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When modern technology doesn’t make it easier.

I receive a lot of prescription medication by mail, like all of it. And one of those medications I have to sign for since it’s one of those controlled medications (da-da-da-dum!!) and there has to be due signature in acknowledgement of receipt, etc, etc.
Now just a little background here.
Our back door bell is one of [...]

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The Trouble with Just Thinkin

The trouble with Just Thinkin’ is that it’s just plain getting harder to think these days. As anyone who’s followed this blog of mine for any length of time knows by now what a wonderful time I have with all this bloody medication I have to swallow. Medication which has extended into “Pain Killer” territory [...]

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On The Art of Not Posting

The art of not posting…it isn’t as easy as it you might think. You have no idea what I have to go through to keep myself from posting so I’ve decided to make a short list of these items to let other bloggers know what they have to do to keep from posting no matter [...]

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Big White One, Little White One and Poop

No, it’s not what you probably thought it was although I’d be interested in what ran through your mind when you first read the title. In the risk of disappointing anyone as to the actual subject of this post, it has to do with medications actually and the one’s I have to take everyday to [...]

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Fluffing the Covers

So what about yesterday’s VA trip? Well, I’ll tell ya’…
I went down to see my provider whom I call young Dr. Young. He’s an intern from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center just like all our other interns we have at the VA which in this case means a youngish married male with the perpetual smile plastered across [...]

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Quit a Pain Killer. So Where’d my Eyesight Go?

For the longest time now I have been taking a medication called Nortriptyline which, if taken at normal dosages (75mg to 125mg), is used as an anti-depressant. However, when taken at very low dosages (10mg) it becomes a very effective pain killer for those who suffer from chronic pain–like me. Unfortunately as time went on [...]

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Minding the Store Once Again

I’m off to the quilt shop again this morning since with the coming of Eastern Daylight Time this year also comes the start of Laurie’s busy season which usually runs from about this time of the year to January 1st of next year.
After the severe bout of Mad Baby Disease we’ve been through (the disease, [...]

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Medication Breakdown

(With all apologizes to Led Zeppelin)
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Hey pills, stop what you’re doin’!
Hey, pills, you’ll drive me to ruin.
I don’t know what you’re doin’ to me,
But I hate it a lot.
Wont let you mess with me,
Let me be, you’re doin’ me harm.
*Medication breakdown,
Its always the same,
I’m having a physical breakdown,
Drive me insane!
Hey, pills, I got something I [...]

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