Follow up... (Sick...)

I made it to work this morning. Pretty close to on time too. Yes I'm crazy. It took me a while to figure out what was going on with my phone this morning... I figured it out after a minute of blankly staring at it... the alarm was going off ;-)

Indeed I still have a fever... and the only cure for that fever is more cowbell! I'm a little surprised nobody had made that comment from the post yesterday. I didn't think of it until this morning, but that's also because my brain has been simmering on low for quite some time now. For those of you that are Christopher Walken fans I submit this (Originally found by Littlerwinks and in my Inbox this morning of all times):

http://www.morecowbell.dj/
For your listening pleasure -
http://www.morecowbell.dj/listen?id=BsWLa

Anyway, I figured coming here would be a good option for getting some aspirin and I was correct (Hooray). Although I've come to find out that although a prescription isn't necessary for aspirin here, without one I would have to pay the full price for it. I'm assuming therefore that it would be in the >€30 range for a bottle. Since the average person pays about €600 a month for their health insurance here it would seem that they make the most of it. Note that their employer is obligated to pay the other half (also €600). It's kind of interesting that Americans, in general, will pay far less than that (I pay about 6% of that) yet when I'm sick my last option is going to the doctor. I'll spend at least a week being miserable and eating cold medicine like candy before I go to the doctor. Even more interesting is that it would seem a trip to the emergency room in the US is dominated by patients without any health insurance... So I leave you with this - I got something similar forwarded to me a while back and thought it was funny and fit well with this topic:

For the next time you have to go to the emergency room in the US. Should you want to jump the line and not have to wait more than 4 hours I suggest you go to the following site and purchase the following piece of flair to add to your jacket ;-)
http://www.correctional-patches.com/federal.html