Lee, how does your mother get the science so wrong? I mean, I am beginning to shake my head and kinda accept she's going to say stuff in a less than ideal way but she's got the science all screwed up too!

Or stop when they don't even have a sign and wave people through? *I* get to be the irritated one there.

People want to wave a left turn in front of them. Yeah, I have subscriptions with that one. I bypassed issues about ten minutes after I moved here.

There is some insurance company who even made a commercial about it. Cause we've got a different way of doing things here. Drives me BATTY. It's wrong. It's illegal. It's dangerous. And most of all it makes me really angry.

Dear Jeebus. And here I freaked out about the $45k bill we got.

Noah's stay alone, just for the 1:2 daily nursing in the NICU was $545,000, not including any treatments, food, therapies, surgeries, etc. And he was the cheap twin.

okay, then if you have CVS Caremark without any attendant CVS locations? That blows! The only thing that keeps my sanity in dealing with prescriptions is the nice pharmacy tech named Mohammed who understands the system and helps me navigate it. Cannot imagine dealing with the mail people because they set me on edge.

Centinela charges $21 for a single 200 mg Advil!

This is the kind of thing that makes me insane. When the hospital has to be buying in enormous bulk, how can they mark up the price 2,000% on something I can walk into any supermarket and buy?

According to hospital officials, its to compensate for deadbeats on Medicare/Medicaid. Yes. It is NUTS, though. Worse than military spending.

According to hospital officials, its to compensate for deadbeats on Medicare/Medicaid.

Sadly, it doesn't seem unrealistic that they would put it exactly that way.

Zorro the kitty doesn't at all resemble a fox - but he is very cute.

My town: I can walk to the library, restaurants, some shops (including the local art shop) and the post office. Sadly, all the actual grocery stores are all on the outskirts of town - and not walkable. I used to walk to work. . .but haven't done that in a while.

I do have a Walgreen's with a smallish grocery section that is totally walking distance.

Lee, how does your mother get the science so wrong?

You've seen what she does with genetics, right?

I didn't, in the end, tell her to STFU, but I did ask her if she realized it sounded like she was blaming me for the cancer, and I haven't heard anything from her since, so I guess it had the same effect.

Oh, and it looks like Zorro is coming to live with us on Saturday. [link]

Congratulations! He is adorable.