Driving Me Crazy

Dad is driving me crazy. He worries me with this damn cough, and then he does something that makes me want to go BERSERK (sorry for the Billy Jack reference).

So he wakes up in the middle of the night in a coughing fit. And he gets on the internet to research sleep apnea, coughing fits, etc. ... as is his hypochondriac want to do. And finds some stuff related to his GERD as well. So now he thinks that's the root cause.

Why? Because....

A while back, he stopped taking his Prevacid.

Why? Because...

well, his bowel movements have been better lately.

Well, was the Prevacid constipating? Or causing diarrhea?

Not sure.

So he just stopped taking it. Great.... so I take the tack our doctor would:

"So how many years of med school have you had?"

When a doctor prescribes a med, you need to take it. You can't just stop taking it willy-nilly because there will be repercussions. Jeez, this is crazy.

Lisa said I didn't go too hard, loud or sarcastic on him ... but he'd damn well better start taking his meds again (he said he has)... and if his cough goes away within the next couple of day, I'm going to give him a HUGE amount of shite... and will bug his constantly about taking his meds. He had me worried, but if this is all because of his own actions... aaarrrghhhhhh!

On the bright side, I hulu'ed the season finale of 30 Rock (and not just because of my crush on Ms. Fey)... it's the best episode of the year... great moments ("I'm a kidney"... the doctor's "opposite" ... "What do you think this is, Wings?")... but it's the guest stars for the episode-ending musical benefit that Rock-ed the most: "international art thief" Declan McManus, er Elvis Costello and others (including the page's "cousin" Clay Aiken):

Just Give a Kidney



Laughing my ass off...

Give the gift of giving
Give it in a giving way...

Listen, when someone starts talking in the middle of a song, you know it's serious

A hand would be an even harder thing to give...

What a line-up: Elvis, Steve Earle, guitar badass Robert Randolph (he's the one singing with Cyndi Lauper, one of the drunk ones), Sheryl Crow (the one getting paid), the Beastie Boys, Wyclef Jean, Moby, Norah Jones (was that her in the really short haircut?).. and a bunch of others...

Yes, they've had quite a year...

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The Bones finale SUUUUUUUUUUCKED. The only thing good about it was this commercial shoehorned between segments: