For the first time ever, I’ve been popping pain killers. i’ve dabbled with lortab or vics for a couple days after surgeries. But never popped. My back so inflamed every muscle up and down my left leg has been spasming and firing. I think its muscular more than sciatica, getting some relief walking around with my stim unit strapped to my leg, groin, back or ass. Its been a pleasure for the coworkers to see. Having a pad slide down your crotch during the drive and then fishing for it and ripping out the short hairs en route is another awesome carnival game.
The severity is totally my fault – hiking Petrified Forest, unpacking all day, riding the trainer a couple hrs, chopping down a tree all after the onset of pain. Its been so long, fortunately, that i’ve had a good injury i sorta forgot how bad i am about rest. Two trips to my chiro and i was still a wretching ball of nerves and tension and could not sit still for 30 seconds. Driving there was more dangerous than dui. I had to goto the PCP for the scrip, even though he basically rubber stamped me when i gave him my chiro’s number and asked him to call. That was weird. Too easy. I got all pumped up to lobby him: “um…doc? remember 2 months ago you checked on my golf-ball-sized hyperextended finger, and i didn’t even want a tylenol? so could you set aside any guilt about meth destroying families in Apache Junction and pharm parties in Las Sendas aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand score me some shit?” Then the PCP offered me the whole candy store. So this is regulation? For the record, my single 30 pill bottle of vicodin that I got in early ’04 after getting a pin in my thumb still had 11 left when this started. And since getting the meds was so easy, i sorta got kinda peeved about the $25 copay and another hour of sizzling rippling inside-out electrocution while waiting for my dope. Why cant i buy pharm-quality stuff whenever i want? The hoops i had to go through are token, and I don’t misuse when easily available. I am not a problem.
I do get that its an addictive substance, i’ve got friends who love to party on vics, i foresee people using it like aspirin and coffee and getting hooked. I totally get that it needs some safe instructions, after playing Uomma Donna in ’00 8 weeks post-knee surgery. I played really well on Saturday, with the help of a lortab, then another that night and another before Sunday’s game. On Day 2 the first time i planted coming down from a catch, a bolt of white lightning shot up my leg and blinded me, and i dropped the disc, and cursed out the other team in a horrendously inexcusable spirit foul. then i didn’t walk for 2 weeks.
Maybe some restrictions are good, treating something as a little dangerous. Getting it when i legitimately needed it was not a big deal, and lack of access contributes to lack of exposure.
*smack*
*smack**smack*
That’s a hard one for a libertarian to take, and as much as i ponder it i am simply not sure how availability, legality and exposure all ultimately translate into problems or lack thereof, vs satisfaction and freedom of choice and holistic integration into society. Would meds eventually be treated like ibu, but stronger, with the occasional OD the price of convenience for so many other people? Calling John Stuart Mill? spill in the Pharmacy aisle, bring your utility mop. i’m not into meds and i dont have a problem with them, and am just not so deeply troubled by the nominal effort to get them. my perspective however is only one of many.
As I was narrowly avoiding car accidents on the way home, and further ruining the clutch, I got a message that the drug test i might have to take will not happen (without several weeks notice) as the position has been filled internally. How ironic! Time to test out the Green Doctor while i waited for CVS to get me my prescription smack!!!
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pot sucks for pain!
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it did nothing but make me hyper conscious of the cage match going on inside my leg. Those scenes of maggots eating stuff? they were not eating, they were all dressed like Nacho Libre and going superfly off the top rope, nonstop, down my whole left side. For me, meds work like meds and pot works like pot.
I am quite certain it works if you have glaucoma, steady chronic pain, no appetite or energy, if you need to feel floaty and fresh to forget your terminal suffering – a low-level pain reducer. maybe i need the indica instead of the sativa, or the other way around. It works for many ailments, just not the kind i get myself into. some people cant handle pain pills, or use them differently; pot does not relieve my acute 10-on-a-scale-of-1-to-10 pain. 7 yr old vicodin FTW!
This experiment certainly highlights my bandwagoning on the medical marijuana bandwagon. I’m all for it, cause it will be easy to get and not worry about being a criminal just to enjoy a “drink”. Getting it will be about as much effort as getting meds, which is about what’s involved in getting it now, except you don’t call it pot in email.
Riding up the gondola in Telluride there were 2 older couples from Texas pondering CO’s medical mj law. They had no experience with pot, and were cracking jokes about how advocates acted like it heals a broken leg. But not all smarmy and FOX-Newsy, but like simple people of the land intaking the rare air. It was hysterical listening but trying to act like i wasn’t listening. like that could happen in a gondola. Maybe they figured I was gettin’ dirty I was cool wit it. which is kinda true. but beside the point! It was so genuine, and totally poked some reality into the holy grail of medical mj – does anyone at all believe that its *only* about medicine? You don’t see people so passionately lined up for more liberal dispensing of vicodin in the name of freedom. I’m still totally cool withthe compromise, its worth it for de facto decriminalization.
So how is it that something i don’t abuse, i dont have a problem with mild restrictions on it? But something that, by many definitions, I do abuse and personally don’t find medicinal i think should be totally legal, while willingly ceding some control just so we can get it decriminalized? My libertarianism again donkey-punched! When i thought a smoke might fuck up a job interview, and didn’t want to be the punchline in a dumbass stoner joke, i stopped for months snap snap np. The only thing i can’t stay off of is a bike, which is why my back pain is hanging around. we’re all largely happy with the meds model and the more-liberal alcohol model. The current restrictions are not all that burdensome, for some things we all agree do some things. I surrender my philosophy for a good buzz.