Memnison Journal

Yesterday was my first day out with both feet in REAL shoes; it was snowing in Chicago, and I had to go downtown to have my monthly all-day session with the leukemia docs and get my IVIG treatment.  The two dogs had torn up my sleep a lot the night before with getting up and [...]

This is going to be a big pain in the tush to the makers of crapola everywhere:
Starting Jan. 1, the pharmaceutical industry has agreed to a voluntary moratorium on the kind of branded goodies — Viagra pens, Zoloft soap dispensers, Lipitor mugs — that were meant to foster good will and, some [...]

This was a very odd Christmas for me; some really high points and low points. Some old traditions unexpectedly brought back, and some things mucked.  Julbord and full holiday report after the cut:

Went out and got prescription reading glasses today; my prescription is +1.75, and they work very nicely.  Worst part was slipping and falling HARD on the slick tile floor just inside the Vision Works store; as I’ve said before, with my cruddy balance, I learned long ago to fall down the best way I can [...]

*snifl* Went to bed around 8:45, and woke up at 10:30 when Susan came to bed - partly because I was stuffed up and couldn’t breathe well through the CPAP, and partly because of the fuss of Susan getting into place and the dog trying to get next to MOMMY for the night.  Looked around [...]

I have been having a LOT of problems with my eyes recently in regard to reading things, and set up an appointment a while back with the eye doc that the rest of the family sees.  (I’m the only one who didn’t need glasses to function; Susan had LASIK surgery a while back, and does [...]

I mentioned that Mere came down with Strep Throat on Thursday night; Friday day, Susan was getting sicker and sicker.  Both got last-minute-end-of-the-day runs to the doctors, and are now heavily medicated.  Mere is starting to perk up, and is feeling much better as of last night, and wants to go to roller-skating practive this [...]

I’ve been somewhat out of it for the last few days with a bad boil on my head - more or less where the other one was earlier this year.  It broke over the weekend, which the other one never really did, and I went in to the doctor and got the thing looked at [...]

Back from the meeting with the leukemia doc, and Susan’s totally worn out and has stumbled upstairs to bed to crash.  Her leg’s been really bad today; the doc says that it’s a type of knee problem, where you aggravate the knee and a cyst with excess fluid forms in the back; in her [...]

Yesterday, I had to leave the house and go over to a nearby lawn and garden store.  Susan and Mere have gotten turned on to a certain type of gardening, and wanted a set of heirloom seeds - we’re putting out three types of tomatoes, green beans, summer squash, and two types of beets (elsewhere [...]

I did some pushing back against the System today at the hospital, for two reasons - I wasn’t getting a lot of clear information as to departure and progress, and for some reason, I was once again getting the butt-end of someone’s suppositions that had nothing to do with my case at hand.
To wit: I [...]

I decided to give the nearby Walgreens’ a try for refilling the inkjet in my office’s cartridge, and - well, they didn’t reset the silly thing.  The printer thinks it’s the same *empty* cartridge, and is refusing to use it.   So I gotta go back…

I’ve been using a medication that has a delivery system that [...]