A New Medication

    Two days I noticed oil on the driveway where J parks his car. I mentioned it to him and he went to his OCD mode.LOL! He went out there in the dark and that was all he could think about for the rest of the night. So yesterday after my doctor's appointment he wanted me to take it to get the oil changed.
  
    Since M was off of school, she had to go with me to the Pain Doctor. It was a slow morning getting ready. We got there and Dr. P.B. came in and asked how the Lortab was working. I told him that I couldn't take it because it made me sick. He gave me Oxycodone. He wanted to make sure if I said anything to anyone that they knew that it was not Oxycontin. It is basically Lortab without the Tylenol he said. So I can only go off of what he tells me.

    We headed over to the car place. They were very nice and basically the East Coast Salt was hard on the undercarriage. But after M and I waiting there for a couple of hours while they Changed the Oil, Flushed the Brake Fluid and Transmission Fluid. It seemed like it took forever though, but it was done.

    We went to the pharmacy and they said it would only take 45 minutes if I waited. I did not want to go out today so I decided I might as well wait. So 45 minutes turned into 1 hour and 45 minutes. By this time I was so tired and just wanted to get home, it felt like a really long day. And thankfully M thought it was just a fun 'Girls Day'. I guess her standards aren't very high.

    Once we got home we ate and I took one of the new pills. After about 15 minutes I seemed to feel better. The majority of the pain disappeared. Unfortunately for J, I wanted to stay up late and watch TV and look at things on the Internet. The downside is that I can see how people can get addicted to stuff like this. I didn't have the out of it feeling like one would think, but I was able to feel things other than the pain.

    I woke up this morning in pain. After talking with J he said to see if I took another one would help. I wasn't planning to go anywhere. I got up and made M and I Cream of Wheat. Wiped down the entire kitchen. Went through all of these papers on the counter that were building up.  Washed all of the bedding. Really?!? I'm not saying all of the pain was entirely gone, but I was able to do...I feel lost. I take so many pills and one little one that is smaller than a baby aspirin allowed me to get things done.

    Now I have to tell that I am not in bed every single day. I do get up and get M to and from school. I get errands done, but I have pain. My mind and body are an everyday, every moment reminder of the pain. I go back and read posts from April or May and an amazed that I forgot those days. This month it has been 1 year since the symptoms started. I told J last night that if I had this little of pain I could have a job. But the only problem is that now I wouldn't pass a drug test. I don't know.