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Thoughts on the Day

  • Good – Spending the better part of Monday afternoon in a cubicle and conference room with a colleague working to diagnose and correct an issue with his systems.
  • Bad – Said colleague calls in sick on Tuesday with strep throat
  • Good – Getting effective treatment for your arthritis so that you can be a contributing member of society
  • Bad – Said treatment suppresses your immune system so that it doesn’t attack your body, so you’re more susceptible to infection from co-workers with strep throat.
  • Good – Going to bed Tuesday night feeling well
  • Bad – Waking up Wednesday morning with just about everything wrong with your respiratory system except pneumonia.
  • Not sure why I bother to have a primary physician anymore.  I haven’t been able to get in to see her when I’m sick for several months.  She’s wonderful for preventive things like physicals, but when I need her to help me get over the ick, there’s a two day wait.
  • The doc in the box, on the other hand, got me in and out in 30 minutes.
  • “Go to bed and rest” he says.  “You’ll feel better after some sleep” he says.
    • Irish Woman worked from home today, and her schedule was full of conference calls that require her to be on her computer in the bedroom all afternoon.
    • Sleeping on the couch was out because the new gutters were being installed, and the gutter guys were playing whack-a-mole with the old gutters.
    • Bluegrass was losing her mind trying to get through the front door to stomp a mudhole in someone.
    • I guess I’ll sleep when I’m dead.
  • NyQuil – For when moonshine just isn’t letting you breathe through your nose and sleep.
  • Girlie Bear has her first air rifle competition.  To say she’s excited might be a bit of an understatement.
  • Is it “feed a cold and starve a fever”, or is it “drown both in corn liquor and spicy food”?
  • ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

6 Comments

  1. MaddMedic's avatar

    MaddMedic

     /  October 10, 2012

    I like the corn liquor and spicy food remedy…But WTH do I know..I’m just a medic!!

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  2. derfreiheit's avatar

    derfreiheit

     /  October 10, 2012

    Feel better!

    Also, who did your gutters? I just got an absurd quote on mine.

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  3. Peter's avatar

    So . . . does this blog post qualify as ‘gutter journalism’?

    😉

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  4. Old NFO's avatar

    Drown both… Just sayin… Hope you feel better tomorrow!

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  5. ZerCool's avatar

    Misread that one: drown both in corn liquor and spicy food… I was going to drown the broth, which also makes sense to me. I hate broth.

    I changed docs recently to a large practice (since my PCP retired about five years ago), and their police is, “If you’re sick and need an appointment today, someone will see you. You may wait a while, and it probably won’t be your regular doctor, but we will get you in.” I can live with that.

    Feel better!

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  6. auntiejl's avatar

    My primary care doc’s office has a walk-in clinic attached to it. It’s a wonderful thing. I can get in there if I can’t just get an appointment, and all of my records are there. It’s a handy thing.

    Hope you feel better soon. Respiratory crap is no fun.

    I prescribe two cookies.

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