Nightdog Has Drugs!

[nightdog_barks]

Hee! Valtrex and Vicodin*, to be exact! The doctor's office visit was $45, the Valtrex was $40, and the Vicodin (okay, so it's really hydrocodone APAP) was $5.

Believe me, I'm not complaining. I know how lucky Mr. Nightdog and I are to have health coverage in this day and age.

And it was shingles. Yes indeed. And I still think it's ridiculous that a rash can hurt. I'm thinking this is definitely something Rodney McKay needs to get so he can be offended by it too.


*My PA, Jason, says "Vicodin" and I said "Dr. House!" Jason grinned and started chortling. He's a cool guy. Heh.

Comments

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Yah! Maybe that nice dozy side effect of the Vicodin will mean restful sleep tonight.

(My son's Brain Doc is a huge fan of House. It tickles me to death to hear him and the boy riffing on lines.)

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

*nods*

I'm rather looking forward to trying the Vicodin!

Jason is such a nice guy. He was telling me they're starting to see a slow uptick in the incidence of childhood chicken pox -- moms not vaccinating their kids and kids born in Mexico who were never vaccinated.

Scary.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

I got mine vaccinated against chicken pox when he was six and he came down with it a few days later. The poor little guy basically lived under layers of calomine lotion for a week after that.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know there was a vaccine now for chicken pox until Jason told me.

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

So, what? You got generic Vicodin, is that what you're saying? I'm sure the brand name doesn't matter anyway.

And Shingles!Rodney sounds like an excellent basis for a story. Hee! What good are fictional characters if you can't inflict your own ailments upon them?

[misanthropicobs.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that I remember a fic where either House or Wilson had shingles. Good luck with it & hope you feel better soon.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

*nods*

I remember that fic too. It was on Ff.net, and it was Wilson who got shingles. I think it was by ... Enlee? Maybe?

It was a good story!

[misanthropicobs.livejournal.com]

Yeah it was Enlee's - Anything & Everything. It was one of the first long stories I read after discovering House fanfic.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Yup, generic Vikes. White, lozenge-shaped, about a half-inch long.

And Rodney would be so pissed that a disease he had in childhood was striking him again -- laying in wait all these years to sneak up on him when his back was turned!

*g*

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

YAY good drugs! That's always exciting.
(I didn't care for vicodin: it wore off too abruptly and it gave me weird dreams. I'll take tylenol 3's anytime. (and it's weird that I can discuss the merits and drawbacks of painkillers now.))

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

*nods*

Drugs are interesting! And I'm afraid that I now know way too much than is good for me about handguns, the way Russian mobsters greet each other, and how to say "snow" in Old Saxon.

Hee!

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

I frequently hope my family never reads over my shoulder while I'm doing research on things like, oh, how long it takes to starve someone to death or symptoms of strychnine poisoning.

[romeo46.livejournal.com]

YAY to Vicodin...boo to Shingles. I had to get a blood test last year to check for the antibodies because the military now requires the chickenpox virus. I was like, "dude I had it twice I'm pretty sure I have the antibodies." Still didn't save me from the bloodwork :(

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Shingles is no fun at all, that's for sure.

I hate having blood drawn -- that comes next Monday for me when I have my annual fasting work-up done. Yuck.

[melligator.livejournal.com]

Oh shingles is icky! A weird illness, no? ((nightdog))

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

It is weird! Something that should be gone, but it's just lurking!

It's interesting, but it's kind of EEEEEK! too!

[silverjackal.livejournal.com]

Hopefully the drugs are *good* and do what they're supposed to. I'm very sorry you're ill. Hopefully your bout of the shingles is mild and it will go away permanently.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

I hope it goes away permanently too. I don't like it.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Despite drugs and monies and trip, it must be nice to have a diagnosis and a plan, no? And sparkly unicorn band-aids for the itch! (Or does it not itch, just hurt?)

Poor shingles!Rodney (in advance). Or it could be a Pegasus version of a childhood illness, like what they did in "Quarantine."

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

*nods*

It's very nice to have a diagnosis and a plan! And nope, it doesn't really itch. It's more of a deep-down ache, almost like a muscular soreness.

I'd forgotten about "Quarantine" ... hm, that could be interesting!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

...and then they have to call in an infectious disease specialist, or Rodney's in NJ when he breaks out in the rash and he goes to the resident expert, and ...

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

... and the sequel is porn!

... wait, Dee already wrote that ...

*g*