Prescription Day
I had to swing by my local pharmacy this morning to get some prescriptions filled. Four of them, in fact. As I sat in my car and tossed back a handful of pills, it occurred to me that I am now taking nine prescription medications each day. If I had been born two hundred years ago, I’d never have lived to my current age. Or at least I’d be one uncomfortable fellow.
Then I thought that with the expense of these medications, why don’t they have any nutritive content? I mean, McDonald’s can make a 1,000 calorie cheeseburger for $0.99. Would it be so hard for Pfizer and Lilly to throw in a little fat and some protein along with the patented chemicals that I roll down my gullet each morning? Just think of how much money I could save on food!
I’ve been lobbying the FDA for years to add traces of narcotics to insulin. At least a little anesthetic of some sort. I mean, if I’ve got to stick myself with needles four times a day, can’t I get just a little bit of psychoactive payoff?
When I was in college, if I’d paid $200 for drugs, they would have lasted me a lot longer than one month.
Oh, yeah - I’m heading over to a café this evening to work on the Aran some more. Ever so slowly, it is coming along.
March 9th, 2004 at 11:34 am
Please tell me you’re kidding. *Nine* different meds every day? You’re what, 32? Have you ever considered placing a hex on the dillhole that hit you?
And now I’m going to give thanks that my back doesn’t act up very often, that Vicodin is a “special occasion” and that we were born in a time when the meds *exist* so that you are around to tease.
March 9th, 2004 at 6:58 pm
Right now I’m taking 7 a day; I can’t believe it. It’s very weird, isn’t it, to have handfulls of pills. I am very sorry I don’t get Vicodan, though, even on special occasions. But I will join you in lobbying for nutritional additives to these things. And, kids in college these days simply don’t know the value of a dollar
Cheers, dearie.
March 9th, 2004 at 9:02 pm
Oy vey. Nine meds, sweetie? You’d think at the very least they could make some of them in a Flintstones vitamin type formula. Those were kind of tasty, if I recall correctly.
March 10th, 2004 at 7:40 am
Since I can’t get you on the phone or IM, I thought I’d take this opportunity to thank you ever so much for the coolest birthday gift ever… and I totally get you on the meds… between me, Lisa, and Austin there’s about 10 different ones on a regular basis… and we are all relatively healthy! major dinero…
I’m buying s block of Pfizer today, and I’ll lobby the board on the morphine/insulin idea…sounds like a winner!