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 [...]
Tato Skins
June 5 09
I purchased a bag of Steak & Potato flavored Tato Skins out of the vending machine today. It seemed like a great choice, seeing as how the snack was labeled as a “Fit Pick” by the vending machine company. According to the Fit Pick website, Fit Pick expands vending machine options to include products that [...]
Go Olympics!
August 17 08
I just finished watching the swimming events tonight. Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal, and was immediately crowned the greatest person to ever live. I exaggerate, of course, but so does NBC so I figured it was okay. The other big swimming story, at least according to NBC, was Dara Torres. She claimed her [...]
Luddites rejoice!
July 25 08
The director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute issued a warning to his employees this week about the possible connection between cancer and cell phone usage. He was especially concerned about affects on children, and his suprisingly specific advice ranged from recommending the use of bluetooth headsets to how a phone should be oriented [...]
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 [...]