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The Trouble with Just Thinkin

By Kirk M | Published January 11, 2009

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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Drawn, Quartered and De-Brained

By Kirk M | Published December 8, 2008

You know, it’s hard to write anything intelligible when you have a knife stuck somewhere in the area of your solar plexus. In fact, it’s nearly impossible. I’m beginning to feel a bit like Mel Gibson at the end of Brave Heart just after the executioner shows him an item that strangely resembles a $3.00 [...]

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On The Art of Not Posting

By Kirk M | Published October 3, 2008

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

By Kirk M | Published August 31, 2008

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

By Kirk M | Published April 11, 2008

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?

By Kirk M | Published March 14, 2008

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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Medication Breakdown

By Kirk M | Published February 9, 2008

(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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Medication and Blogging Don’t Mix

By Kirk M | Published January 11, 2008

The problem with having health problems and having to take medication for said health problems (at least some of them) and especially if one or two make you a bit groggy, making you feel that perhaps the room is tilted slightly to the left is…
…it does not mix with blogging.
Instead of writing up some wonderfully [...]

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