MEDICAL MONDAY BONUS
A GUEST BLOGGING BY GENE

I am currently taking 17 (count 'em, 17) different prescription drugs daily (some of them 2x or 3x daily). Practically all of them list the following common side effects: diarrhea, nausea, dizziness, drowsiness, blurred vision, and a whole host of less common ones. If I gobble 17 of these things every day simple math will demonstrate that the odds are 17 to one that I will experience each and every one of these side effects every day, even though not caused by the same pill each day. Thus, for example if one misses giving me diarrhea on a particular day you can be sure that another one will pick up the slack. This situation proved to be totally unsatisfactory, so by intense effort I was able at last to "train" these 17 drugs to cooperate with one another. Now all 17 of them join to give me diarrhea only on Monday, nausea on Tuesday, dizziness on Wednesday, drowsiness on Thursday, and blurred vision on Friday. Saturdays and Sundays are sort of pot luck (no pun intended). Isn't modern medicine a miracle?