this year, i'm thankful for ...- long vacations
- deal or no deal
- working from home
- having a new storage space for all of my liquids and gels: texas
- singing with billy joel
- taking the correct metro back to the car ... er, wait ...
- being 25
- six months same as cash
- ukrop's mac and cheese
- good cholesterol levels
- the right to stand up for myself
- new babies and healthy puppies ... no matter how crusty they all are
- automatic email deletion
- getting out of west virginia unharmed
- occasionally having good hair
- a bottle full of vicodin
- meeting invitations that begin like this: "drinks with..."
- you! awwwwwww!! :P
most of all, i'm thankful for miracles. my cold, cold heart has never been this warm.happy thanksgiving!
is it just me, or does anyone else see the problem with drug manufacturers gratuitously hawking their goods directly to the general public? shouldn't they be trying to impress the medical care providers of the world? it seems to me that lipitor's marketing department didn't consider a target audience when they masterminded their plan. and! why can't i watch a football game without seeing a commercial warning the world about the apparently widespread crisis that is erectile dysfunction?
guys ... come on ... what the hell is going on?
granted, lots of us probably get headaches and heartburn. unless we're alicia ... if that's the case, we only get heartburn when we're pregnant. we may even have muscle aches, the flu, or a nasty cough.
yes. those are pretty basic and affect a good percentage of us. says me ... i don't have the numbers handy. i'd even go as far as including migraines in that list because i know people who've had them.
gosh ... insomnia, you say? that's right on the line. i'm sure lots of people suffer from it, but i'm also sure we have too many "cures" for it. you may try over-the-counter but end up having to talk to your doctor.
but what about meningitis? if you have meningitis are you going to trust your doctor to prescribe the right treatment or are you going to demand your treatment based on a commercial that aired during "how i met your mother?" you know, the one that was sandwiched between the ads for the latest pizza hut deal and bleach.
you also have serious decisions to make about restless leg syndrome, overactive bladder (a.k.a. frequent bladder urges ... we all have internal plumbing), peripheral artery disease, genital herpes, acid reflux disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, enlarged prostate, and depression.
what? is most of the country afflicted by these? i feel so left out.
so! today i'm staying up until 3 a.m. and occasionally spinning myself around ... that should get me caught up on a few side effects.
