To be prescribed to is a birth right of all Americans. It should almost be written in the consitution the way our pharma industry is going. Not to mention their lobbies et al most Americans I would suspect are overdosed on some form of prescription. I am not sure a prescription to what - mostly a state of being drugged I suspect.
To wit the nomenclature of these prescribed meds would have Mendeleev turning in his grave. I too never thought that there could be any more complex words in the dictionary than Presodymium. But alas a sign of changing times is the amount of chemical compounds that have now been created, packaged and prescribed that spans the entire gamut of A to Z.
So in honor of the prescribees here is what we are consuming these days (outside of the large cars, oversized ketchup bottles et al)..
A is for Allegra, Ambient etc...for various allergies, sleep depravation and other mind numbing issues - to me A is for Anathema
B is for good old Benadryl ...cure all for all that ails in my opinion (can sometimes be used in a pinch if out of other elixirs in the scotch department),
C is for Vitamic C (2000% of daily recommended value no less - we want to ensure that the buried do not get scurvy) or Cymbalta - not sure if this was the idea of a cruel joke from a disgruntled cymbals player who got booted from the band; or there is Cialis for the malfunctioning erections,
D is for Vitamin D (what with the sun being blocked out by all the pollution from the big cars we need a way to get that essential vitamin to our starved cells),
E is for Ephedrine - if all else fails I suspect..
you get the idea...even the drug companies themselves have decided to brand themselves to cover all pages in the phonebook - I mean what the heck is an AstraZeneca?
Our first foray into Central America. That elongated isthmus that forms the geographic boundary between two vast continents of North and South America. Specifically landing for NYE 2026 in San Jose, Costa Rica. Capital city for this region that does not have its own army, instead relying on its big bro the Estados Unidos to the north is a metropolis of approx. 500K people. Largely wilderness and with both a Pacific and Carribean/Atlantic coast the country is rich in bio diversity. In Spanish it means the rich coast so named by Columbus landing in early 16th century and being mesmerized by the local tribes sporting gold jewelry. Our stay included visiting the foothills of a large strato volcano called Arenal and enjoying the naturally heated thermal baths for a while. Lunching amidst lush forest and watching indigenous species of avian noise makers fly overhead. Toucans, some sort of pea hens, multiple song bird species completed the spectacle. Iguanas and a lonel...
There was a Hindi film in which Sanjeev Kumar played a God who descends to talk to a guy, and asks him to name all the drugs- they all end in cin- like Anacin. So he explains that it is to atone for his 'sins' that he is having to take all these 'cins'. Modern day sins have surpassed all those small sins, maybe. And are we paying for them!
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