Oh, and maybe talk sometime Sunday? I'm going tubing tomorrow with StW.

~ma for Kato, Steph!

I really need to get off my ass and go to the grocery store, but now it's rush hour on a Friday when there's a (preseason) Saints game. Dur.

Oooh, look a shirt for Smonster.

Todd, all good vibes for the cataract surgeries!

Clear eyes, full heart, can't lose.

Clear eyes indeed!

~ma for Kato.

Yes, Sunday. Let's do it.

Woo hoo, smonster!!

Meanwhile, here is my pharmacy story: First, let me say that I had 3 prescriptions filled and one of them was the statin and another was a water pill. The pharmacy said that when they faxed my doctor for permission to refill the triamterine (water pill) - they got back that other med so they figured he was starting me on something new. So, I phoned my doctor's office and they checked and in my records it looks like the pharmacy told them they were out of triamterine and wanted an acceptable replacement.

Upshot: I called the pharmacy back to see if they had any triamertine and they do and they're going to call my doctor to get a prescription refill from him.

So, no tumor causing water pill for me.

Steph, ~ma for Kato. If it's squishy, it may just be a fatty tumor.

Best possible vibes for the dog Kato.

Bartleby has a growing (pun intended,sadly) array of these fatty tumors. We get them tested, they come back as lipomas.

Wishing the same for our virtual fur-friend.

I hope Kato is okay!

I'm on the phone with Mom, she's keeping an eye on E in the bath. I can hear him singing No More Monkeys on the Bed to himself.

Steph and Jilli, you KNOW ITA re:

Makes perfect sense to me. And what I don't get is -- why is Remeron okay in his eyes, but not Ambien? Remeron is a sedating drug, and it's an antidepressant (which I don't want), and it causes weight gain (which he doesn't want to see happen). Ambien? Just helps me sleep.

And I'm no dummy when it comes to drugs. I get that it can cause dependence, but if it's helping a legitimate medical condition, and the patient is okay with possible dependence, then who the fuck cares? That's like doctors who won't prescribe adequate pain meds for patients with chronic pain because they "don't want the patients to become addicted." Well, fuck that. It's chronic goddamn pain. Key word "chronic." It's not going away. So if it's not going away, then why not help your patient to have a decent quality of life with adequately managed pain?

I've made that decision -- without a 20 mgs of Ambien, I can't fall asleep unless I am up for 24-30 hours. I always run out before the end of the month, and I have found that if I take 15 mgs of Xanax an hours before I try to sleep -- usually at about 1, then I can fall asleep within 2 hours.

My doc seems ok so far about Rxing for me, but I have two more refills left on the Ambien and none on the Xanax.

I am not addicted to them -- I am addicted to fucking being able to fall asleep within 1 hour of going to bed, instead of 5-6 hours (or not at all.) I take my citalopram and estradiol like a good girl in the morning; am I addicted to HRT and AD's, too? GIMME THE EFFING SLEEP MEDS. So I can, ya know, sleep.

Sorry. Trigger.

smaonster, you know how happy I am for you, and I feel kinda proud sister-ish of you right now!!! You did it!!

Tons of nothing~ma for Kato.

TCG has been driving his one hour commute home for two hours and I'm not sure he's much closer to home than he was when he started.