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Sunday, January 22nd, 2012,  10:30 p.m.

Well, today's topic is pills. You know, sometimes we refuse taking pills for one reason or another. After my mother was almost over medicated on too many different drugs by a country doctor and began to lose her hearing,she only then realized that some things in the country did not keep up to what was going on in the rest of the world. I am sure the old doctor was doing his best and meant well but it was not helping her. Once her medications were reviewed down in Kingston, Ontario, 25 miels from where she lived, it became apparent that she needed to find a new doctor. That problem solved, she regained her health and lasted another twenty years, even having her arthritic hands unbuckled by an operation which allowed her to use a pen again so she could sign her name. Well, I am at the age now when all this happened to her and I am on the same road. I seemed to hesitate with all the medication I was prescribed over the past few decades and I have tended to ween myself off of pills until now. Today, I take about thirteen pills per day. A multivitamin, a Vitamin C, 2 Vitamin D pills and a Calcium pill. The other eight pills are prescription pills and have very different purposes; one is to reduce my blood pressure to make sure that the blood going though my kidney is cleaned properly because I only have had one in my body for the past fifty years.  Then there is the pill I take to reduce my prostate gland, something us guys have to deal with as we age. The next two pills are to help me get the sugar in the food I eat into my system so that they do not cause my body to suddenly go through the roof since I am now a diabetic. Then there is a pill to help me to regulate my metabolism rate, that sounds like a good one and then my favourite, the one that sounds exactly like the fake kingdom in Europe where the grandmother of an american teenager, growing up in an old firehall with her widowed mum in the USA, became the queen after being trained to take over. You know the one, with Anne Hathaway and Julie Christie. I think it was called Princess Diaries. Well, all of these pills including the one called Janeuvea or something like that, have begun to make me begin to feel human again for the first time in five years. Then again, maybe it is the additional water I am drinking, the new eating resume or perhaps a combine effort to make changes. Grant you, it has only been about two weeks and I occasionally slide back to old habits but at least I am making an effort with the idea that in the long run there will be a long run. I used to always say, as my brother reminded me recently, that I was here for a good time not a long time....well, that good time has become a long time and I would like to keep it going as long as possible now that it is really getting good again. Talk about going to hell in an applecart, that was the last 25 years for the most part. Regaining my health is sure sending me in the right direction. Tennis anyone? Maybe next year.