Whenever I feel like not taking Imodium, I think of my students and my mom.
I tell myself GET OVER YOURSELF. It's fun to play "You're Normal and It'll Go Away On Its Own." But I'm not normal. I have IBS. I can play my little game and be SICK and feel triumphant. Or I can take a stupid pill and get on with my life! 
("I didn't take my medicine that time!  I'm a sick sack lying on the bathroom floor crying! But I'm morally superior to my well self because I didn't take an Imodium!") 
This is SICK thinking!!!  My body does not pull water from my colon, and as a result, I get stabbing, cramping PAIN and explosive D and gas! If I take Imodium when I have an attack, I can be my old self in minutes! 
When I taught English, I had to think of my students waiting for me when I had an attack. But if my student had a headache, would I council against taking a headache remedy that had worked for them in the past? Or would I be like my mother, who would say, "No, no, I don't want to take anything. It will pass..." then sit, whine and suffer all day rather than pop one Advil for a headache...?
Don't be a martyr. (If anything, remember how it turns out for the martyr.  )
~nelly~ (Took 2 imodium this morning as a preventative!)
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