(Subject line is from a furry fairy tale.)

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Walmart (via telephone).  They want $118 for the small bottle of ofloxacin!

CentraCare (Lake Buena Vista FL, via telephone).  They haven’t restocked on ofloxacin since yesterday.  They say that their price is not based on insurance, but on their “actual cost” as a nonprofit organization.  They give me the number of the next-closest CentraCare.
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[My HOTTEST DAY *EVER* at Disney World!  97°F *before* factoring in humidity!  Ontario, Ohio, Florida - doesn’t make a difference, it’s been over 90 every day of this trip.  And Hollywood Studios is the hottest of the parks because its many tall buildings and excessive quantities of asphalt create an “urban canyon” effect.]

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My father had glaucoma for many years.  At my last eye exam, the intraocular pressure was a little high, so I went for a retest today.  Pressure reading is 22 mmHg which is slightly elevated, but the corneal thickness is 680µm.  Since "typical" thickness is only 550µm, this gives a corrected pressure of only 15 mmHg which is within normal range ( Read more... )

Here.  The hairless ape female being operated on in these pictures is not me; I had the right side done today (upper and lower) rather than upper-left as shown.
( Notes on differences from my surgery )