http://www.phobialist.com/ While talking to my brother about his difficulty getting an MRI, due to his fear of enclosed places, claustrophobia, I started thinking about our mom who suffered from agoraphobia which kept her house bound for years. So the above link is to the many phobias the human race suffers from and I was wondering do any of you have phobias and how do they affect your lives. Below is a list of phobias that are silly to me, yet these are actual phobias too. A A...
After hearing for the umpteenth time about a friends mother or father suffering long protracted incurable illness, The thought came to me it's about time the United States got off its high religious horse and started doing something about this. To allow a person with no hope of a cure, living in excruciating pain for months on end to continue to live is a gross crime. Powerful pain killers lose their potency and no longer can do what they are supposed to do. Some kind of panel nee...
This is just a patial list of frequently prescribed addictive pain medicines. Did the supreme court deny medical marijuana because the pharmacutical companies cannot make a profit off of pot? cocaine, amphetamines, barbituates TYLENOL #3 (GENERIC) VICODIN ES 7.5/750MG VICODIN ES 7.5/750MG (GENERIC) VICOPROFEN 7.5/200MG VICOPROFEN 7.5/200MG (GENERIC) diladid BUTAL/ACET/CAFF/COD/50/325/40/30MG BUTAL/CAFF/ASA/COD/50/40/325/30M...
I wake-up, body racked with pain, I eye my morphine and take a Motrin instead. I look at the house knowing it needs a good cleaning, then sit back knowing today I have not the strength for it. I choke down some food, I really don’t want because I know I must eat to keep my strength up. Today I went to get my haircut, the drive, which lasts all of 10 minutes, sucks the life out of me. I look outside at the great California weather and take no joy in it, the sun makes me sicker, the...
A giagantic thank you for any and all that held a good thought for me wednsday, at my time of trials and tribulations. THANK YOU!!! huge hugs for the men and gentle forehead kisses for the gals. NOw, it seems that since I have been treated with an interferon based drug once already and am a partial responder, any more interferon based drugs only has a 5% chance of doing any good. The 2 docs that me and colleen met with for 90 minutes agree further treatment in my case just cannot i...
As I sit here wondering why I am still here {alive} thoughts go rocketing through my head at the speed of, well thought. I have one of those "dates with destiny" the 11th, In just two days I will find out if I at least get a chance to do some more of this life {new drug therapy} or if I am sentenced to ...... well you draw a conclusion. I wonder if I am worthy of a chance at life sometimes, wonder why I lived as my teammates died long ago. So many profound thoughts and so few answe...
For 5 long days I fought the urge to smoke... I lost today. shit!
For a man that has stopped almost every BAD HABIT that a human can have {no I will not go into details} This cigarette habit is the one I just have not been able to get a handle on. I started smoking in 1959 and as of today have been smoke free almost 4 full days. I am losing my fracking mind, but am determined to stay stopped. Focus is something I have lost for now, and I have the ATTENTION SPAN OF A GNAT, So I will be in and out of here time to time, spending most of my time fightin...
Picture this, you are a gay man, walk into a drug store with your partner and try to buy some condoms, the pharmacist refuses to sell condoms because in his mind homosexuality is evil. A female walks into the same store asks for birth control, the drugman says no, birth control is against my religion. A hetrosexual couple walks into the same store,asks for condoms and the druggist asks "are you married?" before selling them or not. This is really happening, right now, here in america...
Well after fighting with my HMO for 9 months to get a second opinion about further treatment for my active hep c virus, it seems that I am going to get my wish. The university of California at Davis has started the ball rolling, with a battery of test this very morning, 9 tubes of blood. Sheeeshhh is someone selling real bad blood somewhere? Lol I was on peg-interon alpha 2 B FOR ONE FRACKING YEAR afterwards with a zero viral load, that shortly climbed to over 2 million, my treatment is...
Ok here it is for the entire world to see. No pity thanks you ahead of time. I went through a series of peg-interon alpha 1a for 12 months and after I was cleared for better things, 4 months later the hep c resurfaced. Slowly I am losing my energy and strength, the beginning of a long downhill slide. I cannot take any more treatments that are available today {maybe a new one will come out soon}. This affects my tolerance and allows my anger to flow freely; THIS is not an excuse fo...