Codeine makes me break out in hives and then stop breathing, and nearly all other prescription painkillers just make me throw up. So I never get anything but ibuprofen, even after abdominal surgeries. (I did get codeine after my first abdominal surgery, which is how I discovered I was allergic to it.)
Inara: We thought we lost you. Mal: Well, I've been right here.
'Out Of Gas'
Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
[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.
Jessica - Dec 31, 2008 10:18:36 am PST #6381 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
smonster - Dec 31, 2008 10:23:42 am PST #6382 of 10000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
{{laura}} hugs right back!
la la la, haven't done anything since coming back from lunch. well, i opened powerpoint and made a title slide, but that's it.
Calli - Dec 31, 2008 10:27:24 am PST #6383 of 10000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
So, cat-owning or -owned bitches, I'm leaning strongly toward getting a cat of my own in a month or two. (Probably an adult cat from the pound, as I understand they're hard to place and I like cats as much as kittens.) I was wondering if anyone had experience with the Omega Paw Roll Away Self Cleaning Litter Box. It seems to have good reviews on Amazon, and I like the idea of not having to scoop every day but not having to burn electricity to keep the litter clean. Comments? Criticisms? Stories of the Omega Paw Roll Away Self Cleaning Litter Box that traumatized your cat and not in amusing way that you could post on YouTube?
Connie Neil - Dec 31, 2008 10:39:12 am PST #6384 of 10000
brillig
Hubby's on so many restricted painkillers we could probably buy a car if we flogged half of them at the high schools. But Demerol gives him screaming hallucinations. Pain where he's in control is bad enough, but pain combined with flaming demons shoving pitchforks into him is an event I prefer to not repeat.
erikaj - Dec 31, 2008 10:45:02 am PST #6385 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
holy shit, Connie.
Laura - Dec 31, 2008 10:50:12 am PST #6386 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.
Whew! Glad we didn't get hallucinations. They gave Demerol to Brendon when he was about 8 and got a washer stuck on his finger. Gave him a shot in the ER and said they would be back in about 20 to get the washer off and that he would likely be asleep or close to it. They got back and he was sitting up chattering like a wind up doll. Then they didn't dare give him anything else. They still got the washer off by winding floss around the finger. Same thing apparently causes him to relax and unwind with caffeine. Weirdo.
ChiKat - Dec 31, 2008 10:55:02 am PST #6387 of 10000
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I love demerol. Morphine, OTOH, gives me paranoid hallucinations. No demons with pitchforks. More like blue-gloved suits out to get me.
Connie Neil - Dec 31, 2008 10:55:51 am PST #6388 of 10000
brillig
I think it's the injectible Demerol that caused the hallucinations, but I'm not sure. It was a very long time ago, when we didn't have insurance and the ER said we could bring him in for observation but pretty much all they'd do was let it work its way out.
God bless every doctor and nurse we've worked with in the past 15 years, and may all the insurance governing committees come down with boils.
omnis_audis - Dec 31, 2008 10:57:10 am PST #6389 of 10000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Not sure if it was Demerol or Morphine, but when I had back surgery, I had some pretty damn vivid hallucinations. Like having a conversation with my Aunt who never visited me while in the hospital vivid. Very realistic. It was awesome and spooky at the same time.
I just tore my favorite leather coat. (Not the Spike coat, for those who know me f2f, but the other one.) It's in a fairly noticeable place, and I'm not sure how to repair it. Damn it—I really like that coat.OK, I've been watching too much non-tivo'd tv of late. I couldn't find a link to the one they've been pushing, this bottle of glue for fabric, but I found this liquid leather repair: [link] Would that work for you? No clue how good/bad it is.
Jessica - Dec 31, 2008 10:57:32 am PST #6390 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I know I was babbling like a crazy person the one time I was given Demerol, but I was on about 5 other drugs at the time too (this was in the ER right before I had my appendix taken out) that it could have been any number of biochemical interactions.