Just calming down from a crazy 12 hours in Emergency! My pain has become so bad that my family doc prescribed Morphine! Unfortunately, due to a miscommuication betwixt us, I thought I was on ‘regular’ Morphine. Not true! I was given “Sustained Relief” morphine. So, I took it like regular Morphine. BIG MISTAKE! I accidentaly…
In the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus asked those of his followers who were with him to “keep on the watch with me”. However, while he was praying they fell asleep. Waking them he said, “the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.” I don’t know about you, but sometimes my ‘flesh’ seems awfully weak….
Unemployment Soars! Another Canadian Soldier Dies In Afganistan! 7-Year Old Girl Sexually Assaulted! Crud, I so love listening to the news on my radio — NOT! It’s not like I wasn’t already feeling mucho stressed — which I KNOW because my Fibro pain has returned … and with a vengance! So, on my walk this…
I am in a dark, dreary, place soaking in melancholy. And, I LOVE it! The part of my brain that has an ounce of intellect left recognizes this “feeling”. My old FAMILIAR: the “dark side” of my Muse. In her ground breaking work, “Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and The Artistic Temperament“, author and manic-depressive,…
This poem is especially for Howard P. COURAGE Cowards are we all, Who easy choices make. Fear whispers In every ear, Few choose not, To heed. Seldom to us Is given Greatness. Yet, It is not The Grand Acts That make us Great. Rather, Small choices, Carved out of despair; Forged in pain: Choosing life’s…
1st the Back Story… My mother, actually step-mom who raised me from the age of 6, had a ‘substantial’ heart attack March 10th. At first we, the family, thought she had skated through with little damage. However, as time passed and information trickled in from her care givers — an immensely frustrating aspect of our…
The February 2006 issue of Psychology Today reports on a study at Boston University. Professor Glenn Saxe that giving children large doses of morphine following a serious burn or accident will reduce the number of post-traumatic stress disoder (PTSD) symptoms. Researchers are uncertain if it’s just the morphine or if anything that reduces pain will…
When reading When The Body Says No I was struck by Gabor Mate’s description of many pain sufferers as "strongly independent" and able to endure a great amount of pain. One who might be called stoic. His words so fit my experience. The phrases, "suffer in silence", "tough guys don’t cry", and "suck it up….