OT Dena

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Oh, Dena........your dad, you and the rest of your family have my sincerest

sympathy for what you all went through. It is an awful thing to have

something

that is supposed to be helping you to cope turn on you in such an aggressive

way.

 

I think one of the things that pushed me on so strongly to get off the

morphine was watching my parents HAVE TO HAVE those cigarettes.......and then

eventually having those little tobacco filled papers steal both my parents from

and from my children. I miss them so much. I was the baby of the family and

have to admit to being just a little spoiled.....not by money or getting

everything I wanted but by having parents that I knew no matter what, I could

count on to be there for me.

 

I was doing some research when I was taking the Oxycotin and discovered

something that I didn't know......and that was a hundred plus years ago, when

morphine was considered an over-the-counter substance, there were many people

addicted to it. They used it in cough syrup, medicine for babies and children

and doctors frequently gave it to alcoholics to get them to give up drinking and

no one thought anything about it. But it caused many problems back then.

 

I only knew I didn't like the way it made me feel. There are many things

that happened during those 8 months that I can't even remember clearly and I

REALLY don't like that. I told my back surgeon that he needed to rethink

giving your average person Oxycotin after back surgery just because of the

addictive nature of the drug and how hard it is to get off of it by yourself.

I understand that he stopped prescribing it not too long after that. I am sure

I was not the only person who talked to him about it. The only way I would

consent to taking it again would be if I were dying and this was the only thing

that helped with the pain.

 

I do think I am a strong person....when I need to be. It was the way I was

reared and the example that my mom set for me but I also know that what my

children and husband think of me is very important to me so I was HIGHLY

motivated to not feel dependent on a drug and feel normal again.

 

I hope your dad will be able to get the knee replacement surgery soon and once

it is all in place and his rehab is over, that he will be back to a normal,

happy, more healthy frame of mind. I do sincerely feel for him as I know what

chronic pain can do to a person. Tell him for me that he Can hang in and get

back to normal......he just has to make up his mind to do it, and it will be

great when that happens.

 

And as for my award.......no, my REward is having 7 wonderful grown children

that I am so proud of and all of these super grandchildren coming along and a

husband who drives me crazy but whom loves me and that I love.....that is enough

for me. It has been hard this past year after we lost Brittany last

December.....and we will all always miss her so much but someday, someday, I

will see her and everyone else that I have loved and lost, again.

 

Thanks for your kind words.......you are a sweet person.

Nancy C.