He said he has patients who eat right, exercise every day and still have gained 100 lbs or more taking Serqouel.
Tim didn't gain anything after almost 5 years on Seroquel (and he knows he's damn lucky in that regard). In the past year he went off Seroquel and has gained about 5 pounds. He asked me if I thought it was due to stopping Seroquel, and I told him it was probably due to eating 3 cartons (NOT pints) of ice cream a week as well as turning 45, and that most people's metabolisms slow down when they hit 30, not 45, so he'd better just appreciate the extra 15 years he got.
He responded by offering to get me ice cream since he was going to get his. The man is not self-conscious about his body at all. I admire that.
Do you think Hildy Johnson ever cried?
There is absolutely no end to the awesomeness of this.
I love me some Barney Frank.
OK, this is why we should not be trusted to our own IT work: I did the pre-work of seeing which of my email folders were not transferring properly between my desktop and the webmail (or whatever), but then I didn't back up all of the folders I should have, before switching to Outlook! For no good reason! Just because I didn't do it! And now I'm shit out of luck and have to re-organize my email again. Or wait a couple of weeks and get it back out of the Entourage data, but it's not really THAT important? Meh.
I am so goddamn sad he's retiring.
But hey! We could get another Kennedy in the House! @@
In theory, a sloth should be a lot less work than a puppy. I mean, it's not like you'd have to walk it, right?
Couldn't you just hang a branch over a drop cloth?
I'm going miss Barney Frank.
Wow, I have no idea what I'd submit for this challenge. And that makes me sad. I'm mentally walking through my apartment, and there are a lot of things I love, but nothing that sets itself apart. That's bumming me out.
Warning - rant ahead:
So I hit the trifecta of pain in my leg this weekend/week. I started having problems with my foot (I've had similar ones before) on Saturday, but I could still get around OK enough to walk into town and do some errands and get lunch. When I got back home, I noticed my ankle was twinge-ing a little, but didn't give it much thought. I dosed on ibuprofen and spent a quiet night at home.
Sunday, the ankle still hurt a little, as did the foot, but still not enough to ping me. I again walked into town, got brunch and watched the first half of the Pats game. When I got home, the ankle felt a little worse.
You see where I'm going with this.
When I got up off the couch later that night, I could barely hobble. Also, I noticed my knee was starting to feel a little twinge-y as well. Finally warning lights go off.
Come Monday morning I'm even more hobbled, the knee is now definitely an issue, and so I have to call in sick. Because of how we remote in to work, I can't really work from home because I have a Mac (I have to request a laptop when I have an on-call week, and they won't issue a long-term one for this particular reason). This makes me feel bad because, a) I'm a little stir-crazy after spending the last two days relatively housebound, b) I called in sick last Tuesday (after a Monday holiday) because I was down with some fever-y/ache-y thing from Sunday to Tuesday, and c) this is now the second weekend I haven't been able to do much of anything I wanted to because I'm incapacitated.
This morning, the ankle and the foot felt better, though not 100% by any means, but now the knee is hobbling me. So I'm out another day and going even stir-crazier.
I'd really love some less-pain-ma because if I need to call in a third day, I need a doctor's note and getting to a doctor is going to be as difficult as getting to work if the knee hasn't improved. Also, I hate taking this many doses of ibuprofen for this long a period.
None of these symptoms are new (I have a number of joint problems), but I've never had them cascade this quickly before. It's like a perfect storm.
