pill

Awake, agape, schocked and surprised.
The wife's alarm clock is so disgustingly loud and unpleasant every emergency reflex in the body is actuated.
When the system has returned to normal, realise that the pain in the back did not go away during the night, but stayed there, biding it's time.
Think. Get up and go to the loo.Bent double, lumbar pains. Aged thirty years overnight.
Yuck.

But then a thought.
That dentist had given anti-pane pills for toothache, as a result of his oral machinations. Strong warnings not to take too many are in place.
They were not necessary, there was hardly any pain. They are unused.
Now:
would these pills prescribed for a toothache know the difference?
High level logic for one so sleep-befuddled and pain stricken!

Take a misapropriated pill, (for the back, not the jaw), and lie down.

Twenty minutes later, awake, the son is up, he has a headache, he cannot go to school after the events of the last few days.
The wife rings up, the school says most of the school is out sick.
Bugs, microbes, viruses, little monsters that can end all planning.

And then get up, the pain is gone.
And laugh about the worries and thoughts that there could be such a thing as pain killers with a specific mission. Little hit men with "jaw pains only, no backs, stomachs or anything else" on their brief.
Super silly sleepyhead sexagenerian.