According to Google, I am currently ineligible to participate in the Olympics (or any other professional sport) because of doping.
I'd admittedly really bad at "staying off my feet" and since I don't watch soap operas, I tend to only manage to follow these instructions if I can surf the internet.* Yesterday, I got put on Terbutaline to stop my contractions and when I was googling this drug, I was amused that articles about the this substance being banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency** routinely include the factoid that it is used to stop labor as well.
Given that Terbutaline isn't even usually prescribed until the third trimester of pregnancy, I'm wondering if this is a case of Wikipedia providing a little too many random bits of information for newspaper reporters or if there is a large number of women who are 7 and 8 months pregnant and also competing in professional supports. Clearly this news means that my plans of becoming an Olympic gymnast must be put on hold until I receive my Theraputic Use Exception.
*In December I had to stay on my left side for about a week which was extremely inconvenient for web surfing even on a laptop.
**It's primarily an asthma drug that increases your lung capacity by relaxing the smooth muscles in the lungs.
3 comments:
as a performance enhancing drug, is it in any way helping you write your synthesis statements? If it is, I need to know this :)
@b Not yet, apparently it does not give one an advantage in that way. Of course this might be because I took "off my feet" to mean no library and clearly one cannot write synthesis statements if one cannot go to the library :)
I guess I'll have to keep searching for a synthesis cure, then :)
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