I have just completed a massive course of steroids designed to deal with one of the various chronic ailments with which I'm afflicted. Never have I seen such an enormous list of 'unwanted side-effects.' I imagine these are published at the behest of the pharmacorp legal team to see off any litigants and they are frequently unintentionally amusing. One favourite offered both constipation
and diarrhoea, presumably on alternate days. The steroids list, all two sides of it, warned about possible mood changes and, being a male, Scottish, sexagenarian, I pessimistically posited increasing stages of gloom-ridden melancholia of Dostoevskian proportions. Imagine my surprise when I got the opposite and spent one day as a babbling reincarnation of Mr Alfred Jingle--"Heads, heads...!...five children--mother--tall lady, eating sandwiches--forgot the arch--crash--knock--children look round--mother's head off--sandwich in her hand--no mouth to put it in--head of a family off--shocking, shocking!" Thanks, guys, it was fun while it lasted.