TDK Café 1/1/2008

See what happens when reindeer get drunk…

instinct

A few halloweens ago I had a witch crashing into a tree and a sign below saying Don’t drink and drive! It was on the front cover of the local paper!

no, they probably won’t – it’s because it’s a Christian holiday 😀

2bpurring

Happy New Year to you too! Congatulations on BooBoo being the Kat’s cat of the day! What a wonderful way to start the New Year!

Congrats, 2b!

And, Karin, I wish – would make it all worth it!

Don’t know if it’s swimmers ear or not. Was told by the doc that it’s a fungal infection and he gave me a prescription which non of the pharmacies around here had the medicine he prescribed.

I called the doctors office to see what they could do and they were already closed so now I have to wait till tomorrow morning and get hold of the doc and find out if they can give me a different prescription or something.

I got some stuff for swimmers ear and it does seem to help some, but I think it’s to a point that the antibiotics are a necessity. It hit fast too, Saturday I was like “Gee, my ear kind of itches” and now I’m like ” OH MY F***ING GOD this s**ks!!!”

Yes, it all happens AFTER you quit your job that had health insurance and go back to school. But, it was my choice and I wouldn’t change it 🙂

yes – i’ve had swimmer’s ear before and I was tempted to end it with an ice pick, it hurt so much…(in my mind I came to the conclusion that the ice pick couldn’t hurt any worse and it would be a permanent solution…)

I have a heating pad, I was kind of afraid to try it because I wasn’t sure if it would do more harm than good. What I have been using is just Swim-Ear. It’s 95% alcohol so I figured it would at least dry my ears out.

My problem with health insurance is simple. I don’t think it should be handled by your employer or the government. We should have control over our insurance.

I don’t need (or want) the government taking care of me, and I don’t want my employer deciding what I get. I used to work for a health insurance company and most people don’t know that it’s the employer that decides what is covered and at what rate.

No, I think I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself. I don’t need, or want to be coddled by the system at all 🙂

I was going to go with a power drill – you know, man tools 😀

You can use the heating pad but turn it on low and cover it with a towel. You don’t want to lay on it for hours 🙂 but I think that, used for short periods, it might help relieve some of the discomfort (we were taught in nursing school never to use the word “pain” – like that would fool a patient!).

You were Navy? We were Army!