it shouldn't be the patient's job to contact the two professionals, pharm and MD, who should be dealing directly with each other

Can you tell this to both my pharmacy and my doctor? Because I can't remember the last time I've had a prescription filled same day without my intervention--it's at least two calls and an email before anything happens. It's ridiculous.

Citicard called me with a fraud alert yesterday, for a purchase from canadadrugs.com. It's at least the third time in two years I've shopped with them. I'm way more worried about the kinda dicey looking site I ordered my region-free Blu Ray player from.

we used to give Mac peanut butter in a kong toy

This totally made me do a double-take because I was imagining msbelle's son getting peanut butter out of a kong toy, and I thought, boy, these new-fangled therapists have some interesting ideas...

Right. Cashmere's dog. Sort of the way I am totally mystified when anyone's pet gets fleas.

Also, did you know I type with 2 spaces between sentences and then go back and manually remove them? I was trained to leave two spaces and cannot untrain myself even though I don't touch-type.

Can you tell this to both my pharmacy and my doctor? Because I can't remember the last time I've had a prescription filled same day without my intervention--it's at least two calls and an email before anything happens. It's ridiculous.

If I thought I had any standing with either of them, I would. Because that's the way it's supposed to work. You've got very clear orders from your doctor, and if the pharmacy has any issues with them they should damn well contact the doctor to clarify, and if it's chronic pain meds they should be on top of it right away, and they shouldn't need to do it every damn time. I don't know why they're so bullshitty with you.

Sleepless night w/ baby --> feel like I've failed as a parent (hormones + sleep dep = IRRATIONALITY) --> taking on onerous tasks this morning just to prove I can!

So after being married nearly 10 years, DH and I finally have a joint checking account to pay our household bills from and I've spent the last few hours setting as many bills as I can to auto-pay. Unless I've missed one (entirely possible, see above re: sleep deprivation) I'm pretty sure the only thing we have to pay manually now is our credit card, since the auto-payment will only cover the minimum due. (And at our current level of debt, paying only the minimum will have us paid off in roughly 10 thousand years, which I understand is not considered a fiscally responsible choice?)

Aw, Jess, if I was just a bit closer I would come over and amuse Aeryn while you sleep. I remember those nights all too well.

Sorry about the sleep deprivation. I remember some of those nights spent in the rocking chair.

Eh, it is what it is. At least the second time around I know this phase will eventually end.

Naturally, now that it's daytime she's been napping peacefully for three hours. I should probably wake her up so she doesn't get her days and nights completely switched, but honestly, I'm too tired to care.

The current state of the Web:

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At least the second time around I know this phase will eventually end.

That is the saving grace.

I just got my Penzey's spice delivery--yay! Opening this box was like Christmas, with all the little bottles all wrapped up in paper and wondering what was in the next wrapping. I did order several empty bottles for the spices I have in envelopes at home, so a lot of those little packages were blanks, but that's okay. They tossed in a free sample of their Bouquet Garni, a nice extra, as well as the freebie Minced Garlic I ordered, and the bag of bay leaves was much larger than I imagined it would be.