I can open my own drug store! It’ll be just like CVS.
I can open my own drug store because that’s what it looks like on my desk.
5 bottles of prescription drugs +
4 bottles of OTC drugs +
2 eyedrops +
1 contact cleaner +
2 boxes of contact solution +
1 chap stick +
2 bottles of lotion +
2 deodorants =
My very own drug store.
What would you like to buy today?
Yes, yes, while I’m wrote about calorie intake in one post, I will share news of how you can get more food in another post.
Jamba Juice is offering a Buy 1 Get 1 Free coupon to you if you sacrifice your email address. Yes, yes, quite a marketing move. I would know, we (the company I work for) always try to think of new ways to get new email addresses for our customer database.
Anyway, its a pretty good deal and you don’t have much to lose. Heck, if you really don’t want them to spam you, set up a temporary email address at Mailinator. It’s very simple. All you have to do is make up a user name (be creative so no one else will use it), use that as your email address @mailinator.com, go to the Mailinator website and check whatever email address you made up! Simple as that.
Offer ends 07/30/08.
Enjoy!
In New York City, a new law was passed that requires chain restaurants to post the calorie content of their foods in the same size and font as the price next to the price. What a brilliant idea! They should do that EVERYWHERE. When you go to Starsucks you might think twice about grabbing that chocolate chip cookie which contains 470 calories or blueberry muffin for 500 calories. I definitely think people would make more conscious decisions about what to eat if they saw the amount of calories the foods they frequently ate contained. At some places, salads even have over 1,000 calories! Ha..and you thought you were eating healthy! This could be the next great step in helping America become less obese.
I just spent the last half hour splashing cold water into my eyes. I idiotically put something that warns to “NOT put directly in eye” DIRECTLY INTO MY EYE. The result – burning. Very very painful burning. But of course, I did NOT know that you couldn’t put it directly into your eye.
I went to the optometrist to pick up my new lenses today. I’m going back to gas permeable lenses. Normally, gas permeable has two solutions. One is a cleaner and the other is the conditioner. When you take the lens out of your eye, you rub it with the cleaner, and rinse with water. Then you put the contact in your case and fill the case with the conditioner. When you want to put them on again, you take them straight out of the case and put them in your eye. That is a NORMAL circumstance.
I had my new contacts to put in and the assistant asked what solution I wanted. Boston or Optimum. I’ve had history of allergic reaction to Boston so I opted for the latter. It had 3 bottles in the box. One cleaner, one rewetting eyedrops, and one storing and disinfecting solution. Ok, its obvious, put the last option onto the lens and insert into eye. BAD IDEA! My eye hurt so freaking bad. My eyes were just watering and it was so painful. So I was like, oh maybe I’m just not used to hard contacts. Where are the rewetting drops? Okay, put that in, BURNING! After about 5 minutes of me being hunched over holding my eye, I decided, maybe this solution is no good. Perhaps I should try the Boston. BUT, I had already put the other solution on the left lens. So what do I do? I put the Boston solution OVER that one in hopes to wash it off. Then I put that one in my eye. More burning. After I’ve calmed down for a bit they take me into the room to wait for the doctor. Little did I know that for new lenses they want you to wait around 15 minutes to get acquainted. Those were the most uncomfortable 15 minutes EVER. I was going to die. I needed some eye drops badly. My right eye felt all cloudy and both eyes were just painful and bloodshot. So the doc comes in and I ask for eye drops. It felt much better. Then he checked my eyes. He thought it was weird that it was so uncomfortable and said that he would brb and disinfect my lenses again and try a different solution. He came back to show me what he used. And I’m like, no not that. I just used that. And he said what did you do? I explained and he said you’re not supposed to put that in your eye! You have to rinse off that stuff with water first!
Well, great! Now what am I supposed to do. He told me I didn’t damage my eye so that’s good. So I took off those freaking lenses and put my soft contacts back on and they burn too. In fact my eye still hurt. The right one was a little cloudy so I kept putting more and more water in it.
Why did that dumb contact solution make theirs different like the others. I guess I should have read the directions, but they usually (I guess not anymore) operate the same.
Anyway, I hope my vision clears up. I took off my contacts for now. I should rinse my eye out some more.
The more I consciously think about eating healthier and less, the more I want to eat.
There were new signs posted up in each stall of the bathroom at work today. It went something like this:
Need Your Help in Keeping the Bathrooms Clean
Thank you for your cooperation.
Do NOT remove this sign.
WOW. Are we not all adults here? Don’t people know that toilet paper goes in the toilet and feminine products don’t?! Apparently not, because this is not the first time I’ve seen a sign like that!
Also, the last item is HILARIOUS!!! I feel the urge to write next to that item, “who on earth is compelled to STAND ON the toilet seat?” And it is kind of odd, DID someone get hurt while standing on the toilet seat? They must have or else why would that be on the note. And even if you did get hurt while standing ON the toilet seat, why would you tell anyone?!
Weirdos.
My vision is probably worse than anyone you know. If I didn’t have my glasses or contacts on, I would have to put my face probably about 3 inches from whatever I’m looking at. I kid you not, inches. I wouldn’t be able to identify faces, heck I probably wouldn’t even know a person was there. Blobs of colors.
I’ve only discovered one semi good thing about having blurry vision. Although, its not entirely good if you think about the basis of it.
I went to the optometrist today and of course my eyes got worse. Every person that looked at my chart (2 helpers and the doc) all remarked about my intense prescription. Turns out I need to go back to the gas permeable lenses. The soft ones just aren’t cutting it. The only good thing about the soft ones were that they were more comfortable and cheaper. However, the clarity of my vision is greatly lowered when using soft lenses. Anyway, I need the gas perm ones because I need them to press down on my cornea and shape it. Gas perm lenses aren’t cheap. As they were about to damage my wallet, the guy decided that he should call the insurance company because he thought that maybe my prescription was bad enough to deem it a “medical necessity” for contacts. Wow that’s intense. What do you know?! It is. It is a medical necessity that I have contacts so the insurance is paying for ALL of it. Normally they would only cover $100. So I ended up saying a few hundred dollars!! Woo hoo! That’s the only good thing. Though its actually kind of a good and bad thing. Good cause I got a great deal. Bad because its a “medical necessity” isn’t very good.
It also turns out that my glasses suck! I always thought they were clearer than my contacts. Little did I know, if I covered up my right eye, the left eye is completely blurry!!! I’m straining to use only my right eye because frankly the left one is useless. Maybe that’s why its getting worse.
Since I got such a great deal on my contacts. Maybe I should fork out the ridiculous $400 or so to get glasses. Yeah $400 – that’s the minimum. The guy asked if I was going to Asia anytime soon. He told me they could make the lens thinner than they could here and for cheaper. Dang, but maybe $400 is worth helping my vision.
I’m secretly wondering if I’m going to go blind in my left eye.
The recommended daily allowance for sodium is roughly 2,400 milligrams. Right off the bat, it sounds like a lot! What makes it more interesting is that if you observe the food you eat (especially if you eat out all the time), you’ll realize you might be eating close to that amount of at least half of that in one meal! I was going to go to Rubios for lunch today and was browsing at the menu online when I got curious and decided to check out the nutrition facts. Typically I’d get a burrito or maybe a few tacos. The amount of sodium in one burrito (depending on the type) ranges from 1700-2500 milligrams of sodium!! So then I thought, well let’s look at the salads, there must not be nearly as much sodium in those range from 1400-2200 mg of sodium! Ok, ok, so maybe Rubios isn’t very healthy, so I thought, let me checkout what Subway has to offer. Turkey Breast sandwich 1000 mg in a 6inch. Course I would rarely get a turkey sandwich, it just isn’t as appetizing. Let’s see…something that sounds good – Chipotle Steak & Cheese – 1470mg.
Dang! I didn’t realize that the food we ate had so much sodium in it! Then again, it often times doesn’t taste “salty”. I think we are accustomed to the amount of sodium in food when we eat out which is why we don’t notice. Can you imagine the salt intake of people who add salt and soy sauce to everything when they’re about to eat it?
No one likes going to the doctor. No one likes going because usually they’re going because something is wrong with them and no one wants anything to be wrong with them. I have been to the doctor many many times, probably more often than the “normal” person. There is something I notice about the experience every single time. I notice the personality of the nurses who do the initial talking and measuring of height, weight, blood pressure, temperature, etc. I also notice the personality of the doctors who diagnose and treat me. The thing that sticks out the most to me is if they are cheerful, friendly, caring, and I guess it stems down to if they appear happy. I think many patients don’t want the nurses or doctors to chit chat with them. The patient doesn’t feel well, they don’t want someone asking them how they feel or chit chatting about miscellaneous things that are not important. They want to be diagnosed, have some type of treatment, and go home and rest. I on the other hand find that I have a much better experience at the doctor when they are chit chatty (yes, me, the person who is afraid of talking to people).
Some nurses just call your name, tell you what to do (stand on the scale; put your arm here; etc) and don’t say a single word more. A hello would be nice, a how are you would be nice, some personality would be nice. You don’t need to know my life story and I don’t need to know yours but it wouldn’t hurt to show a little more than “I’m just here doing my job”.
One of my favorite doctors is this one guy I saw twice. He isn’t my primary doctor (although I tried to pick him as it – but he was full – for obvious reasons), but I saw him once or twice when they had to squeeze me in for an appointment. He was just so cheerful. He seemed like he genuinely cared about how I was doing. He asked me what I did, if I was a student or if I worked. He pretty much took an interest in me (his patient), which is what all doctors should do. Doctors should be personable. I don’t want to go to some doctor who is just some quiet guy with no personality. The last doctor I saw was pretty much in and out. I know you have other patients to get to, but please this is my time.
What about a doctor’s visit makes it more “enjoyable” for you?
Last week as I arrived back to the office after lunch, I saw a well-dressed woman waiting in the lobby. My immediate thought was that she was here for an interview. It got me thinking about the numerous interviews that I’ve had where that short period of time spent waiting in the lobby for them to call you in was very nerve-wrecking. You just sit there with such anticipation, rehearsing lines in your head, trying to remember to have a firm hand shake, to smile, be confident, think before you speak, and what not. A million thoughts rushing through the head, which then reminded me of a psychology experiment I was involved in during college. I think they were trying to test or prove that people become less nervous or more calm when they are interacting with someone or something familiar. The experiment went something like this. You go into a room with the tester/psychologist person and you sit down at a table and they strap on something to measure your pulse. Then the tester person tells you to give a 3 minute speech on an undetermined topic. This is where you’re supposed to freak out about giving a speech and your heart rate is supposed to spike. Then the tester person leaves and your friend comes in and talks to you. This should calm you down. Then the tester person comes back and finishes. I think it works, being able to interact with someone/something familiar definitely calms the nerves. So I thought about people going for interviews and how great it would be if while they were waiting in the lobby, they bumped into someone they knew that currently worked at the company. I totally think this would help me relax.
What do you think?