Thank you so much for the encouragement. I got a couple of hours sleep last night. Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) hit with a vengence when I laid down last night. Normally in my calf muscles it hit both my thigh muscles and makes life miserable. I usually use 900mg of Neurontin, but that didn't touch it. I took another 600mg and that did not touch it.
So I spent the night walking around my house trying to get rid of it. I still have it right now. Very unusual I am told. Grrrrrrrrr. My prescription bill, through the end of June 2008 was a hair under $20k. But I am trying so hard to get off them. Today, I am on 18 prescriptions. Down from 25 or so. After I beat the Opiates, I will be down 3 more.
After years of being fed pills I have to echo my wife's sentiments. Just about anything we ingest ---- if it didn't come from a tree or in the ground, the Lord never intended for us to use it. THEN I remember my awful back pain and wonder what herb would relieve THAT.
OH YEAH -- Opium. Isn't that grown in the ground???
Just kidding. At one time I thought about renaming our boat "Class II". Chris vetoed that one. Isn't adult supervision great?
Thanks too for the suggestions of taking it out of county, then returning. I don't think that works. We have several friends in Fort Bragg, CA. Due to the ban on certain fishing, they are a ghost town (compared to last year I am told). I might get a slip up there. Then there is the moving thing. Getting the Tolly up to Fort Bragg. If I had a temporary slip there .... hmmm. Of course, your fuel expenses, etc. can add up too.
We should all buy one of these floating islands, then move it wherever we want to stay for awhile. Didn't one person make a concrete island and park it over around Marin or Sausalito??
BTW, my GPIRG will be used on land too. I filled out paperwork with the CG and someone else.... It would only be used if our cell phone or ham radios could not reach help for me. One Coastie said I might be fined, he wasn't sure. I told him if it means my death or a fine, I will be sure to carry my check book. He said they would not be the ones rescuing me anyway. Not sure what that meant. Not sure I care, as long as they save me.
BTW, those of you at WB, our sales agent thinks leaving the boat at WB is a good sales point. Due to location, etc. Our 50ft covered slips (on the new side) are around $675 a month. Sac City Marina is charging $595 as I recall. And that is a cess pool at times.
Before anyone attacks me, I was in A-2 for a couple of years. The only good thing about it was the criminals hesitated to get in that water. Don't blame them.
Anyone berthed in Stockton? I wonder what their tax structure is. One of those marinas typically have the cheapest fuel in the Delta. Sorry, can't remember the name of it.
Thanks so much for the kind words, it helps a lot. I will read this thread again when I am getting down. I thought I might be detoxed in 4+ days, but my Pain Med doctor said no.
It can take weeks (as long as I have been taking them and ... in April 2008 I was up to
450-500mg of Morphine a day) -- I can still hope. It sure beats you up, inside to the outside. I could have taken an Oxycodone last night ... ending the RLS attacks, but I am NOT taking any more opiates unless it is a life saving event. But it IS tempting.
Dave.......I will email you after I rest a little bit. Something about detox wears you down. EDIT: Dave, complicated Medical problems (Respiratory) stopped me. $5 a gallon for fuel didn't help. We hired a repairman my wife knew from church and he repaired almost everything wrong in Brendan's survey. I love Brendan, but some of the things he listed are downright funny. I may email you a copy. He is the best we have, but we only got about a dozen section II items, or was it ten? Way down from his average of the mid-forties. One thing he wrote up we can't find or figure out. I thought it was the drains on the deck, but they are in good shape. Back to leaving town... I think I was emotionally overloaded. I think I told you this story, but May 5, 2008 we were on the boat when I sat in a chair and went to sleep. Chris and our friend tried to wake me for about 30 minutes. I knew they were there, but could not remember how to wake up. I wasn't breathing. Or I was breathing so shallow I could not activate the Pressure Demand Regulator. Finally, our friend, who retired as a professional life guard cleared my airways, leaned my head back and put the oxygen bottle on continuous. I finally came around. Do you see why Chris is afraid to put out to sea with me at the helm? My Service
Dog/Medic Alert Dog alerted Chris or who knows, I could have died right there. CCHS is an unforgiving disease. It is probably SIDS. I was born with it, but got much better, then he multi-car wreck we were in brought it back. "Adult onset CCHS" Please bear with me, when most people go to sleep, their brain/CNS tells their heart to beat and their lungs to breathe. Mine does not tell me to breathe, so I am on an Auto Ventilator. THAT is the main reason we did not take it up to Seattle.
