Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for July 21, 2023

Good enough. I’ve googled them one day and I’ve discovered I was dead already.

I know better than to look up my symptoms online. I do look up all my new meds since I don’t have a current nurse’s drug guide. That’s a more useful book than a PDR. The PDR is just a collection of all the package inserts of the meds in it. Companies pay to be in the PDR. A nurse’s drug guide is more objective with easier to understand explanations. Mind you, it is still in some medical language, but not heavily so, and certainly not in pharmacology technobabble. It’s also more affordable than a PDR, much more. I got mine at Barnes & Noble.

Nothing like a holiday to wear you out!

Aunty you don’t need a holiday, you need an intervention.

“Holiday….oh, what a lovely day today.”R. Davies

No, that was a sponsored ad by a travel agency

As my wife tells her patients: “Go to Web MD, look up your symptoms, decide what rare disease it is you are dying of and then grab a cup of coffee and give me a call and we can have a good laugh.”

Looks like you’re off to the local walmart for a day of shopping and airconditioning. I spend a lot of time looking a electronics and sporting goods when the temperature start getting over 90 outside.

I checked with ChatGPT…

My Ovarian Prostatitis is Molting.

Don’t we all?

There’s no holiday when you’re retired…

Take a Holiday from booze. Plop plop fizz fizz. What a relief it is.

Time for a Mental Health Day.

Me too Aunty, me too. Haven’t had a real vacation since 2017.

If you rely on Dr Google, you can get any answer you want.

If I have symptoms I want to look up I use Mayo Clinic but when I want to know about any new drugs I get I will look it up on WebMD or sometimes Mayo Clinic.