{"id":2753,"date":"2016-03-16T08:17:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T13:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2016-03-16T08:17:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T13:17:36","slug":"wednesday-16-march-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/03\/16\/wednesday-16-march-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 16 March 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

09:17 –<\/span> Spring seems to have arrived early in Sparta. It’s been warm for a couple weeks, and the last few days we’ve had highs near 70F. But I wouldn’t be surprised if we have a period of Indian winter at some point. The weather here is nothing if not unpredictable.
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Barbara drove down to Winston this morning for an appointment with an oral surgeon. She was originally scheduled for mid-April, but there was a cancellation. She grabbed it, because she didn’t want to go another month of having to chew food on one side of her mouth.
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The dentist wrote her prescriptions for cephalexin and twelve 375\/5 mg acetaminophen\/hydrocodone, which is far too small a dose of the latter and far too large of the former. And I see that the FDA is cracking down on prescriptions for opioid painkillers, as if it’s any of their business. All scheduled drugs should be de-scheduled immediately and made available over the counter. There’s no reason I shouldn’t be able to walk into Costco and buy large bottles of hydrocodone, oxycodone, or heroin or cocaine for that matter. It’s none of the government’s business.
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09:17 – Spring seems to have arrived early in Sparta. It’s been warm for a couple weeks, and the last few days we’ve had highs near 70F. But I wouldn’t be surprised if we have a period of Indian winter at some point. The weather here is nothing if not unpredictable.\n<\/p>\n

Barbara drove down to Winston this morning for an appointment with an oral surgeon. She was originally scheduled for mid-April, but there was a cancellation.<\/p>\n

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