7/2017
At work, I see a ton of elderly patients for a variety of medical problems. One of the things I always do is to review their medication list. It is appalling what one finds. The lists are almost always longer than the inventory at Home Depot. Oh, occasionally I will find an octogenarian that is on no medication, doesn’t have a primary care physician and has no allergies. Man, you have to respect your elders, sometimes.
If you take more than one drug at a time, you will have a drug-drug interaction. It may or may not be significant enough to cause a problem, but there is an interaction. So what do you figure are the chances if you are on 30 or more drugs on a daily basis for having an interaction? No, sorry, the max for that answer is 100%. I don’t understand your hyperbole answering 1000%, but that’s just not possible.
So, I have decided, right now seeing that I am still able to decide things (now and then), I will not take the obligatory Aricept, Lexapro, and Ativan. For you non-medical people, Aricept is to stimulate the brain for people with dementia (it doesn’t), Lexapro is an antidepressant and given because how could one be an old geezer fixin to die and not be depressed (one of the more frequently found medications in people that attempt suicide) and Ativan for anxiety that elderly people get when they hear the nurse/spouse/children coming down the hall to give them more pills that they don’t know what they are, do, don’t do and that aren’t wanted.
Yes, if you haven’t figured it out by now, I do have an alternative plan.
Mowing yards. An active mind is an active mind. I started out mowing lawns and I will end up doing the same. The only difference is the technology. Instead of the push 4 hp second-hand lawnmower I started with, Honda now has a riding lawnmower that does 120 mph. (1) And mows grass.
I do wonder if those tires are “S” rated?
From your grumpy Uncle/Brother Dave.
- http://www.breakingnews.ie/discover/honda-have-made-a-lawnmower-that-can-do-nearly-120mph-626970.html
Weary.