30 Days today--I want to give my thanks
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Aw thank you everyone again for the birthday wishes and the kind words!
It's such a great feeling to know I've been an inspiration to people on here I don't think of myself as inspiring at all! I ask for a lot of people here, and feel like I post for help a lot but I do try and return that so I am glad to hear that has been recognized!
I had a good birthday. My parents are drinking tonight (Apprantly Hurricane Sandy= Time to get drunk) and it's a little weird not to be apart of that, I had a little bit of a craving wishing I could drink, got a little sad that I can't be but overall my sobriety is more important to me and I know I can't just have a few drinks!
As for the pain meds, normally I wouldn't ever go on something like that. But I had necrotic tonsillitis and a throat abscess, it was so bad I couldn't swallow, couldn't eat, could sleep, couldn't talk and then could barely breath, I was in my bed in excruciating pain crying and I NEVER cry from pain (Not when I tore my achilles tendon, not when I had shingles and not even when I got stitches when I was 6), trying to choke down water, if I had a voice I'd probably have been screaming, it was THAT bad. They gave me morphine at the hospital and even that only made a slight difference! So the pain med I was on I really did need, but I only took it for two days once the pain returned to a manageable level I stopped taking it! Just wanted to make sure it didn't seem like I was abusing it or using it when I could have gotten away with something weaker.
It's such a great feeling to know I've been an inspiration to people on here I don't think of myself as inspiring at all! I ask for a lot of people here, and feel like I post for help a lot but I do try and return that so I am glad to hear that has been recognized!
I had a good birthday. My parents are drinking tonight (Apprantly Hurricane Sandy= Time to get drunk) and it's a little weird not to be apart of that, I had a little bit of a craving wishing I could drink, got a little sad that I can't be but overall my sobriety is more important to me and I know I can't just have a few drinks!
As for the pain meds, normally I wouldn't ever go on something like that. But I had necrotic tonsillitis and a throat abscess, it was so bad I couldn't swallow, couldn't eat, could sleep, couldn't talk and then could barely breath, I was in my bed in excruciating pain crying and I NEVER cry from pain (Not when I tore my achilles tendon, not when I had shingles and not even when I got stitches when I was 6), trying to choke down water, if I had a voice I'd probably have been screaming, it was THAT bad. They gave me morphine at the hospital and even that only made a slight difference! So the pain med I was on I really did need, but I only took it for two days once the pain returned to a manageable level I stopped taking it! Just wanted to make sure it didn't seem like I was abusing it or using it when I could have gotten away with something weaker.
Forward we go...side by side-Rest In Peace
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When I broke my arm last year...you bet I used pain meds.
Like you...I stopped as quickly as possible
I did not intend to suggest you were doing them for any reason
other than to manage pain. Sorry if I was not clear...
Like you...I stopped as quickly as possible
I did not intend to suggest you were doing them for any reason
other than to manage pain. Sorry if I was not clear...
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