My daughter and I saw this little guy on the steps as we were leaving the other day. He stayed there in that exact position while my daughter went in to find my camera, and then while I went in to find my camera. He let me get three steps closer to him, take the pic, then shot off into the underbrush. What a nice lizard, huh?
Suddenly lizards are all over the place around here. There didn't use to be, but you're more likely than not to encounter them these days. When I was a kid, there were zillions of them around our backyard, but they went away because my brothers cut off their tails. I was horrified by this behavior, but my mother said it was ok because lizards grow their tails back. I was a kid, and mom said it was ok, so it was.
I don't blame the lizards for disappearing. Their tails may grow back, but it still has to hurt to have them cut off. It took years for my mother's faulty logic to reach me and by then I had disappeared myself to grow my own tail back. Hey - maybe that's why my tail is so big - fear of having it cut off! Hyuck hyuck.
My middle girl needs to change pain meds, again. The new ones make her sick to her stomach and too woozy to function outside. I'm afraid of running out of meds to try. How is this possible, still, after so much time? How is it that pharmaceutical companies can spend billions of dollars on making new medications - how many extra dollars can it cost to make one that doesn't hurt as much as the pain it's supposed to control?
Maybe that's the idea - they recoup the cost of research through people who have to buy their nausea medications to combat the side effects of their pain medications.
I'm so angry. Fuckers.
