Medication is Good

Medication is good as long as you don't abuse it. I've got my pills for the dreaded headaches and after taking them for 3 days, I finally awoke to no headache and that's a good thing. I'm paying for the life I've led with all of the aches and pains that one "single white jaded female for life" could possibly handle without giving up. Don't get me wrong. There have been times when that if I had a gun, I would've put it to my head or in my mouth and ended it all but of course, I'm too big and strong and all of those other stupid adjectives that I've been called to do that. I'm also patient and understanding...that statement makes me laugh out loud. ha OK, OK...enough of the sick sarcasm. I've not been abusing my medication like I've done in the past. Sometimes I hurt mentally and physically and I want to sleep and make it go away so I've been known to abuse a pill or 5 every now and then but lately it's just the physical pain that's getting to me. Damn the stairs in my home (and the Jagermeister) for throwing me down them and herniating discs!!! I think that this is something that I'll have to live with the rest of my life or have surgery to repair what's broken...well, not broken, herniated. It's the wierdest pain that I've ever had to deal with because it's not necessarily my neck that hurts...it makes my shoulders hurt, my head hurt, my back hurt...I feel as if I hurt all over some of the time. I wonder if this effects my eyes also because I've noticed a drastic change in my vision and it varies from day to day? Oh well, no one lives forever, not that I'm planning to but I don't think I'll live a long life in the shape I'm in now unless I do something about it and there are no plans in my future for surgery.

Headaches Suck

Headaches suck really bad when you've got no medication for it. Saturday, I gave Son J my prescription and told him to take it to the pharmacy to have it refilled for me. In the meantime, I went over to the neighbor's house to relax and swim in their pool. Son J shows up over there in a few minutes and says they're out...will have to wait til Monday. OK, I think, I've got enough to last me until then. Well when I show up at the pharmacy on Monday at 6 PM, it's not ready....they don't have it in stock. WTF? It figures that last night and today I'd have a headache straight from hell. Why in the hell didn't they order the medication when they knew that I'd be there Monday to pick it up? Someone dropped the ball and know I'm paying for it. I went ahead and paid for the medication last night and told them that I'll be back and pick it up on Tuesday. Well it's Tuesday...will it be there and ready for pick up? It better be because I've got the worst headache and don't want to have to make phone calls to purchase meds illegally...

Loads of fun?

I've been having a pretty good summer so far. I've been to the Urban Animal Joust, a tie-dye party @ Rice University, volunteered at the Roller Derby www.houstonrollerderby.com ,helped my friend with her garage sale 2 weekends in a row and took a week of vacation @ Crystal Beach on the Bolivar Peninsula. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/BB/rrb6.html
Now for the bad things that have happened...my daughters car was stolen & then recovered the next day. Then, today she wrecked the car. My truck broke down while on vacation & my son had to drive back to Houston to get parts for it. Both of my dogs have heartworms and I've only been able to afford treatment for one of them. I'm ready for the bad stuff that's happening to stop and ready for the good things to start. That is life...

A Child's View of Me

A friend of mine's daughter drew this picture of all of us at the beach this past week. Notice how I'm the only one with a bottle. What is this child trying to say about me and no one else?