Omeprazole and calcium

The story was written in, and also set in 1995
Hence Omeprazole being a much more expensive drug than it is now.....

I haven't finished the story yet but will but just so you know Omeprazole is generic for Prilosec which no one would steal from a hospital as you can get it at the grocery store.

I am sorry: However if Ben (her son) got the disc ONLY it would not be humuliation for his Mother. We will seen soon in the 4th chapter soon.
I do not drink alcoholic drinks I am drinking milk this time (did I make mistakes for much lactose, calcium and protein?) I prefer milk to beer...........

Good story! Lessee if I can answer last two of the Anon's:
1. She got child support from Larry for Will. Nothing from Dan for Ellie and Bobby.
2. Dude had a heart attack. It was mentioned several times. And it can happen to anybody. If you got heart disease in your family, I strongly suggest seeing a cardiologist and get a CT Calcium Test Score. Saved my fuckin' life.
Reading comprehension...

I lost my wife in '12 after 6 years of a slow deterioration from COPD, a really ugly way to go. Massive steroids given to her to help her to breath slowly stripped the calcium out of her bones to the extent that she woke up one morning an coughed. The moderate cough was strong enough to crack three of her ribs and a vertebra in her spine. Three weeks later she left me. After four years I left for a new town, found a new lady, at church even. Within a year we married. Twenty months later the cancer was too much for her and she left me too. I understand staying through thick and thin. Don't think I can do that again. Your story brought back a lot of memories even if they are only remotely similar. Now I need to thank you for the entertainment and sharing your talent; and then take a cup of coffee out on the back porch to reminisce....good times and bad.

I would imagine that such a long journey would be unlikely to be conducted as a solo mission. Sending one person in a cramped weightless environment is, first of all, very bad news for the human morphology. I have met a few real astronauts and they all say that despite the exercise programme onboard the ISS, they still lost core strength. The exercise helped slow calcium loss and kept muscle strength reasonably well, but being in a zero G environment long term is very bad for the human body.
If we consider building space-craft for such long journeys, then I am going with them being large enough to be able to grow and produce plenty of food, have sufficient raw material storage to allow any needed repair and maintenance to be accomplished (including new parts manufacture) and the wherewithal to properly process waste material and enable its continued use in some form (including the sewerage).
I noted someone else mentioned seemingly impossible trajectory redirections. Laws of Physics in this universe should still apply. Do not flout them for a story unless it really was just a wild dream (even then curb your ambitions).
No stars, sorry.

This is a very baroque story with detailed people and place names, and funky relationships which add little or nothing to the story (the mother-son relationship adds nothing to the story). It almost reads as a Twain-esque local color story. Despite the excessive concreteness of the characters and places, the story is pretty bare-bones. We get little of what is going through the wife's mind that causes her to cheat, nor do we get what is going on in the mind of the husband, or any of his emotional reaction, he has a plan so quick you would think he was planning for a long time what to do if he ever found semen in his wife's panties.
You should spend the time you take with the ambiance of the story and put it into the actual story. The husband acts with almost preternatural decisiveness. I figured he caused his own allergic reaction to frame the doctor, because who could be that quick to call 911 and secure the evidence while undergoing a severe allergic reaction? But then you fuddle that up with some sort of plan of the doctor to make hubby plaint. And you never say how that would work. How would giving someone sulphur-based steroids make them more susceptible? You have all this detail in the story, but you leave a major plot point out? You don't even tell us the name of the drug, but you do give us the names of the waitresses (there needed to be two?) including their ethnicity who have at best a very tangential relationship to the story? And if he was trying to persuade U, then why the cheaply purchased goons? What were they supposed to be doing? So, weirdly, we know the name of the banker who suggested quit-claiming the house to the mother in another pointless anecdote, Danny Scandurro (what a name!), but we don't know what the Doctor's plan to convince U was in the first place? And we have other wildly unrealistic things happening, like allergies to elements like Sulphur, which is the third most abundant mineral in our bodies after calcium and phosphorus, (maybe you mean Sulpha allergies?) and conflicting testimony alone resulting in perjury charges. If you spent as much time working the story plot and the facts essential to it as you do the useless background bric-a-brac (what does being an atheist have to do with the plot?) we would have a much better story.
This puts me at 3*, but then you have this stupid addendum in which you tell us what really happened in the story (U really did want to frame his adversary). Why wouldn't you have the story do that? Why are there blank spots? That is just plain insulting to the reader, so 2*.