We have a new health plan at work, including a new prescription plan. You can order maintenance drugs by mail (I'll be testing the truth of that statement this week), or if you need to have a prescription filled right away (or it's not for an ongoing condition) you can use a participating pharmacy. How do you know where the participating ( Read more... )

Ok, you. Out of my brain! Now!

We got email this morning from a recent houseguest whose family turned up with head lice the day after they visited. Oh joy. From our interactions with the affected individuals, and their interactions with our furniture and our subsequent interactions with said furniture in the next 24 hours, we're probably fine ( Read more... )

Dear Giant Eagle pharmacy ( Read more... )

I saw a news story today about how US life expectancy is at an all-time high. The article doesn't give enough data to be really useful (it's just the popular press, after all), but I found on reading it that I'm not really interested in life-expectancy figures any more. I'm much more interested in the much-harder-to-compute health expectancy.
In ( Read more... )

I got this from gregbo.
1. How many hours do you normally sleep at night?
About 7.5 on average. Sunday is sleep-in day; it's the only day when I don't have to set an alarm and I usually get about 9 hours then.
2. Do you wish you had more time to sleep? Or do you wish that you slept less?
I wish that I required less sleep, or that there were more ( Read more... )

Guess-the-anonymous-poster update: One outstanding guess (paging aliza250), one where I had to be told (eclectic_1), all others identified. That was fun.
The stereotype is that smart people (including anyone ( Read more... )

Is my health-insurance provider the Wall-Mart of the medical world, or are conventional rates really that wacky? I got a statement from them today (from a recent doctor visit) that said things like "[some test], provider's fee $92.50, our allowance $17.47, you owe $0". While that line-item was the most extreme, for most items the "fee" was about ( Read more... )

Shavuot was good. More about that later.
One of the other people on that cantors'/etc list turns ( Read more... )

This year's bunny melt (hosted as always by ralphmelton and lorimelton) was a great success. The fondue was easy to manage, neither too hot nor too cold, and we had vast quantities of food. We also got to see dr4b, visiting from Seattle ( Read more... )

Shabbat was good, though the first Shabbat after the ( Read more... )