If we started treating addiction like an illness and not a sin that would go a long way.
Someone comes to you for pain meds. You treat them for pain or you treat them for addiction. Possibly, you treat them for both. But you effing treat them.
Bunnies frighten me.
Anya ,'Help'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Trudy Booth - Jan 14, 2015 8:39:11 am PST #14989 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Betsy HP - Jan 14, 2015 8:41:40 am PST #14990 of 30000
If I only had a brain...
It's very good to see all of you, too.
I actually have two pieces of awesome migraine news. My husband discovered that alcohol was his major migraine trigger, and that if he cut out alcohol entirely, he stopped having migraines. And my son, as we all hoped beyond hoping for, did what some male adolescents do and mostly outgrew his migraines. He's just turned 21, and got an A in his first community college class after missing all of high school.
Tom Scola - Jan 14, 2015 8:41:57 am PST #14991 of 30000
hwæt
Jesse, have you done this one on Good Stuff yet?
Steph L. - Jan 14, 2015 8:42:55 am PST #14992 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I feel very fortunate that my oncologist writes my hydrocodone script whenever I ask
Yeah, my dad has a rather hefty prescription for oxycodone, and I've always wondered why some doctors treat pain adequately and others don't. It sounds like some doctors are less concerned about losing their licenses over prescribing opiates, and I wonder why *that* is. Patient demographics, maybe?
No matter what, it's well and truly fucked, and it makes me so angry.
Steph L. - Jan 14, 2015 8:44:18 am PST #14993 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
My husband discovered that alcohol was his major migraine trigger, and that if he cut out alcohol entirely, he stopped having migraines.
Wonderful! Would that it were so easy for every migraineur. That's so great to hear.
And my son, as we all hoped beyond hoping for, did what some male adolescents do and mostly outgrew his migraines. He's just turned 21, and got an A in his first community college class after missing all of high school.
That's fantastic on all fronts!
Ginger - Jan 14, 2015 8:44:20 am PST #14994 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That's great, Betsy.
It really is good to see so many people who haven't been around for a while or who were really good lurkers. I feel like someone yelled "Ally ally in free."
sj - Jan 14, 2015 8:45:04 am PST #14995 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Betsy, that is great news!
Jesse - Jan 14, 2015 8:45:10 am PST #14996 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have, thanks, Tom!
That is some great news, Betsy!
As long as I can beat you up, Jesse.
You are welcome to try, with your wee self and wee fists!
In short, medicine as practiced in this country is stupid.
Yeah, that.
brenda m - Jan 14, 2015 8:46:57 am PST #14997 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
So much this. My mother's brain tumors were not caught because her doctor wrote off her increased pain as drug seeking and cut back her migraine meds.
Beverly - Jan 14, 2015 8:47:31 am PST #14998 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
::looks around. reaches to touch every single one of you::
Nobody go anywhere, okay?
Thank you, Betsy. And yes if someone drafts ita's Law, I will sign it. I will twist the arms of strangers till they see the point and sign it.
JZ, I'd been thinking "another fucking New Year. Why couldn't this one be the cosmic joke? That guy gone for real, and we get to keep ita?"