Please bear with me, weeks and months go by with nary a ripple in the otherwise smooth placid river of my life.......

My DH takes strong prescription medication for compression fractures and osteoporosis. His doc started him out on hydrocodone and because of the nature of pain meds and nephrotoxicity, he's careful about dosage. Eventually he'll be on morphine at some point but he lives with a certain   amount of pain in an effort to push that day into the future. As a 100% service connected disabled vet, he receives all of his medical care at the VA.

The prescription has to be rewritten every month. If he presents more than 3 days before, the VA refuses to write the script. He never exceeds the recommended dosage and his normal routine is to drop the empty bottle off before other scheduled appointments. By the time he's through, he's able to pick the medication up and he's set for another month.

I'm posting this as a community announcement so those of you in the LA area can make plans to attend. To clear up any misunderstanding, I'm not MSOC.

I've decided to host a party at my home this Friday, for a few reasons:

1. It's pyrrho's last night in Los Angeles

2. It's about damned time

3. I'm hoping a gathering of MLWers and other liberal Los Angeles citizens will help me crawl out of the hole in which I've been burrowed for the past several weeks...