Entries from December 2007 ↓

Just caught this on tv, and it is so worth blogging.

"Abilify may control symptoms of bipolar mania and reduce the risk of manic relapse…

Ok, so far so good, seems like a thing worth treating.

"When taking Abilify call your doctor if you have high fever, stiff muscles and confusion, as these may be signs of a life-threatening reaction."

Life threatening? That'd suck. But I suppose there are plenty of medications out there that, if you have a bad reaction, can mess you up.

"Or if you have muscle movements that can not be stopped, as these may become permanent."

Umm…that's not cool.

"High blood sugar has been reported in some patients taking Abilify. In extreme cases this can lead to coma, or death."

Watch blood sugar….check. Got it. I think.

"Elderly people with dementia should not take Abilify due to an increased risk of death or stroke."

Stop saying death! It's not good to say "may cause death" repeatedly when advertising your product!

"Some people feel faint upon standing. Other side effects include impaired judgement and motor skills, and trouble swallowing."

Look on the bright side, he didn't say "anal leakage."

My daughter, 5, is working on a reading game called Headsprout. It tries very hard to give her meaningful things to read, based on the sounds she's worked on, so you tend to get very simple stories about characters who have otherwise meaningless names like "Vee" and "San": "See Vee, see San, see San and Vee in the van on the sand." That sort of thing. Each character started out as a space alien, but in the later books they became animals.

It just clicked with me the other day when I was reading a book with her that one of the characters is a monkey. And his name is "Fling."

Somebody at Headsprout has a sense of humor. I will wait until my daughter is old enough before I explain to her what monkeys are famous for flinging. Maybe during a trip to the zoo.

So my son sleeps with about 5 stuffed animals in his bed. When he was younger my wife would wait until he was asleep, then go in and take them all out so he won't suffocate. I never really thought it was that big of a risk, but typically guilt would get the better of me and I'd go take them out before I went to bed, closer to midnight.

Lately I noticed that, when I went back into the room, the animals were already on the floor. I assumed my wife was doing it, when she'd come home late and I knew for a fact she went right to bed. Animals still on the floor. It then dawned on me that he was apparently doing it himself. Not in an angry, "I don't want to go to sleep so I'm throwing things" sort of a way, since I never heard a peep. He just knew that the animals don't stay in there to sleep, so he throws them out.

Recently I messed up his little brain when he woke up from a nap too early and I tried to get him to go back to sleep. Thinking that I would give him some things to play with as he drifted off, I laid his head down on the blanket and then started putting the animals in the crib with him. He sat right up, saying "Back! Back! Back!" and putting the animals back where they belong. Daddy's mistake, I had just given the signal that it was indeed time to get up. Didn't think that one through.

This has become something of a game in the morning, because I will pick up the animals from the floor and offer them to him. "Back!" he will say, and place the animals in their appointed positions. He cannot do the blanket or the large duck, but it is cute and helpful nonetheless. Once everything is back in place, he wants to get out.

I tried taking him out of bed first and letting him collect the animals (so I don't have to keep bending to get them), but he is too small to reach them back into the crib, so I would have to pick him up each time so he could fling them back into the crib. Work for Daddy, either way.

This morning it dawns on me — I have a 3 yr old. She follows me into the room this morning, where my son is standing in his crib waiting for us. "Give your brother back his animals," I tell her. And lo and behold, it works! She gets the animals, hands them to him, he puts them back. And I don't have to lift a finger.

Fatherhood is awesome.

Yeah, I plan to go back. But in the middle of christmas season after dropping a grand on a new tv, even a "cheap" $300 Tivo box is an expense I can put off for a few months. I'd like to pick up a high def DVD player too – that Bladerunner Final Cut is lookin' sweet.

I ended up switching back to Tivo. The comcast DVR is the pits, especially if you're switching from something as nice as Tivo. Besides, the new Tivo HD boxes are so cheap now.

You'll switch back when you click through 10 menus to record a show. Also, trying to fast forward though commercials you'll find you can't "time it" correctly because the box doesn't respond fast enough.

I love this song!! OMG It rocks!

And by that I mean the company.  I've upgraded to HD finally, but rather than invest all that money in a new TV and a several more hundred in a new Tivo unit, I decided to give the Comcast DVR service a shot.  Well, I have two Tivo units so I called up to cancel the one that would no longer be in use.  It was a long wait to talk to the first person, who then said "Hang on and I'll transfer you up" and another long wait, and I was beginning to get frustrated at how difficult they make it.  No amount of "Hey you can avoid the wait by going online" helps when they don't offer you a deactivate option online.

But then the lady gets on the phone and asks me why I'm cancelling.  I explain that I'm trying out the Comcast service, can't really afford to invest in a new box right now, and to tell you the truth I'll probably be back in 6 months. 

"How about we don't bill you for the next 6 months while you try it out?" she says.

Deal.

I like Tivo.

this song is good..for pop-rock… and i know everybody will loved it. and batch of CHRIS DAUGHTRY of AMERICAN IDOL, are the most famous and had more popular songs than the other the american idol finalize…

I'm loving this final season, the episodes are really good. I wish they did more with Kelso's upcoming retirement, though, instead of just making him the random comedy guy.  Remember in the early seasons when people feared him?  The whole RateYourDoc.org thing was a little silly, although the site does work. 

You've got something on your face.
  What?
Me.  Oh god, I feel like such a hobag but I'm so glad I did it.

I do declare, spendin special relationary time with my special lady makes me feel happier than a bullfrog in a beetle bin.
  Why are you talking like that?
Because I'm smitten with my girlfriend Lady, and this is my smitten voice.

You guys are playing Smelly Belly?

You guys aren't even friends, why do you spend so much time competing over everything?
  Because we're men, and that is what men do.
(And now a quick look to Turk to see if that is what men do.)

Don't forget I crushed you at Find The Vein In The Junkie.

Do you know the muffin man, the muffin man…if anybody needs me I'll be in my office going to town on these bad boys.

Why are you guys so obsessed with reliving everything you've won?
  Because we're winners, that's what winners do.
(Back to Turk for confirmation…..Damnit!)

If along the way you all become paranoid and overly competitive, happy birthday to me.

Dr. Kelso I became a doctor to save lives.  Heal wounds.  And occasionally to drop the MD bomb to pull hot tail in bars.
  You know what else works?  Cosmonaut.  Thank me later.
(Noted!)

I reckon my lady's as pretty as a porcupine on rollerskates.

That's what we smitten folk call a "metty for".  You little lady have a head as empty as a whipporwhill in a tub of moonshine.

Well I would say love is blind, but we both know that isn't true.  My love for Enid falls a percentage point for every pound she gains.  Since our wedding day I am one hundred and thirty six percent less in love with her.
  You're really gonna comment on your wife's weight when you've got muffins stuffed down your pants?
I like them warm.

You should have invited me, I can cry on cue.  Say "dead puppies."

He's still gonna give me a good review, see we're DBFFs.  Diabetic best friends forever.

Now I have to take your laptop from you as I've deemed you just too darned stupid to use it.  You see those bell peppers that you're munching?  They aren't gonna do a truckload of jack against the cancer raging inside your body.  I've only been a doctor for some twenty years, and the person who wrote that wikipedia entry also authored the Battlestar Galactica episode guide so what the heck do I know?  But if you feel like living, page me.

That's what she likes, he's pretending to be normal.
  NO WAY!  Too much?

If you took too many benzodiazepines, you could have died.
  Then that's exactly what I'll do next time.  Grape?

Oh, it's called Rate Your Doc dot org. I'm on a completely different more awesome site. 

How could I be last, all my patients are dead!
  Doug, remember that guy you put in the morgue drawer, turns out he was just heavily sedated?

Someone named Coco Bosco wrote that she's sick of me saying "Dat's what I'm talking about."  But sometimes dat is what I'm talking about!

If you like her, you can't keep lying to her.
  Hogwash.  Lie forever, it's the natural form of communication between men and women. Hell, Enid still thinks it's too snowy to go outside.  I spray the windows with shaving cream.  Her wheelchair tears up the lawn.

Remember when you were treating that teenager and you broke his ipod?  You felt so guilty you let him take you to prom.
  Yeah well I left early and I barely put out.

What's with the jumpsuit?
  First of all we're gonna make it not a jumpsuit. Shirt belt pants.

I'm not like normal people.  I don't have super powers, but I'm working on it.  For instance watch me move this pen. It worked at home, I dunno, maybe my table is slanted. Um, anyway, in my spare time I enjoy stuffing animals.  Usually with other animals. For instance a badger will hold five squirrels, a squirrel will hold most of a cat.  A mouse will hold a shrew and a vole.  You get the idea, circle of life.  I have broken the sound barrier, but you must never ask me how.  I don't believe in the moon, I think it's just the back of the sun. 
  Hello, train wreck.

Whaddya say, 23?
  (Oh my god, another new nickname?   But what does it mean?  Play it cool 23, you'll find out eventually.)  That's what they call me.  Why do they call me that?

There's nothing you can do.
  What if I let you beat me at basketball while the nurses watch?
Can we yell White Lightning whenever I make a basket?
  We always do.
Back in.

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Crap. I have the same problem.