What the heck????

When I started on the magic meds, the new doc also gave me something to help me sleep. It's a famous brand name! It's the drug of choice for a common problem: Lack of sleep. Lack of sleep will make you hurt, it will make you fall asleep or be exhausted during the day, it will make you testy, it will make you crazy. So obviously, you need sleep! But then...what if the little sleepy-time pill not only stops working after a week or so, but it makes you dizzy during the day? The room starts spinning so much, you feel as if you cannot hold your head straight up because you are swirling like that carnival booth where you squirt paint over a paper on a turntable. Sure, it makes pretty colors and cool patterns, but you don't want to actually RIDE on that spinner.
   The other symptoms start appearing, you start thinking you are crazy. (Well, if the strait-jacket fits...) You cannot think of simple words. You are trying to remember an object's name. You ask your husband to hand you that, that THING, as you point to a cup or a spoon. You have no idea what the word is. You write a note to someone then reread it and it is essentially gibberish.
Dear So-So,
Congratulations on your little bunghole of joy.

This REALLY happened before! Of course I meant BUNDLE!!!! What is happening??????? (worse yet, you have no idea what the person's name is you are writing to, and you go through your address book laboriously for a clue. ) Calm down, deep breath. Let's figure this out. I'm just tired. Of course, that's it! That's all! Why is the room going round and round???? Why are there bugs attacking me on the right? (They aren't, you just think they are there, eating you like midges on a summer's day)
Hmm, maybe I should call the doctor?
So I call the doctor and the doctor says: No more monkeys jumping on the bed. Just kidding! No the doctor says STOP THE MEDS NOW.
Okey dokey. Withdrawal time! Are you kidding me???? Not only are you having side effects from the drug, you are now having symptoms from stopping them.
Sleep will not come.
Wide awake.
10 games of Scrabble on the Kindle.
HA. I won! HA. How come it keeps rejecting perfectly good words like shambula (50 bonus points!)Sorry no such word., Please try again. Err, how about Bulasham? Same thing. It's not a word. Even my stupid Kindle knows how to spell better than I.
Sleep. Must sleep.
(My cousin mentioned that when she cannot sleep she thinks of poor Michael Jackson who tried drug after drug to sleep, finally succumbing to the nightmarish mixture of hellish drugs. I am not so judgmental of him now...)

I need sleep. Desperately. I literally have not slept more than 4 hours a night in years, except for that first week or so of the sleepy-time pill. And now...it is bye-bye.And I want to go night-night.
It is Halloween. I am going to be a ZOMBIE. I will not need special make up! Woo-hoo!