OT: need dremmel for trepanning

thank you, Roxan...I'm just counting the minutes until Dh gets home and I can slink into the bedroom for some rest a quiet.

~Candace~ your local hemp goddess :)

Are you sure it's not an occipital headache? They really are migraines that won't go away.

Oh I know what causes mine..I went thru enough Cats and MRIs to find out....at first they thought it was a bone plate that never fused, and was literally cutting into my brain! (how's that for scaring the bejeesus out of a then 15 yr old?) But eventually, while I was pregnant with older ds, they figured out that I have a blood vessel wrapped in an odd way around my occipital nerve....and when the blood vessel starts really spasming, like when I'm stressed out, or straining over tiny details a lot, it squeezes the nerve and Bam! Instant migraine.

I have some imitirx, which helps quite a bit, actually, but it knocks me flat on my butt for 8 hours straight, so I don't take it. It got so bad today that as I was fighting thru the urge to revisit my breakfast, I couldn't find the motrin that was literally right in front of my face. Adam, my hubby, found it for me when he came home from work, so I can turn my head now without screaming. :)

If the motrin hadn't helped, I'd be at the ER right now, getting a shot in the butt. THAT always works....and it's nice to be loopy for a while after having so much pain.

~Candace~ your local hemp goddess :)

I am so sorry Candace. I know what you are going through. I hate my headaches worse than any other pain I've had. Yes shattering my leg was the most painful but eventually the pain went away. Headaches just keep us from enjoying life.

I too like be> >Are you sure it's not an occipital headache? They really are migraines that

I can honestly say that the birth of my oldest was the most horrifying pain I've ever had.....but that's another story altogether :) Although, acid treatments on my girly parts was a close second.(sorry, tmi, I know!) And that's where I first started my mantra, btw, lol.

Amen! The guilt just piles up as I'm cradling my head, and Darian is prancing around me, begging to go to the park, or to play video games.....What? You want Mommy to go out into ~what~ light? You want Mommy to listen to ~what~ video game sounds?

a 50 ton elephant that has been pregnant with triplets for 10 years! Come to think of it, once the initial burst of loopiness, where I want to go do stuff I have no business doing, like drive the car..hehe...wears off, all I want to do is sleep....forever.

~Candace~ your local hemp goddess :)

what is Celexa for, if you don't mind me asking?

~Candace~ your local hemp goddess :)

it's a secret bead attracting drug... ya'll didn't think I could be SUCH a bead ho naturally did ya? ha ha.

Ok ok- it's for depression. Works great and has very few side effects.

hahahahahahahahaha! I'm glad you were able to have it covered! Meds (especially depression related) are far too damn costly these days.

~Candace~ your local hemp goddess :)

Which is why someday..I hope to be able to afford private health insurance...but right now, we can't, so it's MediCaid for us...and I feel bad about people not only paying for their meds, but ours too, thru taxes :(

~Candace~ your local hemp goddess :)

You WISH. ~~ Sooz

------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links

On Thu, 13 May 2004 2:18:35 -0400, Candace wrote (in message ):

I can't imagine that anyone in their right mind would object to paying for medication for people who truly need it. I get upset when I hear my tax money is going for $800 toilet seats or the city park that was built in the median strip of a nearby highway, not for things that help people.

Medicine, food, housing and education are things I'd never complain about. Even people who are totally anti-taxation must realize that these expenditures save a heck of a lot more money than they cost. And hon, if you run into anyone that wants to make you feel bad about needing a helping with with the outrageous cost of medication, just send them to me. I'd be happy to have a little talk with them.

Kathy N-V

Oh heck, Kathy, I get that all the damn time! Everytime I go to WalMart to fill yet another prescription for ds's chronic yeast infections, or use my EBT (foodstamp) card for groceries..I get all kinds of evil glares and snorts of derision! I'm used to it.

I did get the one up on this one gal tho...she gave me her sassy little comment about my EBT card, which I ignored, as I had the kids with me, and I walked away. Realising that Tyler had dropped his toy at the checkout, I walked back only to find her withdrawing cash from HER EBT account!(It might be pride, but we refused to ask for cash assistance, so we only have foodstamps) So I said...hhhmmm... at least the taxpayers know I'm using their money for feeding my kids....unlike you..Miss..Oh-My-Gawd- I just haaaaave to buy this electric shaver for my overgrown legs! and I walked away. :)

~Candace~ your local hemp goddess :)

I know what you mean. I got dirty looks when I had food stamps (not a card) and was on welfare. My kids were always fed, we had a roof over our heads, and we were healthy. I couldn't have asked for more.

If you need financial assistance don't hesitate to ask. I know that pride sometimes gets in the way. I needed it at one point and it helped me out a lot.

LOL! Candace, the title of your post scared me for a minute!

-Kalera

Two other things that should be added to this list of things that should be available to all citizens is addiction treatment, and mental health services.

I was talking to friends about the outrageous statistics for young black men jailed. It works out that just about every two families have someone with significant jail experience. So being in jail is a NORMAL part of the growing-up-black experience. How do we stop this disaster? Can't just stop upholding the law.

In my Justice classes, I was struck with how closely the description of a criminal (vs just a f**k-up) resembles the description of an alcoholic (vs a person who sometimes drinks too much). The similarity is that these are both behavioural addictions. There is very often a physical addiction going on too, including with the criminal behaviour addiction. This is the reason a "War on Drugs" was declared. However, the use of power and jailing is not helping that "War", and if anything is making it worse.

So what would work? Why, the same thing that was working for drug abuse and jail statistics before the "War on Drugs" began, and was working successfully. Ironically, the man responsible for initiating the war on drugs, is the man who had the best program to decrease drug use. In his first term, Reagan pushed through programs so that anyone who wanted treatment for chemical abuse could get it. The results of this showed up at the end of his first and beginning of his second term. But in his second term, Reagan changed tactics and declared a "War on Drugs". And the bad statistics rocketed back up there.

An "in patient" drug program costs about a third of what low security jail does per person. The rate of recidivism is bad. A drug program (especially a short one, like a month) works for about one in 5 or 10. But contrast that with the cost of jail --3 to 30 times the cost. Contrast the much worse statistics for recidivism for jail. And contrast being in jail and learning from your social surroundings, with being in a place of recovery and learning from your social surroundings.

Drug rehab is much cheaper!! And while it teaches about substance addiction, it is simultaneously teaching about behavioural addiction -- like an addiction to criminal behaviour, or addiction to Co-Dependence, etc.

The other program that has been trashed has been Community Mental Health. Instead of taking people who are marginal and turning them into productive citizens, the mental health programs are changing to crisis management. They are limiting the number of times a person can get therapy to something like 5 or 10 visits, and most of this is going to people who are about to boil over into violence

Tina

"Kathy N-V" wrote...