My body dragged me a few feet and then threw me in a heap on the couch.<\/p>\n
I felt groggy and nauseated even after 10 hours of sleep. I had a headache and couldn’t think. This went on for hours.<\/p>\n
“What is this!?” I said to Tom. “I was feeling so good! We had that nice meal, and … and …”<\/p>\n
Then I realized: I am HUNG OVER.<\/p>\n
It’s been a very long time since I have been hung over – that’s why I didn’t recognize the symptoms right away.<\/p>\n
Also, I didn’t drink very much last night.<\/p>\n
Since I’ve been off the drugs<\/a>, I feel it’s safe to have a drink or two. Last night, I had a hot toddy (whiskey with honey and lemon), and then two shot glasses of rum with my very own special mix of herbs.<\/p>\n That’s not much alcohol. I don’t drink during the week, but three shots is about what I might have on a normal Saturday\u00a0night.<\/p>\n Apparently, though, my brain is like a virgin. I’ve lost the tolerance for alcohol that was built up over all these decades.<\/p>\n Today’s penny is a 1980, the year I turned 21 and could legally drink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My body dragged me a few feet and then threw me in a heap on the couch. I felt groggy and nauseated even after 10 hours of sleep. I had a headache and couldn’t think. This went on for hours. “What is this!?” I said to Tom. “I was feeling so good! We had that … read more One too many<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[362,619,493,618,488,620,504],"class_list":["post-6742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refraction","tag-362","tag-alcohol","tag-brain","tag-drinking","tag-drugs","tag-hangover","tag-recovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7475,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742\/revisions\/7475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}