Oh, wow. This place looks great. Oh, I feel like a witch in a magic shop.

Willow ,'Help'


Spike's Bitches 39: Cuppa Tea, Cuppa Tea, Almost Got Shagged, Cuppa Tea...  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Jen - Jan 21, 2008 11:20:55 am PST #3316 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you

I took something in the emergency room once that got rid of my pain and left my head clear, which I loved beyond all reason. Alas, I have no idea what it was called.

It might have been Toradol (generic name Ketorolac), which is a non-opiod pain reliever. We use it a lot for post-operative pain during the first 24 hours after a c-section; the regional anesthesia we use has a generous helping of narcotics in it, injected directly into the spinal column, and people can't get any supplemental opiates for the first 24 hours after getting intrathecal narcotics. So we use Toradol.

People love it; it works really well and has none of the side effects of opiates (sleepiness, nausea and vomiting, etc.).

Unfortunately it's only available by prescription.


libkitty - Jan 21, 2008 11:22:55 am PST #3317 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs

It might have been, Jen. I don't know. They said that they used it a lot for gall bladder pain (what I was in for), because it seemed to work especially well for that.

eta: Whatever I got was in my IV, not a pill.


vw bug - Jan 21, 2008 11:24:44 am PST #3318 of 10001
Mostly lurking...

Whatever I got was in my IV, not a pill.

Not Jen, but it's available both ways. I used to give myself Toradol shots for my migraines. It was a magic drug for me (which my current neurologist won't give me. Oh, well...I don't get them as often, so it's fine, but I did love it).


Jen - Jan 21, 2008 11:37:46 am PST #3319 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you

I've actually never given any other way except through an IV. People are usually pretty nauseated after surgery and we don't give any meds by mouth for a little while to avoid the nearly-inevitable vomiting.


Pix - Jan 21, 2008 11:38:14 am PST #3320 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.

Some idiot tree trimmer knocked out the power on my street a couple of hours ago, and I'm freezing! I want my heat back!


tommyrot - Jan 21, 2008 11:39:27 am PST #3321 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Some idiot tree trimmer knocked out the power on my street a couple of hours ago, and I'm freezing! I want my heat back!

I bet some alien parasite has embedded itself in the tree trimmer's spine and is controlling him as part of their plan to take over the Earth.


Polter-Cow - Jan 21, 2008 11:41:36 am PST #3322 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Well, that would be as silly as someone growing back his hand.


Daisy Jane - Jan 21, 2008 11:45:34 am PST #3323 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Doesn't juliana have an audition today? Break a leg juliana!


vw bug - Jan 21, 2008 11:49:31 am PST #3324 of 10001
Mostly lurking...

Hmmm...instead of doing homework, I'm uploading videos that I took on the trip with my new camera. It's so fun!

Here's the beach I went to with Stephanie and her family: [link]


beth b - Jan 21, 2008 11:50:01 am PST #3325 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

sending you warm thoughts Kristin