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Sally wrote: "Gretchen, I really like the Drive-By Truckers too! They're really underrated, IMHO."DId you end up coming to the show in Baltimore? I know it sold out.
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No. I couldn't find anyone to go with me and I felt a little weird about going alone. I'm kind of bummed out about it because I don't know when I'll see them next. :(
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i like traveling and eating alone sometimes. i am with people all the time and i get tired of being "on"
I adore traveling alone. It rarely happens but it's such a treat. Go ahead, delay my flight. I don't have any kids with me so I don't give a flying fuck. I'll sit right here and read for 17 hours. Try to bore me. I dare you. I don't get bored.
a few years back i went backpacking by myself in central america for a week and had a ball. i flew into an airport that i never had been to before in a new city and got on a bus and just cruised across the country. totally liberating and fun
One of my favorite memories is when I went alone to the Delaware Water Gap. I love that place.
Chicago's DBT show sold out way early, too.I travel alone sometimes, too, when my wife and kids are off at her mom's. I'm going to the Pacific northwest on my own this spring...I've been to Germany, New Orleans, the Badlands, etc. all alone. Other people get in the way.:)
When my children were small I had this fantasy business venture cooked up. It involved a very nice hotel, exclusively for mothers of small, needy children. The mothers would check in, be offered food, drink, massages, a nice book, a TV schedule, and then be left alone.
Cynthia wrote: "When my children were small I had this fantasy business venture cooked up. It involved a very nice hotel, exclusively for mothers of small, needy children. The mothers would check in, be offered fo..."
What? No oxycontin?
What? No oxycontin?
Cynthia wrote: "When my children were small I had this fantasy business venture cooked up. It involved a very nice hotel, exclusively for mothers of small, needy children. The mothers would check in, be offered fo..."In my fantasy that hotel also has a daycare where you can dump your small needy children so you don't have to listen to their dads bitch about having them all weekend.
What? No oxycontin?I prefer Valium with my room, please.
In my fantasy that hotel also has a daycare where you can dump your small needy children so you don't have to listen to their dads bitch about having them all weekend. Heh. I don't bitch about having mine all weekend. But I do make sure I schedule a weekend on my own, even if that weekend is in the distant future, because my wife just went somewhere and can't say anything.
Oh alright. Mine doesn't bitch either. I feel guilty leaving them even though he's awesome about it. There. I told the stupid boring truth. Happy?
Hm. I think you owe him a weekend away for your sins.
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Gretchen wrote: "Cynthia wrote: "When my children were small I had this fantasy business venture cooked up. It involved a very nice hotel, exclusively for mothers of small, needy children. The mothers would check i..."Gretchen honey, you sound bitter.
P.S.: My fantasy hotel is free of illegal or prescription drugs, thank you very much. But the wine flows freely, baby.
As long as we're talking about fantasy. I have this fantasy in which I take two weeks off and spend it in a quiet cabin near a lake. All I take with me are a stack of books and several watermelons. The idea is that I get caught up on my reading and lose ten pounds in the process. A girl can dream...
Ah ah ah, yes LJ. Except I'd bring more food, and definitely my dog. A lake is nice, but for me a babbling brook would be better.
Sally wrote: "RE: Oxycodone: I heard that a friend of mine who gave birth just a few weeks ago was offered Morphine to sleep through the night."This is perfectly valid, if she was in pain. One of the side-effects of narcotics is drowsiness. It's amazing to me how many people--including doctors and nurses!--have no understanding of the relationship between good pain control, good rest, and good recovery. Obviously if your friend wasn't in pain the offer of a sedative would've been much more appropriate. To offer narcs instead of just calling the doc for a sleeping pill order is lazy.
It's amazing to me how many people--including doctors and nurses!--have no understanding of the relationship between good pain control, good rest, and good recovery.Ditto, ditto!
I went to a doctor once because I had had a migraine for over a week that was making me nauseated and just leaving me basically useless.
He told me to take advil.
I just wanted to scream, "I'm not a drug addict! I just want something to stop this insane pain that makes me throw up daily!!"
Seems like pain killing drugs were created for just these types of situations- am I wrong?
My worst experience with pain... after a car accident, my back muscles were spasming (on a sidenote, I don't think that's really a word) so much that I called my doctor's office to find out what I needed to do to stop the pain... my doc was out, but her colleague, who's an integrative medicine doc, sent me home with a little white piece of paper and the suggestion that I get "magnesium" to relieve the pain. I was soooo pissed off. When my doctor returned from wherever she was, she prescribed some muscle relaxers... and suggested I go to a massage therapist. When I went to see the massage therapist, I couldn't turn my head or raise my arms above hip level... She worked with me for almost 6 months before I had mobility again. Stupid magnesium didn't do a damn thing for me.
Yeah, I know it must be hard to be the Dr. or nurse in that kind of situation. You are always trying to judge if someone really needs drugs or not.I have just had that happen to me many times over the years when I was in really bad pain and in the ER even.
Tell me, is there something untrustworthy about my face?
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She just looks like she'd smell of 40 cigarettes/day, jager, and b.o.
She just looks like she'd smell of 40 cigarettes/day, jager, b.o., and underwear that hasn't been changed in 3 weeks (the neon green zebra print string bikini kind).
"Really, I'm juscht in so mush pain, doctor..."
Don't get me wrong, Bun... I tend to prefer the integrative medicine and CAM. I'm sure that if I was looking for something to treat chronic back pain, I'd have been all over the magnesium, but I wanted a quick pain reliever, and the magnesium wasn't cutting it. In fact, I felt like I'd just planted a seed in the garden and was hovering over it... watching for something, anything to sprout.
Julie wrote: "Yeah, I know it must be hard to be the Dr. or nurse in that kind of situation. You are always trying to judge if someone really needs drugs or not."Well...it's not really up to the doc or the nurse to "judge" whether or not a patient is having pain. I hate that attitude, that it's the MD's/RN's decision whether or not a patient "deserves" pain medicine. Sure, we get our fair share of med-seekers but we also get plenty of patients who really are having pain (surgery hurts). I work with a nurse who is extremely judgemental and withholds pain med from her patients if she doesn't believe they are having pain. She told one young man--a kidney donor, mind you--that he was going to become a drug addict if he took pain meds. The poor boy was so scared to take anything that he suffered needlessly all day until his night-shift was able to convince him that taking a couple of percocet wasn't going to put a monkey on his back. I don't believe in handing out narcs like they're Halloween candy but I do believe in making my patients comfortable.
Yeah, that's how I feel it should be.I sometimes feel like the Dr.s or nurses are looking at me as if I did look like that picture up above.
(I swear I don't really look like that:))
I think if people really want drugs that badly for recreational purposes, they can get them easier than going to the ER or hospital and acting like they have an illness. At least, that's what all those after school specials lead me to believe.
Yep. Doctors/nurses can be such dickheads. If someone is in pain for a damn good reason, like surgery (excuse me, kidney removal is not painful?) make them comfortable! That's the oath you took.Obviously watch out for chronic users. But this is ridiculous.
I don't think anyone who personally hasn't had pain doesn't consider the horrible effect it can have you if it's 24/7.
I threw away the hydrocodone I was prescribed after I had all 4 wisdom teeth removed at the same. I used it for two days. That's it. It was making me feel crazy. I made the choice for pain over what the hydrocodone was doing to me. Either way, it was definitely a no win situation. That was one of the most miserable experiences I've ever had in my life. Ever.
Heidi I had something similar when I had all 4 of mine removed too. I think it was a mix of tylenol and codeine, and it made me miserable. Didn't do a thing for the pain, and made me feel ill. I stopped after 1 day.
Meh, I was young (early 20s) and cavalier and decided to take care of three medical issues at the same time, so it wasn't so much JUST the teeth. It was also the steroids I was having to take for some ear issues I was having... and prepping for knee surgery to fix a torn meniscus (which the doctor misdiagnosed, so I found out I wasn't going to have to have the knee surgery before he did it). The combo of the steroids and feeling lethargic from the pain made me miserable... I gained like 20 lbs in 2 weeks. UGH. Although... it wasn't nearly as miserable as the dry sockets I got soon after the wisdom teeth were pulled. BLEH!!! Man, that was horrible! Not so much painful as much as I just wished I could sleep through it until it'd go away.
Oh steroid ugh. I have no idea why people would want to take them if they didn't need it. I've gone through 2 rounds and I've never been more hyper in my life. So tired from lack of sleep combined with hyper is awful. And the pain on top? When we're young we think it'll be a piece of cake, we're immortal, eh?!
My wife was a mess when she had her wisdom teeth out, I was actually scared she was so out of it.
Well i'll try my best not to fuck up in my spelling, but I can't promise anything. Hi everyone my name is Lori. I came here a few months ago but I haven't had time to check you all out. Think i'll cruise around for a little bit. If you don't mind?
Welcome Lori, why would we mind? ::he says suspiciously::
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That would be more persuasive with the little bear picture.