help with home detox part 3

[kj0975]

At the Dr's office I used to work at they would tell all the patients Mucinex and I have tried it too and works great. Hope you feel better really soon.

[mikiglen]

you're right, exactly. i'm STILL not to the point where i could find a bottle of pills and dump them, i know. people that do that are just so awesome in my book. i used to could do that with no problem, and did.....man, i just want my nine years back
ended up not going out at all, just too tired.
will stick with cough drops tonite and a dose of the kids meds...then maybe tomorrow i'll feel like walking to the store
thank God miki is out of school tomorrow....
i think a lot of this is due to the damn weather changes...i GOT sick when the cold front came through and we got the snow...i am STAYING sick cause now it's friggin 80 degrees tomorrow
i hate texas

[mikiglen]

hell, i know i mentioned this a few weeks ago, but update: first of all, i don't drink. i am an alcoholic, and have not had a drink since feb 3, 1993, and haven't wanted one
BUT, the last month or so, my previously "dry" area has become "wet", and i have been innundated with alcohol while shopping.
funny story...TWICE now, i have tried to buy wine coolers...some flavor i have never even heard of, didn't even really want, just wanted to feel "altered". the first time, they wouldn't scan. the second time, i didn't have my license with me and they needed it.
maybe i'm just not supposed to drink again, ya think?

[Sugah]

Doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves....

Peace & Love,
Sugah

[mikiglen]

sugah

HUGS TO YOU, I MISS YOU

[mikiglen]

ah hell, don't know why i thought tomorrow was a school holiday...it's just a day care holiday
damn

[TexasDumb]

Mikiglen,

Not scanning and no ID with you, (you MUST look young, at least!) ...----sounds like a SIGN to me.

You haven't drank in 17 years! WOW, that's incredible! I wish I could say that.

You know at least as well as I do, one has to always BE CAREFUL and WARY of that little inner demon voice that says, "Oh, it's been SO long, you've done SO good, one little drink would not hurt, COME 'ON LET'S HAVE SOME FUN!..."

And it MIGHT not HURT, but God help us if it does!

By the way, I do not even like alcohol, ESPECIALLY the taste.
I like the funny buzz, but mostly I used beer to, as you wrote: 'feel altered.'
More accurately in MY world, to get NUMB and NUMBER, or DUMB and DUMBER!

That night when I would drink, after about 4-8 beers, no worries mate!

But, they come back with a VENGANCE and worse than before...took me a long time to realize and admit that to myself...I "THOUGHT" I could do BOTH.

I can't.

Alcohol took away ALL my energy and my "WANT-TO." And it took a whole lot of my time!
I am not one of those drinkers who can drink and still get stuff done. I can with a "few" beers, but after a few more, all I do is drink a "few more."

Best thing I could do for myself was just to quit all together.
AND, it only took me about 10-15 years to figure that out, admit it, and then do something about it....see why I include the word DUMB in my name.

For a SMART guy, I can be the DUMBEST!

Or maybe I am just an incurable OPTIMIST, and feel I AM so TOUGH and BULLET-PROOF that I can do it ALL and still function well enough to beat most tasks required.

Maybe when I was younger and expelled alcohol from my system a lot faster than now, I could get away with it.

NOT ANYMORE!
It SAPS all my strength.
And worse, it does it so STEALTHILY that I get used to it and ALL seems normal.

AND then, I AM performing at a way-much lower level than I can and should be!

But, that's just me.

I have a lot of friends that can get "TORE-UP" on occasions and seem to have no lingering problems or issues.
But, for me, boo-hoo, those days are ALL used up in MY world....

By the way, did I tell you that yesterday was MY birthday! I am 39,.......... again!

[mikiglen]

i used to drink until i would black out, but i only drank when out "partying" on weekends and stuff....i was definitely an alkie, tho, cause i couldn't stop
i don't want to drink for the reasons i used to...have fun, party, etc....i wanted to drink to feel effed up, ya know?
i'm glad they didn't go through....looking back, i really don't like the way i felt...i don't want to be drunk at home with my kids. pain pills kept me energized, happy and focused....alcohol will just make me fuzzy and stupid.,...and not solve anything
it was just a desire to feel different, i know i wouldn't have liked it

oh, happy belated birthday...what did y'all do? what did your girls give you?

[lexirott]

Mis- as far as the alcohol goes I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason......
By the way hon, how are you feeling?

[Alera]

Originally Posted by mikiglen

ah hell, don't know why i thought tomorrow was a school holiday...it's just a day care holiday
damn

It may vary by state, it is a school holiday here.

[leeside]

That's two bullets you dodged Misti! Alcohol is just another drug and you don't want to throw away everything you worked so hard for.

[TexasDumb]

Misti,

I understand the effing up, exactly.

I NEVER hardly drank away from my house, because I am scared to death of DWIs and the mainly the $8,000 it would cost.
I usually drank late at night at home, after everyone went to bed. Duh?

You asked what did me and my girls do for my birthday???....I took them out for my birthday.

We went to Chuck E. Cheese's and had a blast.

Then I took them to Dollar Tree, gave them each $5 and turned them loose to buy me a birthday present.

It was hilarious.

They picked out some really neat things for me (flashlight and batteries, a Micky Mouse coffee mug, a Winnie the Poo Frisbie,) and used one of their dollars to get real pretty gift bags to put them in.

The little redhead got me a red ribbon that says: "I'm a BIG GIRL!," that I am "SUPPOSED" to wear....wonder where she got THAT KIND of humor from???? She also got me these weird light-stick necklace things.....

And then I gave them $5 each to buy themselves something they could pick out...

We ate out a bunch...You can't keep food in the oldest daughter..she has MY speedy-little-metabolism and has to eat massive quantities about every two hours, like a bird.

I bought them some clothes and new shoes (even though I pay a ton (25% of my income) already each month to cover clothes and shoes,) some $1 cartoon DVDs that they picked out and other stuff....

Then we stopped by my millionaire brother's house on the way home so he could give me my birthday present...he had called my cell and said, "I got you something, it's not much, but I have you something...."

Not much, huh? Sure, it was a very appropriate and very thoughtful card for what I am going through right now in my life, with a $100 bill in it!

Rich, sucker-bill!

Then we took his little Japanese mini-truck (that he calls "THE MUTT") and rode down to check on his 6 chicken houses.

The kids always get a kick out of seeing 28,000 chickens in one place!

Today, we went to church, then my kids played hard all day with our new next door neighbor's great kids ...they had a picnic in my front yard, they washed the new kid's mom's Suburban, (or kinda), they rode their bikes, skated, and we all walked down to the City Park/Playground that is one block from my house..

All in all, a great weekend for kids and Dad, yahoooooooooo!
Go DADDY, GO DADDY, IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

And I am still just 39, amazing huh?
And I am getting better and better, and have even started to work out aerobically again, which does ME incredible good - physically and mentally, if I can just keep it up on a scheduled routine!

Thanks for asking, sorry for giving such a play by play, minute by minute...but I kinda have not had much ADULT CONVERSATION or CONTACT all weekend, and as much as I ENJOY and LOVE my daughters, it's not the same.

Talk/write to you soon,

[mikiglen]

sounds like you had a lot of fun....jon's birthday is coming up (april fools baby lol), and i can't wait. i was opposite you in my drinking...i started when i was 15 and drank til almost 22 ONLY when i went out with a group of people. never had alcohol in my house or anything...but when i went out, i would start with beer, then start mixing in shots....end up home having no idea how i got there or where my car was. don't miss that, nope.
i am feeling about the same as i have all week, a little bit better chest wise but worse cough wise for some reason. i went to walgreens and mucinex is an expectorant...i didn't want that, i wanted a cough SUPPRESANT, so i got some offbrand tylenol cold...it's got tylenol, plus something for my nose, and a cough suppressant. i'll take it in a bit, i'm ok at the moment. i'll wait for scratchy throat to hit again. i did better last nite, took some of the kids liquid (yummy) meds about every three hours when the coughing fits hit, and it got me through the nite
ok, well, no work today, so off to change peepee beds and clean house

[mikiglen]

hey, alera, nice to see you posting here
the DAYCARE had a sign saying holiday feb 19th, and for some reason, i thought there was no school as well. wasn't til whatever time last nite when i wondered about it and got on the schools website that i found out there is school today
we had a nice sleeping in day of rest planned...i almost didn't take her, but that wouldn't be very responsible, just lazy
ummmm, has anyone seen that britney's "hair" is going for like 99,999,999.000 on ebay? yep, all those nines are correct. what kind of idiot would pay that for a strand of hair???????

[mikiglen]

has anyone ever taken pamelor? i was prescribed it last week to help with migraines, but am thinking of finally getting it filled (funny, how i'm so scared to take meds except opiates, lol)
wondering if there are any/many side effects? he said it would help my head, but also help me sleep...you know i hate grogginess, big trigger...that's why i haven't started it yet
don't know if i want to try it or not, i also wonder since it is an antidepressant, if it might help me in that regard
i took it like 15 years ago when i first had my aneurysm clipped, but don't remember anything about it

[woops]

Miki - if Pamelor is Elavil - then yes I have been prescribed it in the past.

I note your worry about grogginess being a trigger - and that is exactly how I have felt too. I took elavil for about 4 days (some time ago now) and felt so wiped out by it the next day that I got rid of the rest - for me - it was too dangerous. Was beginning to think that I would have to take some opiates to give me some energy............... it was a catch 22 situation.

Take care.

Woops

[mikiglen]

actually, pamelor is NORtriptyline, and elavil is AMItryptilline
i don't know the difference, i should probably ask ten (speaking of ten, where's tenn?)
i hate to pay for a prescription i won't even take, maybe i just shouldn't get it...i don't know....

[Smyle]

hey miki...I posted some info about it on the mommies thread...it is like a cousin to elavil...they are both tricyclic antidepressant..

some side affects are drowsiness--dizziness-nervousness--headaches--dry mouth--insomnia--

but again that is not in everyone...that drug has been around for a long time.

If you took it before I would think it could not hurt to try it again..I am pretty sure it is not that expensive.

good luck and get to feeling better....

[TexasDumb]

Mikiglen,

So, doing the math, YOU must really/actually BE 39 years old!
I just play one on TV. But, I am KEEPING this role.

I hope the Tylenol cold medicine helped you...you have been through H..E..DOUBLE L lately, huh?

[mikiglen]

what math?
i'm actually 36, will be 37 in april....
i started at 15, stopped at 22 (feb, 1993)....that means i would have turned 23 in 1993, thus born in 1970, thus turning 37 in 2007
you graduate some aggie school or sumpin?
oops, i said "almost 22" should have been almost 23

[mikiglen]

hmmmmmmmmmmmm, i saved jon's ponytail from when he got it cut
its dark at the top, light towards the ends, kinda like britney's
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
all that money.....

[chichi]

Hey miki,
Just wanted to pop in here and say hi to you. It sounds like you're feeling a little better -- so glad to hear that. Take care of yourself, angel. In addition to your OTC meds, please make sure you're drinking plenty of fluids and getting as much rest as possible (of course you know that, but sometimes mommies need to be reminded of the "rest" part because that's the hardest part of the prescription).
xoxoxox, chichi

[mikiglen]

hey, chichi, how ya been?
i am feeling better FINALLY....mainly it's bad in the evenings and at nite
now, i'm just being lazy. i need to be working, but have no motivation
that is my goal. today, sometime today, i will download these scripts and hunt some leads down.
maybe i can work at least a few hours tomorrow, even though i don't want to at all
down to about three weeks i think on the refund.....car, rent totally paid, finally a crib for jakey, and some other necessities......like a week full of fast food...what i wouldn't do for a big greasy cheeseburger, or some tacos from taco bueno.....oooooooooooooooooooh......
i'm bad, so very bad

[chichi]

No, I don't think so. Normal, I'd say, for someone who's been so sick and taking care of little ones. We all have those kind of days when we feel so unmotivated and just can't seem to get going, but most especially when we're feeling unwell. You'll feel better soon and you'll pull it all together and get right back on track. I know you will.
As for greasy cheeseburgers, well, I'm almost always in the mood for one of those. Cheeseburgers and pizza. I have the palate of a teenager. I've got two of them and we eat very well together when I don't feel guilty about feeding them healthy food (which is most of the time, unfortunately.) We all have our own brand of mommy guilt, eh?
I'm doing ok. Thanks for asking. Except our very large boiler broke Saturday night and we're still trying to get someone to install a new one. Our insurance company can't send someone to look at the broken one because it's a holiday (huh?) and it's freeeezing cold here. The only good news is that we caught it before it exploded -- we would have had a carbon monoxide leak and a fire in our basement in addition to just NO HEAT. Now we also have pipes bursting in our garage and all sorts of other freaky things happening. Ah, the pleasures of owning a home...ha ha. They'll all get fixed but it won't be soon enough for moi. I'm spending time online looking for hotel rooms this afternoon..lol!! And the beat goes on. Still, I'm glad to be clean.
Take care, chichi

[mikiglen]

aw man.....if you're gonna have to get a hotel, at least splurge and make it fun....in room jacuzzi, indoor pool.....