commercial boredom and hell

It's hard to imagine the boredom day after day, compounded by the cold, and the requirements of being a professional patient.  It is a grind without relief.  As I watch TV it gets even worse, bombarded by hours of advertisements all health-related.  Drugs, durable medical supplies, law suits over health issues, and don't forget those ads trying to be inspiring from Cancer Centers of America.  I wonder how they all afford the ads, what it is all costing us financially and as a society, as I knit and crochet and my mind wanders.  Do they invent these terms and diseases?  Do we really need the handicane and the hurrycane? It is so exhausting in their lack of creativity and the pounding impression that we are all sick and need this equipment, medication or have been harmed by something so we need relief.  Is this what Dante meant - is it hell or merely purgatory? Definitely not heaven.