People are fools

Me: Have you ever been on this medication before?
Patient 1: No.
Me: Do you have any questions for the pharmacist?
Patient 1: No I'll just swallow it and see what happens.

Me: Do you have any questions for the pharmacist?
Patient 2: Yes, I've never been on this medication and I don't know anything about it. Oh and can you ring up my fried chicken too?
Pharmacist: Well this medication (HCTZ) is one of the most responsive to high blood pressure. It's the first line of defense when you are just diagnosed with high BP, so it's a good medication to be on. etc, etc.
Patient 2: Thank you so much.
Pharmacist writes on a small piece of paper and slips it to me (because I was helping someone else): HCTZ + fried chicken??

I hope everyone knows, that we all laugh at you (if you happen to be a fool like these people) when you leave the pharmacy. But I know that no one reading this blog is a fool, so rest assured you are not mocked.

Greek Gods

This is the best yogurt I've ever had. My friend introduced it to me on Easter and I haven't stopped raving about it since. You have to slice some strawberries and bananas as toppings to the yogurt and voila, there's the recipe to the best yogurt meal in the world. And you can buy it at any grocery store- get the "honey" flavor.

Best Facebook Post

I was on Facebook today and came across a post by an old friend who was in my ward years ago at BYU. A little background to the posting- it's general conference weekend for my church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) which is basically two days worth of talks given by the leadership of our church. Great weekend, lots of people look forward to it. Anways, he wrote:

"Best non-talk conference moment: driving on I-15 listening to the sustaining votes and being able to see people in other cars raise their hands. Only in Utah!"

You have to be Mormon to understand this but I laughed so hard when I read this.

Funny People

People are funny. We had one patient the other day bring us a script from her doctor that she was really confused about. The doc told her to put a gel that was prescription strength in Ocean Spray, mix it up and inhale it through her nose. The entire way to the pharmacy she was thinking about how weird of a prescription that was. She gets to our "drop off" window and asks to speak with a pharmacist. She asks, "why does my doctor want me to inhale cranberry juice, is he crazy?!" Hahaha, we all had a good laugh. Ocean Spray is a brand name nasal spray that is OTC (over the counter). Why the doc didn't explain that to her I don't know and why she didn't ask the doc to clarify what she was suppossed to do I don't know either. But I'm glad it worked out the way it did because I found it hilarious.

Tonight we had a concerned teenager who is on birth control ask us a question about an ad she saw on TV about the risks of taking her specific birth control. Those ads you see on TV are basically two companies fighting and one company trying to make the other look bad and loose customers by making people concerned over "risks" they should not be concerned with. Anyways, the teenager was concerned and had not taken her pills because of it. The pharmacist was asking her if she smokes, because that's one of the underlying risk factors for ANYONE taking ANY birth control. And she said, "no... well, actually sometimes. I smoke the hookah once in awhile." I had to grin at that one.

Cutest dog in the whole wide room

Lookin' round the room, I can tell that you are the most beautiful dog in the...room, the whole wide room, ooh.
And when you're on the street, I bet you are definitely in the top three, good looking dogs on the street, depending on the street...
Name that song!

Flexibility game...again

I was flipping through a yoga catalog and I pointed to a pose and said I could do that pose. Eric said, "nuh uh" and thereby challenged me to another flexibility contest...

Ski day in March

Eric and I went up to Keystone today because we thought there would be lots of fresh new powder. We thought that because yesterday we had a mini March snow storm. Eric's school was even canceled. But as we were driving up to the mountain, the snow kept getting thinner and thinner. There was no new snow up in the mountains!
Instead we had windy, frigid, icy conditions. Not to sound like a complainer or anything...

But we had a lot of fun. Here is me video taping Eric:


And the highlight of our day was... seeing a PORCUPINE in the trees!


We were riding up on the chair lift and I was just looking out at the trees when I saw this funky looking creature at the tippity top of a tree?!
Eric is the one who always spots these types of things and so I was pretty pleased that I found this one.
Eric boarded over to the prickly porcupine and snapped some great pictures.