's a drag enough sometimes, without being ill.
perhaps i can make it without a prescription pill.
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on second thought… it's not simple not taking pills
IF i have to walk and diet to keep away my ills.
a super colossal MAGICAL pill i would surely take
if then i needn't exercise……. and EVERYDAY i could eat my cake.
(2010)
I like that in your title you include the? after humor. As if you're still on the fence over whether or not this is funny. Well in my opinion you've managed to create something anecdotal humouress and informational all at once. Pills can be a shortcut to otherwise attainable ends. It seems your persistence has paid off Bri. P.S. You're probably right. I bet your insurance company wishes they had a few thousand more like you
taking pills. such a harsh dilemma of our post-modern society. you take a more humourous view on it though. well done, you actually made the corner of my lips rise in satisfaction of my daily dose of light humour.
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now it is August 2018. no prescriptions! still take flaxseed oil capsules, but no aspirin. and i take vitamin C and vitamin B 'complex', which also has vit. C. not much walking these days, but i still keep fairly busy. probably more talking (on phone) and more PH on PC. bri :) also, it, still eating healthy foods and being fed 'herbs' now by....someone at home.