when in doubt, read the directions

so john started his parasite cleanse. it's pretty intense. it's a drop of wormwood stuff and a pill of clove stuff and another pill of something or other stuff, ... it's just a lot. it's complex and some stuff you take with food and some you mix with water and some is every day but some is only every other day and some have increasing doses and some are mixed with citric acid and on and on.

needless to say john is pretty disintersted in the whole thing.

i have not yet figured out why he is so less than excited to rid himself of the parasites. i sort of think he's in denial about the whole thing. i mean, parasites, eww. who can blame him. and it's not as obvious as the vasculitis spots or the insulin meter when he had the steroid induced diabetes. all that's pretty 'in your face', so to speak. this, well, ... it's more 'in your blood' aka: easier to ignore.

but he did go ahead and start it while sort of half listening to me as i tried to explain what the regiment would be for the next 18-20 days. he sort of uh-huh'ed me until i stopped talking.
oooo-k. you're a big boy. it's all yours.

he promptly accidentally overdosed himself on wormwood tincture and got some odd red ring under his lower lip and a pretty good case of the runs. ("i thought it said one dropper full, not one drop").

oy.

i am pleased to report that he is now totally on board with undersanding the sevierity of getting rid of the parasites and the importance of following the instructions on the label.
k