Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in complaints, healthcare, money, oddities on Jan 9th, 2012
Health insurance is convoluted. It’s hard to understand when you don’t utilize it; it’s easier to understand when you do utilize it, but there are still plenty of weird things about it. One example from the past year.
I saw a physician in April. The bill was submitted to my insurance company a week later. I [...]
Posted in healthcare, life in general on Feb 2nd, 2010
General anesthesia is total unconsciousness.
I’ve had a couple minor and one major surgery done over the past fifteen years, the last of which evoked some questions from family and friends. A handful of procedures doesn’t make me an expert by any means, but I decided to document it best as I can remember. So here [...]
Posted in healthcare on Aug 19th, 2009
About two months ago, I started swimming.
It had been a long time since I’d been in a pool. Weekends spent floating around or playing volleyball in a backyard pool are one thing, but swimming laps according to a set training regimen is a different matter altogether. Once you learn how to swim and are half-decent [...]
Posted in healthcare, life in general on Oct 28th, 2008
A smart man keeps telling me that “healing takes time.” I’ve found this to be the case, especially since I suffered a back injury recently. It’s all cliche, but you really don’t miss things until they’re gone. In my case, you don’t miss having a functional and healthy spine until you don’t have the use [...]
Posted in healthcare, life in general, money on Oct 18th, 2008
Scheduling an appointment with a health care provider is a large pain in the ass. I now know why I need to schedule recurring appointments with these providers whether or not I’ve got a specific malady that needs to be addressed. Whether it’s a physician or dentist or any other specialist, it’s got to be [...]
Posted in food, healthcare, in the news on Jun 12th, 2008
How the hell didn’t I hear about this salmonella in the tomatoes debacle? I must not be paying attention to CNN when I’m at the gym or maybe it was first announced on that one day when I missed the gym. Missed, like I was looking the other way and it snuck past me. Skipped [...]
Posted in healthcare, life in general, plans on Apr 7th, 2008
When I woke up this morning I felt rested and ready to get up, then I looked at my alarm clock.
3:02
Despite feeling just fine — my brain alert — I decided that it was entirely too early to start the day, having been asleep for a few hours. I rolled over and got a sip [...]
Posted in culture, healthcare, idiots, parenting, youth on Mar 20th, 2008
There are a lot of kids in my community that are spoiled rotten these days by their parents.
As I was running out to do some errands the other day I saw no less than nine cars parked on the side of the road, whose occupants were all waiting for their kids to be dropped off [...]
Posted in healthcare, life in general on Jan 8th, 2008
I’ll wait out headaches and deal with muscle ache and a host of other ailments. I head to the doctor once in a while if some problem doesn’t right itself after a while. I don’t usually medicate unless I’m a complete mess and can’t function, such as the other day when my nose just would [...]
Posted in complaints, healthcare, idiots, privacy on Jan 7th, 2008
When I awoke today it was clear that I was going to need to buy some cold medication. Weis opens at 6, so I drove over there on my way to work. It turns out that the “good stuff” with pseudoephedrine isn’t on the shelf anymore thanks to the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005. [...]
Posted in boozing, food, healthcare, music, things i'd like to see on Dec 3rd, 2007
I don’t really care if people smoke or not, but it does irritate me to come home after a night out and have to throw my clothes outside or start a load of laundry immediately to prevent the house from smelling like stale cigarette smoke. Not to the point of not going out, but enough [...]
Posted in complaints, culture, healthcare, things i'd like to see on Dec 2nd, 2007
Reading about that lingering bar smoke aroma that emanates from our clothes, it reminded me that I left Bateman’s Friday evening, my clothes reeking of stale cigarette smoke. I was only in there for 30 minutes and I didn’t see a single person actively smoking. It was all residual. This is a sharp contrast to [...]
Posted in cars, food, healthcare, life in general on Nov 20th, 2007
I finally got back to the gym today after a brief hiatus. I was briefly worried over the weekend when I found myself short of breath, but after a good amount of cardio this evening I feel much better and assured that my lung capacity is alright. I worked my abs proper, such that they [...]
Posted in healthcare, housing on Nov 19th, 2007
Joel Spolsky recommended a neat mashup today, rating the “walkability” of an address according to how many places of interest (stores, restaurants, etc) are nearby. The area surrounding my house has a Walk Score of 23. That’s pretty low, but if I use the address of a house nearby the entrance to my community I [...]
Posted in boozing, culture, healthcare, humor on Nov 13th, 2007
Over the weekend I was described as “a binge drinking, promiscuous enabler.” Even there were no ugly people present, it reminded me of the t-shirt design to the right. The comment was made in good fun and I’m still chuckling about it a few days later. Does that mean that I enable promiscuity? Or are [...]
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