Apr 28 2002
Smart pills
Today I slept. After I went to the pharmacy and had the prescriptions filled.
The pharmacist substituted Hydrocodone for the Vicodin. Insurance, you know. Generic is cheaper. The label on the little brown bottle that contains the tablets says “take one tablet by mouth every 4 hours for pain.” I am glad that they stipulated by mouth, because otherwise who knows where I may have tried to insert them?
My other question is how did they make these tablets so they would last exactly four hours? I took a pill this morning, waited 30 minutes for it to kick in, and went to bed. Exactly 3.5 hours later, my shoulder shouted to my brain that it was time for another pill. My brain then woke me up to tell me it was time for another pill. I got up, took another pill, waited another 30 minutes for it to take effect, and went back to bed. Exactly 3.5 hours later, my shoulder shouted to my brain that it was time for another pill….. and so it went.
Shoulder does feel a bit better, though. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to take a pill, fart about for 30 minutes, and go to bed. Productivity. Gotta love it.
One Response to “Smart pills”
damn robots are everywhere! sure, they make you feel better now, but in days, months, years, who knows, you’ll be…umm…doing something you might not want to do, but the robots (and the evil health care industry that infected you with them) demand of you. fight the robots and take it like a man! intolerable pain makes you hardcore.