2004-12-11
TOO MUCH TIME ON MY HANDS
"I'd rather go to work," I said | Instead I spent yesterday at the hospital undergoing "procedures"; a polite euphemism for a "double-dipping" interior inspection, having a colonoscopy and endoscopy in the same sitting | I could have done without the line staff joking about "...which end is the camera looking at first," even though I laughed right along with them | 
It was a fairly routine process but the doctor now advises against eat spicy foods "...three hours before bedtime" and prescribes me Prevacor, which the insurance company refused to pay for | They want me to get an over-the-counter brand name item popular in the Big Pharma >patent-protected patent-medicine arsenal of drugs, at approximately $1 per pill |
On the way home, I saw a sign offering some unusual holiday ideas | Had to take a snapshot | ¶ 01:25
"I'd rather go to work," I said | Instead I spent yesterday at the hospital undergoing "procedures"; a polite euphemism for a "double-dipping" interior inspection, having a colonoscopy and endoscopy in the same sitting | I could have done without the line staff joking about "...which end is the camera looking at first," even though I laughed right along with them |
It was a fairly routine process but the doctor now advises against eat spicy foods "...three hours before bedtime" and prescribes me Prevacor, which the insurance company refused to pay for | They want me to get an over-the-counter brand name item popular in the Big Pharma >patent-protected patent-medicine arsenal of drugs, at approximately $1 per pill |
On the way home, I saw a sign offering some unusual holiday ideas | Had to take a snapshot | ¶ 01:25
