All y'all only children? You didn't miss anything. Trust.

Well, you are missing nieces and nephews but that's about it.

And my niecelet is going to be stranded in Seattle tonight. Instead of flying into Palm Springs where I'd have seen her. (She's getting in around 10 and my brother is getting her a hotel room, she won't need rescuing.)

we spent most of the day in the er , but the pain seems to be under control now. a tad unfun, but better so it is all good

beth, have they figured out how to help Matt?

ETA, sorry I am tired enough to have much reading comprehension. I hope now that the pain is under control that it stays under control.

Everything looks good now, he is much more where he should be

Oh, that's good!

Ack beth, I'm glad the pain is under control now, but I can't imagine how tylenol would have cut it.

There's liquid Tylenol with codeine; was it that?

that might have done it, but it wasn't prescribed.

Why did it need to be liquid? I'm a little confused.

It's weird in general that a prescription painkiller (eg, codeine) wasn't prescribed after a surgical procedure. But why prescribe liquid tylenol when OTC pills exist? Very odd.

t edit But Tim's doctor prescribed 800 mg ibuprofen for his old-man arthritic toe, which also makes no sense when OTC ibuprofen exists and one can take 800 mg of OTC ibuprofen (which Tim was doing before the doctor visit).

I guess I just don't understand prescribing OTC meds. Unless Matt can't take pills, in which case prescribing a specific formulation (liquid) that he can actually swallow makes sense.

When I was taking prescription naprosyn for my fibroids, my doctor asked if I had a problem taking pills. When I told him I didn't, he told me to just get some over the counter Aleve and take 3 of them, because a 30 pill bottle of the prescription stuff cost $12, but a 100 pill bottle of over the counter stuff cost $8.