Bug Bites and Johnny Quest Totally Suck

So, before I go grocery shopping, there's something I want to talk about. It is called, "being bitten by a ton of bugs and then having an allergic reaction to their bites," and it happened to me as recently as Wednesday. Today I am in a terrible itchy nasty state. In an attempt to remedy this I went to the doctor, who vaguely reminded me of House, but without the mean... so nothing like House.

He gave me a drug called Prednisone, which according to the internet... does terrible things to your body while you're busy thinking that you're getting better. It is a sneaky little pink pill that, while it makes your itching subside, makes you gain weight, lose sex drive, and could potentially be habit forming if taken for more than 7 days.

There is a variety of other things it can do to you (and I have no personal experience as I took my first one 5 hours ago) but I don't want to talk about them here. What I do want to look at is the fact that my doctor didn't mention ANY of these things AT ALL. I'm not really upset (You're blogging. You MUST be upset! ... no, not really) it just strikes me as REALLY ODD. Does your doctor give you things without telling you about the side effects? My old one didn't but apparently... now it's up to you to find out!!

And I know, I looked on the internet to figure out what the drug's deal was, so my information may be sketchily accurate at best. I have also had doctors tell me that the internet is the worst thing that doctors have to deal with (even worse than stinky people!?) because everyone self diagnoses and freaks themselves out. But, I was forced to since my doctor did not tell me all the facts. *sigh* Now I'm afraid I'll gain 20 pounds and lose all sexual desires because of a tiny pink pill, but hey, no risk of dependency as I only have 5 days worth of the stuff. Little victories.

Speaking of Doctors, we need to talk for 67 seconds about "The Venture Brothers." This TV show kicks wild ass. (Is all you do watch TV?? No. I do a lot of other things, but it's the end of summer break and I am squishing in all the TV I can.) Venture Brothers is "essentially" a parody of Johnny Quest, that is (in my opinion) 1000 times more entertaining than Johnny Quest. I really don't like Johnny Quest at all but that is a different story for a different time. Venture Brothers is about Hank and Dean Venture, a set of fraternal twins, who love to do all sorts of crazy things and have adventures-ish. Their father Dr. Venture (see the Doctor tie-in? Yeah...) is a super genius scientist who may or may not have a moderately sized army of his cloned sons. And then there is Brock Samson who is Dr. Venture's bodyguard, and possibly the manliest cartoon man ever. EVER. The season 3 finale aired last night (Saturday) on Adult Swim (Cartoon Network) but there are full episodes on Adult Swim. com, so since you aren't doing anything on the internet anyway, why not watch one?

Totally Awesome

Now I have to go get milk and food. Toodles!