The morning after the Princess’s little soiree, Queen Lakeview looks at her and says, “Your eye is really red. I think you have pinkeye!” The Queen is known for being a bit on the dramatic side, so the princess just chalked it up to the visit to a smoky pub on the way home from the restaurant (the little berg in which we were staying did not have a smoking ban). Luckily, the princess had brought along Prince Shut Up’s prescription antibiotic eye drops from his last round of pink eye (two weeks ago) and used those. By Monday she felt so bad she took the prince to his caretaking establishment and went to urgent care. She received not only antibiotics, but also prednisone (three days, 30 mg) to kill the two week old cough that two boxes of Mucinex hadn’t eradicated (but did help her sleep). The pink eye was "just" a manifestation of her cold/secondary infection.
While I will never promote the use of drugs for anything other than it’s intended use (to do so would be illegal), let me give other dethroned princesses out there a little tip: you can clean an entire house in one day while on steroids and without a little one underfoot. When I say, "clean" I mean closets, drawers, under beds, cabinets, etc. etc. It was the most work I have ever accomplished while taking a sick day in my entire life. :-)
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