Walgreens is my new home

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Walgreens has become my new store of choice. I must go there at least once a day. I usually have to go there to pick up some new prescription and they have so much other stuff, I just end up doing all my shopping there rather than make a second trip to the grocery store. In Addition to everything else, the Prednisone that I'm taking makes you hungary ALL THE TIME, so I have a lot of weird cravings. Things I have purchased at Wal-Greens in the past 2 weeks:

Pop Tarts (Starwberry and Cherry)
Cereal
Milk
"Milk and Ceral Bars" (These were way gross)
Peanut Lovers Chex Mix (Also Gross)
Tomato Soup
Bread
Cheese (Grilled Chesse and Tomato Soup Cures all.)
Chocolate Covered Almonds
"Heat and Eat" Mac and Cheese
"Breath-Right" Mentholated Strips
Milk of Mangnesia (Not recomended)
Maloxx (Highly Recommended)
Rolaids (The Ole chemo gives some kind of wicked heartburn.)
Stool Softener (WOO HOO!)
Kleenex
Nail Clippers
Carmex
Kleenex
Robitussion that made me way loopy and hallicinate
NOTE TO SELF do not mix Robitussin with Chemo Drugs
Ambisol (Chemo gives you mouth sores)
Bottled Water
Sprite


Here in OK they have a place called "Drug Warehouse" that we don't have in Texas. I thought I'd go in there yesterday since it looked bigger and nicer than Wal-Greens. That was a mistake, it's like a crappy Wal-Greens combined with a Dollar Store. Just say no.

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If you were a woman I would think you were pregnant with a shopping list like that. And you're right tomato soup and grilled cheese is a cure all.

Love Walgreens, but you can buy cheese there? wow. I think there's a Drug Warehouse in my neck of the woods. It scares me.

i also wasn't aware that walgreen's sold cheese. i must never make it that far into the store. i can't go into a walgreen's without buying some kind of lipstick or nail polish. happens every damn time. i went there a few days ago to buy a heating pad for my back, which has been feeling like it might snap at any moment lately, and ended up with a heating pad and some red nail polish. like i don't have any of that already.

also....oooh...i really want to play evil genius. is it good?
have you played katamari damacy yet?

I'm so behind everybody on the games, probably owing to the fact that I don't have a game system. But I want to play Fable now.

yeah, I usually end up with some sort of lipstick or nailpolish after a visit to walgreens as well.

any of you folks from OK remember that "Get the best of us everydaaaaaaaaaay, May's Drug and Drug Warehouse" or something like that commercial. There's an annoying girl singing all happy like. Everyone thinks my cousin is her. It's funny we'll be at a restauruant and some random person will come up to her and ask "Are you that Drug Warehouse girl?"

Evil Genius is really fun and at the same time really annoying. I had to read the Internet FAQ to figure out how to do anything. It is really addictive though. Too bad you don't live closer you could borrow it. What's katamari damacy? I just rented shadow hearts:covenant but I haven't played it yet. Monster rancher 4 entertained me for a day or 2 but it wasn't in-depth enough for me.

Pred is another steroid they give people with Addison's Disease (what my dog had). Any of those types of steroids tend to make you put on weight, so it's no wonder you are hungry. They also use it to treat asthma.

Try filling up on fruits and veggies - you get full with lots of fiber, hardly any fat, low caloric intake, and better (in other words, NATURAL) ingredients than a Pop Tart.

Also look into holistic healing. There are many alternative ways of fighting the big C that you can use in addition/combination with your chemo. Acupressure/accupuncture, meditation, herbal mixtures.

And doing organic dairy too - you should consider that, please.

But prednisone rocks. My house was so clean, and I think I probably sent you a thank you note for the balloon and kite.

dude, isn't like grocery shopping at walgreens like HIGHLY expensive?

but if you need conveiniece more than anything, yeah, it's not that bad, tho

I was eating tons of fruits and vegatalbes the Prednisoze still made me hungry though. I eat a pop tarts in the morning before my "drug-cocktail" so i don't get queasy. (Okay I don't get AS queasy, I think i've been queasy for over a month now.)

Dude,
I've been out of touch for a while. Long enough to get kicked off the ring even...

Good to hear you're holding up well. Phlome paints the picture a little less attractively than you, but you do have a gift for under-exxageration or whatever you called it.

Your writing technique.

Anyway - appreciate the play-by-plays.

Regret that our education in chemo is at your expense, but we could apparently not hope for a better test subject now could we?

You're upbeat as all hell, and backed by teeming throngs of supporters and well-wishers, and people that are all warm and fuzzy about you....so it's a cinch that in spite of the challenges ahead for you, chemosabie is fucking toast.

He won't even get a goddamned saving throw.

BTW - do tumors possess gender? If so, do the genders vary, and are they of necessity the same as, or different than, their host?

I ask because I think of all disease as decidedly male. I think it's because I put a male face on most demons, and I'm convinced that all underwater caves speak with a male voice rife with menace, but that's neither here nor there.

I don't seek authoritative answers by the way. Merely discussion.

-knats

I'll second putting a male face on disease.

thank you wickett, but if you don't say why you fancy the idea of male diseases, we'll have to assume that you're doing it as a form of male-bashing. which only bunny is allowed to engage in with any degree of impugnity.

so do tell. what's male about a disease? [other than the smelly ones, like tuberculosis, and leprosy, which are fairly obviously male]

I always thought as TB as more feminine. "The consumption" sounds fem to me for some reason. "The consumption...she's got me" something like that. It would take me a bit to try and assign genders to disease. I think I normally think of them as genderless.

The Drug Warehouse girl went to high school with a friend of mine. She is apparently a bitch. I will concur that she is a bitch because now I can't stop hearing that commercial.

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