Low_Budget_Hooker Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 Sad thing is, alot more guys/girls will be returning with the same effects. It's all common sense conditioning, certainly nothing to be ashamed of, but I imagine it would be frustrating trying to tell your instinctive mind that it is safe. Conditioning that kept you alive is now holding you hostage. I hope time helps heal some wounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest avid Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 IMHO. I doubt VERY seriously if any of us would have replied to this thread, if we didn't believe the very same things ya'll have said. When I signed up, I wrote something to the effect of wishing to share a boat or pond with everyone here. I still feel the same way.......except X3... As Ever, Skillet Hey Skillet. Who is "X3" and why won't you fish with him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaparockArk Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 On a trial basis, I am back but in an extremely limited capacity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest the_muddy_man Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 WELCOME BACK ILL PM YOU ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest avid Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Yo!! P_Rock iz in da house 8-) Glad to see you posting. Hope all is well. As you see, we are still here. Talk to ya avid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishbear Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 P_Rock, ' Glad to see you back and posting even on a limited basis,,, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low_Budget_Hooker Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Oh man,...here we go again. I had a mini migraine this weekend, happens every once in a while, doesn't always mean the beginning of a cluster but then last night I had a kip 9 migraine (KIP is the "pain" scale, 1-10) Those are no joke. There is no standing up, no ability to vocalize anything, etc. Getting to the bathroom to puke involves crawling. Unfortunately I am out of Imitrex right now. Looks like THAT'S gotta change TODAY! This sucks, been up since 4am with a long day ahead of me at an inner city school with United Way. It's career day. Just needed to vent a second, the anxiety is building up fearing another cluster. Being caught w/ no Imitrex is no joke and a fool move on my part. Never again. oh yeah,......Howdy P_Rock!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest avid Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Carrying meds at all times is a pain in the butt. I forget sometimes too. Then the episode hits and all the inconvenience pales to insignificance. Keep your meds handy dude. The reduced anxiety alone is worth the hassle. Feel better, and take care of yourself. your comrade in pain, avid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillet Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Avid, I was going to try and come up with something about X3 being this voice coming from deep within my tackle box, but couldn't pull it off. I will say how much your sense of humor helps lighten things when needed. We drove down to Killeen, TX for the birth of our 2nd grandchild and it was like bringing a drug store with us (for me).The great thing (everyone keep their fingers crossed) is, I've only got about another 10 days and and most of the meds will stop. If all the tests are as good as they have been so far it will be permanent LBH hope you made it thru the day OK... As Ever Skillet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest avid Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 I still fight it sometimes, but I'm kinda resigned to the fact that as we get older medications become a fact of life. I really struggled with the decision to go for the second shoulder surgery, but i have the tennins elbow too and it is basically a chronic condition. I can live with the elbow, but the shoulder pain is very deep, and when it acts up my right arm is barely usable. I hate pain but I hate painkillers also. I take a little aspirin for the heart ya' know, maybe some tylenol but I really don't like the heavyweight pain killers. they kill the pain fer sure but they get me jittery for some reason. stay well everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiskKid. Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Ouch LBH, hope your day went better and you picked up those meds. Bummer Avid, hope this next surgery puts it all behind you. None of it's any fun. It makes me feel how blessed I am. To lighten things up and hopefully give folks a chuckle or two I think about some times I have a problem with my colostomy appliance and it's a ways off before I can take care of it. I get frustrated but at least there is no pain. Instead it's a "poop & stink a thon" . The funniest was at a corporate outing at a really fancy hotel that had a bowling alley. We were having this bowling tournament and I went up to throw my gutter ball when all of a sudden the bag gave way and it was "holy sh.....t" all over my pants and down the leg . I had to excuse myself from the tournament and make my way clear across this big hotel to get to my room with everyone along the way holding there nose and looking at me like I was some sort of freak. Then I had to get the laundry to take the clothes to clean them....hate to think what they thought. Anyway I just thought I'd post this in hopes it will bring a chuckle for everyone, after all is said and done I always find these episodes pretty amusing and have to laugh at the situation. I have a few more funny ones that I'll post fron time to time in hopes that it will bring some humor to the thread......they say laughter and smiles are the best medicine.....Good health all and keep on smiling! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaparockArk Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 I know about meds having a morning basket and a night basket. The morning basket has only four bottles of must take with two bottles of as needed. The night basket has six bottles of must takes with four bottles of as needed and I HATE taking pills but what are you going to do? If I could convert my pill budget into my reel budget I could get all new top of the line Shimano Stella, Calcutta DC and Calais DC Casting reels. Then I could show off to Roadwarrior. However, I would be unable to use them. There is always that catch 22. Hope you are feeling better LBH. I have one of my meds if I forget to take it I get a reminder of a symptom similar to having a migraine and being sea sick at the same time and believe me you DO NOT want to go there so I feel for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low_Budget_Hooker Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 This is just a very special word about some VERY special people. www.clusterheadaches.com I am a member on the forum board there and these people are some of the finest alive. As we here share our passion for bass fishing, they share stories, med experiences and just about everything having to do with CH (cluster headache). I show uo once or twice a year and they accept me back like I never left (because in my heart, I haven't) These people support each other at a level I've never seen anywhere before other than by soldiers on a battlefield. They also have a section for supporters (wives, husbands, family of the afflicted) This section offers great explanations and guidance for supporters, great stuff and priceless info. This affliction we share has ruined many lives. My life would not be enjoyed at the level it is without these people. Many are much more knowledgeable concerning CH than many doctors and are happy to help you. Of course, they are not doctors so you need to be careful of what you believe but on a general level, they have guided me through trial and error with many different preventative and abortive drugs, etc. and have reduced my suffering greatly. Just having people who understand and are willing to listen is huge. Their knowledge is just another bennie. I just wanted to give a public thank you to these folks and let anyone reading who suffers from CH to know that there is a place,....with great people,....who care. Just like here. A very heartfelt "thank you" to the creators, owners, staffers and members of www.clusterheadaches.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low_Budget_Hooker Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 A little something I pulled from a members signature on that board that I think many, if not all the BFFF's can relate to whether it's your wife, brother, buddy, whatever..... "No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy." Muddy has called every day, just to check on me since this cluster began. I've spent a few nights at the hosp. this week and a half and coming home to a call from him really means something. Stratosdadri, same thing. Couple times a day, he IM's me to see where I stand and see what I need. Support sure does help. Thanks guys and goodnight, I'm goin' to bed,...FINALLY!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaparockArk Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 I am glad to here you are doing better LBH. Support is always welcome especially when we are in pain. Speaking of pain and it being April 16 the day after so to speak, my part after my insurance paid 80% of all my medical bills my part for last year came to $18,000. Now that was a completely new level of pain don't you know. Oh well, if I did not spend it on medical I would just splurge it all away on top of the line fishing gear that would leave me with no excuses for why I didn't catch any fish on a particular day. Then where would I be? : Hope you keep improving! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest avid Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Oh well, if I did not spend it on medical I would just splurge it all away on top of the line fishing gear that would leave me with no excuses for why I didn't catch any fish on a particular day. Then where would I be? You'd be looking at $18,000.00 of super deluxe fishng equipment and an empty livewell. :-* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaparockArk Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Don't forget and NO excuses! ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest avid Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Don't forget and NO excuses! ;D a fisherman with no excuses? Never met one yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishbear Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 My wife says I can come up with more excuses for not catching fish than she can for not cooking dinner..... ;D ;D :o :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest avid Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 My wife says I can come up with more excuses for not catching fish than she can for not cooking dinner..... ;D ;D :o :o My wife has a "headache" since 1986. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest the_muddy_man Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 My wife went out for cigarettes in 1982, oh wait I think thats her Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaparockArk Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Taking that long to find home might be "Alzheimer's ." So are bad jokes the result of "Wisenheimer's" ;D It seems Yale has been doing a Clinical study of Wisenheimer's Disease I thought of you Muddy. There may be hope for you after all! The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine Chicago (January 20, 2007) Entitled Wisenheimer's Disease, an exhibition of photomontages by James F. Cleary, B.F.A., as part of its ongoing Anatomy in the Gallery contemporary art program. The exhibitions will run concurrently, opening on February 2, 2007, with a free, public reception from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. and remaining on view through April 20, 2007. Both these medical expertsDettmer with the meticulous precision of a neurosurgeon and Cleary with the evident glee of a mad scientist offer their expert opinion for those in need. Postoperative features a variety of objects that have gone under Dettmer's knife, including 11 serious addicted bass fishermen that he dissected one layer at a time by carving through their covers and excising everything but images and ideas of interest to reveal the hidden relationships of their innards. Also on display will be a skull and a full-size, anatomically correct human skeleton that Dettmer molded from cassette tape shells for AC/DC's Back in Black and other such albums, reinterpreting the phrase dead medium. Wisenheimer's Disease comprises a series of stages of the progressive stages depicting Cleary's apocalyptic vision of humankind's degeneration resulting from Do It Yourself **** Improvement. Although the monstrous creatures that Cleary produces by reconfiguring and satirically defacing these former bass addicts offer harsh criticism of body modification and genetic engineering, the surgeon confesses that he suffers from the same disease as the scientists he condemnshe simply delights in making monsters. Cleary counts as his greatest artistic influences his older brother's college anatomy textbooks and Mad Magazine collection, which he discovered simultaneously at the age of five. He received his titular B.F.A. from the School of the Bass Massters' Institute in Chicago in 1990 and now resides in Minneapolis, where his work has been shown at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Rogue Buddha Gallery. HE, HE, Got you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest the_muddy_man Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 WOW NOW ME AND AVID CAN GO TO GRAD SCHOOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest avid Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Do It Yourself **** Improvement. Can't do it. Against union rules. Fudgepackers local 69 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low_Budget_Hooker Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Absolutely not,...that one is just begging for a grievance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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