I don’t seem to have great luck with my pharmacies. Last fall Walgreens gave me the wrong drugs for a month. I’ve also consistently run into issues with them either not having my full prescription available when I show up, or with the wrong doctor being called to approve my refills. So I decided to [...]
Category Archives: Health
P90X
April 8 10
Yesterday was day 17 of P90X, so last night should have been Shoulders, Arms, and Abs. I opted for the alternate workout of driving to Albertsons and buying Soft Batch chocolate chip cookies. Probably not a good sign.
Health Care Reform = Welfare?
March 21 10
We have a huge national debt. Clinton balanced the budget, then Bush unbalanced it. Obama is taking it even further down the red line because of the “spend your way out of a recession” strategy. And now he threatens to take it even further, at least in the short term, with health care reform. So [...]
Walgreens
September 23 09
Walgreens emailed me yesterday to tell me that it would take a few days to fill the prescription I ordered. Actually, I would have loved it if they were that specific. “We’ll let you know… Call the store if you have a problem with that” was the gist of the non-specific note I received. So [...]
Aplastic Anemia site
September 19 09
I received another couple random emails from people about my aplastic anemia site this past month. For the last few years that’s happened only every month or so, but more recently it’s increased to a few a month. In light of this, I’ve decided to redesign the whole thing in a way that would let [...]
Drugs are expensive
August 22 09
That’s a picture of the prescription that I picked up earlier this month, the same one that I’ve been taking for about 4 years now. It’s a one month supply; 360 little pink pills crammed into one translucent orange bottle. And it’s generic, too. A Czech-made knockoff of the brand name produced by Novartis. So [...]
Sick Around The World
May 10 08
At the behest of a co-worker, I went online last night to the PBS website to try and find a recent Frontline episode. I don’t typically make a habit of streaming video (watching TV on the computer), but as computers have gotten better and internet connections have gotten faster, it’s actually not a terrible experience [...]
Aplastic Anemia Site
August 27 05
I’m working on a site that will have information about Aplastic Anemia, if not just a directory of worthwhile links and my account of dealing with the condition. It is in progress, but please check it out and let me know what you think. The site also includes links to the pictures I took of [...]
Sensaphone
August 18 05
This morning I was awakened by a most non-soothing robot voice that kept repeating: “the electricity is off. alert condition three exists. alert condition four exists”. What madness is this, thought I. Had the robots that eat old people’s medicine mistaken me for one of their quarry? How did they find me? Maybe they infiltrated [...]
Cherry Flavored Pipe Tobacco
August 14 05
This morning I went into the cancer center for another of what is becoming my routine blood tests. Numbers aren’t great right now, but from yesterday’s test I am slightly up – so that’s good. There was a really crotchety old man that was also in the cancer center yesterday. He was quite vocal in [...]