Starting to understand why red states might be voting against Medicaid and SSI

[madokie]

44. This all leaves

those of us who have a legitimate need for pain meds wondering what next.
I take one pill every six hours as prescribed and have for 10 plus years. I don't take two pills nor do I sell or give any pills away. I take them as prescribed.

Its been so long ago that I got a high from my pain meds I can't even remember what it was like or when it was. If I make a mistake and take a second pill say 2 hours after the first one I'm sick to my stomach and can't find a place to lay down and sleep it off fast enough. How anyone can take a hand full of pain meds at one time is beyond me.

Like I said I take one pill every six hours, not four, not 7 but every six hours. 6 am, 12 noon, 6 pm, 12 midnight. I'm up at that hour taking a leak anyway so I take my med.

If I skip one the pain comes back with a vengeance so I try not to miss a dose. it takes about 10 hours if and the few times I've forgotten to take a pill before this happens so I have somewhat of a window to medicate in but then it takes a day or two to get the meds in my system back at a level where I'm relatively pain free.

Get off my ASS is what I'm saying.

Quit sending our kids to where they grow poppies by the fields and maybe just maybe some of them won't come back with a problem.
I was sent to Vietnam where pot was 200 piaster, (2 MPC)(2 US dollars,) and plentiful. That plus the worries of war and a need to escape ever so brief and it wasn't long before I tried it and wound up smoking pot for 40 years. When I graduated from high school in may of '67 I was not aware of marijuana at all. When I was heading off to war my dad said something to me that made me wonder what the hey. He said don't take cigarettes from strangers was what he said. I had no idea what he meant but that for the longest time. Then I found pot and the rest is history. In other words Vietnam turned on a bunch of us to weed who wouldn't have tried it otherwise. Same with Opium/heroin and todays troupes in Afghanistan

War is an admission of failure.
nothing more or nothing less