My last doctor appointment revealed that if I didn’t get the weight down, I’d be taking metamorphin or melaminemorphine or Metformin to block the sugars in my blood. Before I go any further, I’ll just say that was nearly 30lbs ago and I’m doing fine, according to my diligent monitoring. However, I’ve been using the old glucose monitor I got from the Woman’s College a few years back<\/a>. A week ago, I ran out of test strips – the little plastic blood drinking strips that suck up blood into the vampyric monitor. No problem! I’ll just go to my pharmacist and order some – which come 100 in a box. At nearly $1\/per strip. Holy what the foosh mother fooshing what?<\/p>\n

After some choppy communication, I got it covered by my insurance electronically, via my doctor and some faxes back and forth. After the paperwork, my pharmacist brings over a huge bag with not only the test strips I need, but a huge, ugly, “new” monitor – basically the old one with more colours on the faceplate. <\/p>\n

“Uhm. If I have to get a new monitor, can I get that one?<\/a>” (Warning: loud Flash site, but you need to experience it to be cool). It’s a smooth, pebble like black puck with only three buttons and a huge backlit display. Apple design sensibility trickles down into the field of healthcare. Actually it’s more like a Sony MP3 player but you get the picture: it’s so sexy you want to pour baby oil all over it and do things to it. <\/p>\n

“Oh that one?” my pharmacist says, “Yeah, it’s kinda cool, eh?” <\/p>\n

SharkBoy perks up. “Why the hell do you need to have the coolest gadgets all the time?”<\/p>\n

“Dude, if I have to do this shit daily, I’m going to fucking rock it<\/em>!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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