Sioux Falls, SD -- (SBWire) -- 04/03/2014 --Baby Boomers will want to sit up and take notice of this witty new book by former nurse and writer, Mary Bristol, entitled ‘Rx Humor Care Click Here * (Ok, Try Turning The Pages)’.
A rollicking read, the book is not only a funny critique of the United States’ government’s medical insurance website, but also a laugh-out-loud memoir of Bristol’s adventures in travel, healthcare, mothering and her forty-year marriage.
Chapters with titles like ‘Balls Punching’ and ‘Smack Talk’, the suggestion of ‘Throwback Sunday’ and tales of an amorous donkey will have Baby Boomers (and readers of all ages) wiping away tears of laughter.
Synopsis:
Rx Humor Care Click Here * (Ok, Try Turning The Pages) is humor written by a retired nurse. It pokes fun at the questionable medical insurance government website, while taking the reader on a hilarious read of travel, healthcare, mothering and a forty year marriage. The Baby Boomer generation will be in stitches with the author's descriptions of the X,Y, and Z generations. The X, Y, and Z's will want a dose of Baby Boomer humor.
In the chapter "Smack Talk", the X,Y and Z generation has "Throwback Thursday" on social networking. Rx Humor Care suggests "Throwback Sunday, "CALL YOUR MOTHER!” That chapter deals with grandkids sharing their new trends. "Balls Punching", will put all ages into uncontrolled laughter. The chapter, "The Red Light District" tells of travel to Amsterdam, and the author's inability to get to the "Red Light District." "I missed Amsterdam’s red light district, all because a group of juvenile delinquents walked right next to me and “Pot-highed me!”
The chapter on Arizona describes the tours she and her husband took and living in the desert. Not only did the Grand Canyon tour prove hilarious, "The guide said I had on, "Musk perfume,” and the donkey wanted to mate with me instead of carrying me to the bottom of the Grand Canyon.” Once again her nursing comes into play watching others at top of the canyon. In the Chapter, “Rx From Me to You,” a man nearly falls over the canyon cliff and the author describes what she is thinking as everyone is screaming at him. "....he wouldn't be a candidate for the wound vac. By the time, he would have bounced off rocks six thousand feet down; there wouldn't be any muscle mass to connect the wound vac to him. That's a shame, just bloody bones! Bruce said to me, "Are you thinking that sick wound vac stuff again?"
The final chapter deals with seniors being pressured to have an “Advanced Directive” in their medical care. Here is where the story concludes with the authors final conclusion as to how well the medical insurance website is working. She takes the reader through the steps of obtaining an Advanced Directive online. “The next question could have approached me with more sensitivity. Are there some health situations that would make your life not worth living? Well, an asthma attack in the checkout lane is not a pretty sight. No one says, “Oh, please, you go ahead of me,” after that commercial where the guy stepped ahead of a man in line and won a million dollars. Those in line are more inclined to say, “Die lady, I might be the next winner!”
As Bristol points out, the old adage is true: laughter is the best medicine.
“In this computerized generation, I think what everyone needs is a good chuckle once in a while… or more!” says Bristol. “We’ve become so disconnected from our surroundings and to be honest, I think other generations take themselves a bit too seriously. Why not a healthy dose of levity? I suggest taking twice a day for maximum effect!”
‘Rx Humor Care Click Here * (Ok, Try Turning The Pages)’ is available now: http://amzn.to/1hfRdPl
Kindle at Amazon, http://Createspace.com/books
About Mary Bristol
Mary Bristol is a retired wound care nurse, a more than retired mother of seven children and a semi-retired cake decorator. She and her husband Bruce travel around the country with his work. She has always been regarded as the humorist, when she speaks to any group. This book is her introductory tribute to her favorite author, Erma Bombeck. With her own brand of humor, Mary is at her hilarious best describing travel, healthcare, mothering, and her relationship with her husband of almost 40 years! She has been in school board politics, co-hosted a radio show, appeared on television to debate the “Harper Valley PTA," and still come home to fix dinner! She will keep the baby boomers in stitches, as she brings them up to speed on her version of the X,Y, Z generation. She offer’s Rx HumorCare as the levity needed in today’s computerized existence, for all age groups. Take a large dose, more is better in this instance . https://marybristol.net
