Beyond the Pain

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 overdosed (more on that experience later).

Thanks to a quick acting wife; a 911 call; and a very responsive EMS team I AM ALIVE! THANKS ERIN,  (EM Tech)!!

I’m still ‘coming down’ from the SR Morphine, so I am running hot and  itching like crazy (turns out I am ‘sensitive’ to Morphine) till the Reactine(R) kicks in.

Sheesh! What am I NOT sensitive to?

This is a hell of a way to start the weekend.

I am going to be doing a series of posts on this subject. I will explain how this happened, in the hopes others will learn from my ‘mistakes’.

Happy Belated Thanksgiving! I am thankful for my LIFE! And, for dedicated EM Techs like Erin who loves her job! We had a great chat as the Narcan shut down my Opiate receptors — image little Pac Men (R) cruising your veins, running around shutting down the Opiate Receptors. I could literally FEEL a burning in my veins as the receptors were disconnected.

As more and more receptors disconnected, I became more alert. That’s how the EMT’s “KNEW” I’d overdosed — Narcan is THE Antidote for Morphine.

I am grateful to God that I am here to ‘tell the tale!”

I’m done for now.

Stay tuned for more insights, information, ideas, and encouragement.

After 9 months I was finally able to write a new newsletter today.  YEAH!!!

That happy event took place because of, at least, three things.

1. Less pain
2. More energy (mainly psychic although the physical IS important)
3. A new strategy

The first two things are pretty obvious. So, I want to focus on the new writing strategy.

But, before I do that I just want to make the observation that it took 9 months to come up with this idea. That gives you some idea of how stupid-making Fibromyalgia can be. My brain was like a V8 firing on 2 cylinders. Couple that with very little 'up' time and you have a recipe for not getting much accomplished.

Okay, back to the strategy.

The germ of the idea came to me the other day when I was thinking about Twitter. You can read about the Twitter concept here. Twitter limits Tweets (your message to the Twitterverse) to 140 characters.

I've been yearning to write for months. Suddenly when thinking about Twitter I had an idea: What if I set a limit for myself of writing a 140 word newsletter? Then, today, I thought: What if I aim to write AND publish it in an hour?

So, I gave it a shot! And, IT WORKED!

I'm so excited!!

And, I'm going to try the strategy again by applying the principle to writing my blog posts.