confessions of steroid user

Confessions of a steroid user

Even though Michael Vick and the corrupt NBA referee are starting to

put matters in perspective, there remains a lot of controversy over

Barry Bonds and his slog toward the home run record. As of this

writing, he now is sitting at 753 career homers and has a chance to

tie or break Henry Aaron's record on the Giants' current homestand.

I've written about Barry before; I'm pretty much ambivalent about it

all; there looks to be a lot of circumstantial evidence that he was

seeking an edge and that he may have taken performance-enhancing

drugs. But given the presence of Gaylord Perry in the Hall of Fame,

it's difficult to see why Bonds should be vilified.

Lately I've been thinking about Bonds in a different context. Since I

had my surgery in April, I've been living without a pituitary gland.

As a result, I am now taking a variety of pills to help keep me on the

beam. Among the things I take every day is hydrocortisone.

Hydrocortisone is (cue ominous music) a steroid! I'm not sure if

taking steroids has enhanced my performance in any way, but I still

end up taking the pills anyway. And if I stopped taking steroids,

ultimately I would get so sick that I'd die. So when I hear people