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Brown Plastic
Dec. 7th, 2004 08:12 amMy kitchen counter has been turned into a pharmacy.
I'm not really thrilled with this. The number of prescription drugs that I'm taking continues to rise, and while I guess it's comforting to know I'm just one of millions of Americans also taking prescribed drugs (as opposed to the others), I feel it's a big switch from the stubborn, never take cold medicine me. Now I'll let my doc give me anything.
Still, some of this, the three new prescriptions I got yesterday for the back are temporary, but my regular five (yes, five that work on appetite, blood sugar, cholesterol, and blood pressure) are quite enough to keep up with. So you see that there's quite a collection of little brown bottles on my counter.
Of course of the last two weeks there's also a collection of other things, muscle relaxants, aspirin, Aleve, Flexal, Icy hot, a heated wrap. Suddenly my apartment seems more like a old age home.
Hopefully it's on the downside now, with the anti-inflammatory and the soon to be know results from the quickly done, and extremely painful MRI yesterday. It was great being thrown on a flat carriage, into the open MRI, and told not to move for an hour as the scan was done, as my back slowly clenched up and spasamed.
I know, you're all tired about hearing about my back, but what yells loudest gets the most attention, and right now, there's still plenty of attention that the back's getting, and more money is going to it than all of my Christmas list this year, so I guess that's my gift to myself.
Ho Ho Ho.
Still, isn't there better ways? Sometimes another pill just seems wrong.
I'm not really thrilled with this. The number of prescription drugs that I'm taking continues to rise, and while I guess it's comforting to know I'm just one of millions of Americans also taking prescribed drugs (as opposed to the others), I feel it's a big switch from the stubborn, never take cold medicine me. Now I'll let my doc give me anything.
Still, some of this, the three new prescriptions I got yesterday for the back are temporary, but my regular five (yes, five that work on appetite, blood sugar, cholesterol, and blood pressure) are quite enough to keep up with. So you see that there's quite a collection of little brown bottles on my counter.
Of course of the last two weeks there's also a collection of other things, muscle relaxants, aspirin, Aleve, Flexal, Icy hot, a heated wrap. Suddenly my apartment seems more like a old age home.
Hopefully it's on the downside now, with the anti-inflammatory and the soon to be know results from the quickly done, and extremely painful MRI yesterday. It was great being thrown on a flat carriage, into the open MRI, and told not to move for an hour as the scan was done, as my back slowly clenched up and spasamed.
I know, you're all tired about hearing about my back, but what yells loudest gets the most attention, and right now, there's still plenty of attention that the back's getting, and more money is going to it than all of my Christmas list this year, so I guess that's my gift to myself.
Ho Ho Ho.
Still, isn't there better ways? Sometimes another pill just seems wrong.
