Gray Matters by Stuart Carlson and Jerry Resler for December 23, 2020

I’m sure she enjoyed that.

Days-of-the-week pill boxes are helpful: nine in the AM, six at night, plus nitro patch.

I’m 67, and doctors are always shocked that I’m not taking any medications. They look at me like, what’s wrong with you?

I always wondered of drug companies used a random name generator program that they loaded with about 50 syllables (from “am” to zic") and let it spit out random strings of 4 to 5 syllables in a string to come up with their drug names…

This reminds of the old ’Lectric Shave commercial: “WAKES YOU UP LIKE A COLD SLAP IN THE FACE!” And the man would go: “THANKS! I NEEDED THAT!!”

There are some great names in there. Megalomanizol, Oxymoronitalatum, Xenophobitol.

My mom’s 89. She takes one

58 and I have an albuterol inhaler that I only take once a day, if I remember

Wildfires this summer made the air nasty, I took it twice a day for a while

Think it says every 4 to 6 hours

What, no Flintstones chewable vitamins?

A couple of those are real (I take them), and I’m not surprised that he has high cholesterol, but depression? Really?