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And I forgot to add: those of us who're in pain aren't taking medications or MM for the sheer joy of it. We are in pain! Pain is as medical a condition as is anything else. Honestly, it took long enough for there to be less stigma about so-called mental illness--which is just as physiological as kidney disease or heart disease or. . . .; it's just that our brain chemicals are involved--so now the stigma has shifted to people who're in pain? No, not all of us are drug/opioid addicts. Again: Grrrrrrr.
Hazel
Mikween, I received a catalogue from the Vermont Country Store yesterday, and they offer hemp oil. I think it's blended with a bunch of other stuff, however. Anyway, they're online. Take a look at their "old-time remedies." I don't know if their hemp oil is strong enough to help, granted.
Hazel
Not to be curmudgeonly here, but I will just add a point from my perspective. My wife battled her war with brain cancer for over 14 years. During those 14 years she never wanted for the pain medications that were necessary for her health and as good a wellbeing as was possible under the circumstances. She was on a daily cocktail consistently made up of over 20 medicines with over 30 doses a day, which took a long time to formulate and which over time, due to the fact the human body can build up tolerances to almost any medication, changed often over those years. It was never simple, but we also understood the complexity of her disease, medical team, condition, etc. required a great deal of understanding, compassion, and often patience on both sides.
Yes there were hoops we had to jump through for some of her medications, but given the national emergency we are experiencing with opioids we both viewed them as understandable. Frustrating, but never kept her from her needed meds.
As I said, just one view from one bedside.
WOW! I haven't had such nice things said to me since that cute young thing wanted an A in the collegiate Public Speaking 303 class I was teaching. Thank you. I try to help.
Our terrier - looks like a Manchester - was picked up on the streets of San Bernardino, flown to Seattle by a rescue group, shown at a dog fair, seen by our daughter, who told us about him, and we drove there and adopted him and brought him home to Oregon. We don't know much about his history or age.
My McNabb we adopted a year ago from the local humane society, unknown age. I've trained her to be my psychiatric service dog. I don't know her background.
Both dogs had fear issues, but they've done well here with lots of space to explore and play. They both had been pets before, have good food attitudes, and knew basic commands.
They've been a lot easier to adopt than puppies would have been. We love puppies, especially on So Cute on TV, but they surely are a lot of work.
Pete and Sadie have definitely become family. Pete's my wife's dog and Sadie's attached to me at the hip.
Jim
Where do you live? Maybe I should establish a residence there and see your wife's doctors. Our son lives in Indianapolis, and we've been there and don't want to live in that climate.
Having all of her meds available must surely have made your job easier.
Jim
How wonderful that you've adopted dogs! As we say in Yiddish, that's a true mitzvah. They must both be so happy with you. And how terrific that McNabb is your psychiatric service dog. A good friend of mine has trained her dog to be a psychiatric service dog, too, and she's happily working in Boston, with her dog at her side. What a difference a service dog makes!
I love puppies--and kittens--too, but yes, they are SO much more work than adult dogs and cats!
Our critters are definitely our family. We don't have kids. Or, rather, our kids have four legs.
I just saw that there was a "cat day" in Minnesota. Can't remember if it was in St. Paul (we lived there before we moved to Florida) or Minneapolis. Eleven thousand people turned out in the baseball park to watch cat videos and wear costumes and have a great time! I think this was the third time that's been done. My husband and I need to go back to MN to experience this some time!
Hazel
Hi @jimhd We were in NW Indiana at the time, but I owe a ton of this to the support and assistance we received from her neuro-oncologist at Mayo, who worked closely with us all 14 years and often took the lead over my wife's GP. After living in Minnesota I can say the winters aren't all that bad up here either!
I've lived in Bloomington, IN, and in St. Paul, MN. The winters in IN are GENTLE compared to those in St. Paul!
Hazel, who misses winter, although we do get snowflakes and sometimes the snow even sticks; temperatures in winter go down to about 19 degrees F, and we get killing frosts
Peach, totally and utterly agree with you on this. No one seems to comprehend that there are those of us who are in PAIN and who genuinely need pain medications. When I think of the pain and the nausea that people with cancer have when they go through chemo, and how they, in a weakened state, have to fight to get medication--or MM--to help them, it infuriates me. You can bet that our lawmakers don't stint themselves when they're in pain. Grrrrrrrrrrr. (This is what happens when you live in a state capital and get to see politics up close and dirty.)
Hazel