Monday, October 5, 2009

Overdosed

Overdosed on my asthma medicine yesterday evening. Thought I was going to die. I bought a nebuliser on Saturday as my asthma has become severe again. But since all the explanations were written in russian or arabic (although the machine is marked "made in China"), I thought I'd add 25 mg or more of ventolin into the tube for breathing. Must have been too high dosage because after a while I could feel my heart thumping very hard. Hands were tremoring uncontrollably. And legs were so weak I couldn't stand. It was all so wobbly and I was very faint. I dragged myself slowly off my study table to my bed but felt I needed fresh air. So when my legs were better, I walked out to the terrace. There was a cool breeze and a lovely full moon. The riots have died down and there's silence in the streets. Bro Rosario came out to join me and we chatted for some 20 minutes. I felt better and went back to my room. Well, so much for self-cures. Now looking again at the instructions in russian I think it's trying to say 5mg of ventolin and 25mg of saline solution mix for the nebuliser.