For the last three days, I’ve had this incredible stress headache that simply won’t dissolve, no matter how many oblivion-inducing pain killers I consume. It has always been my unfortunate fate to receive limited comfort from traditional medications of this sort — Tylenol doesn’t even touch me. When I was about 12, my mother finally realized I wasn’t kidding when I said the “take two and call me in the morning” approach didn’t help. Since then, codeine has been my best friend, but my own awareness of its potential problems keeps me from relying on it too heavily. It’s times like this that I wish desperately for a pool, some place I could just relax and let everything flow away from me for awhile . . . La sigh. How do normal people manage to let everything go? Can I get that in a pill? 
