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halfshellvenusNow that the "Grow-it-yourself" Homeropus is out of the water, he's slowly shrinking:
But he's doing it in a strange way. I mean, doesn't he look a tad... fabulous... in the picture on the left? (Maybe you can't see it--some of the tips are now pointing upward). The water is evaporating much more quickly at the ends, so there are those twisty tentacle tips (with flair!) and then the fat, rubbery middle is almost unchanged. :O
I could swear there's a blue cartoon hat-wearing octopus in a similar pose, but the context just isn't coming to me... In any case, I've put a big ketchup-bottle lid between him and the plate now, to let air flow underneath. We'll see if that changes the shrinking pattern at all. :)
In other news, HalfshellHusband is still having a hard time. He's able to get around a little using his walker, though it's painful and tiring. But mainly, things hurt all day and all night (including while he's trying to sleep). It all just gets exhausting. This actually hurts more than the hip replacement surgeries did, which could be because most of the soreness is deep bone pain rather than muscle pain. He's looking forward to when it only hurts if he stands on the broken leg, instead of while he's just sitting or lying down. :(
It's been hot again here, and smoky. The week before last, I bicycled outside 5 times. That was followed by a week and a half of riding indoors, mainly because of the smoke. While a couple of the bigger wildfires from August are almost entirely contained now, several new ones broke out a little over a week ago, so the cycle continues. By the end of the day, it starts to seep into the house until it smells like the inside of a chain-smoker's car. :(
I think I've ridden in the garage (and then the laundry room, thanks to the smoke) more times this summer than I have during ANY winter in the 30+ years I've lived in Sacramento. It's maddening. Elementary, S2 is still sitting in the DVD machine out in the garage. In the laundry room, the WiFi is strong enough that I can finally catch up on some of the Netflix streaming shows that HalfshellHusband doesn't want to see.
So, I'm up-to-date now on Better Call Saul, which is getting increasingly depressing (not surprisingly). If there were a version of it that was just The Amazing Mike Ermantraut, HSH would watch that in a heartbeat, but he doesn't like the rest of the characters. I can't blame him. Mike's sub-stories are definitely my favorite parts. The utter creativity and sheer competence of that character are just fantastic. Now I'm watching A Series Of Unfortunate Events, because HSH thought the premiere episode was kind of dull. That may be because he has no memory of ever reading any of the books. The episodes are not fast-paced, but they're compelling, and reflect an obvious love of the books. The art direction alone! *swoons* The casting of Patrick Warburton as the drily humorous Lemony Snicket! *swoons again* I like the overall casting quite a bit, as well as the unexpected racial diversity. "Mr Trick" (as I think of him) is a delight as the cheerfully clueless Mr. Poe, and Alfre Woodard was a wonderful surprise as Aunt Josephine. I can't get the show's theme song out of my head these days, but it's worth it.
What next after that, though? I just started S3, and at the rate things are going with the outdoors here, I need to start looking ahead. But at the moment, I need to go to bed. :O
Today (6 days of shrinkage) Maximum size
But he's doing it in a strange way. I mean, doesn't he look a tad... fabulous... in the picture on the left? (Maybe you can't see it--some of the tips are now pointing upward). The water is evaporating much more quickly at the ends, so there are those twisty tentacle tips (with flair!) and then the fat, rubbery middle is almost unchanged. :O
I could swear there's a blue cartoon hat-wearing octopus in a similar pose, but the context just isn't coming to me... In any case, I've put a big ketchup-bottle lid between him and the plate now, to let air flow underneath. We'll see if that changes the shrinking pattern at all. :)
In other news, HalfshellHusband is still having a hard time. He's able to get around a little using his walker, though it's painful and tiring. But mainly, things hurt all day and all night (including while he's trying to sleep). It all just gets exhausting. This actually hurts more than the hip replacement surgeries did, which could be because most of the soreness is deep bone pain rather than muscle pain. He's looking forward to when it only hurts if he stands on the broken leg, instead of while he's just sitting or lying down. :(
It's been hot again here, and smoky. The week before last, I bicycled outside 5 times. That was followed by a week and a half of riding indoors, mainly because of the smoke. While a couple of the bigger wildfires from August are almost entirely contained now, several new ones broke out a little over a week ago, so the cycle continues. By the end of the day, it starts to seep into the house until it smells like the inside of a chain-smoker's car. :(
I think I've ridden in the garage (and then the laundry room, thanks to the smoke) more times this summer than I have during ANY winter in the 30+ years I've lived in Sacramento. It's maddening. Elementary, S2 is still sitting in the DVD machine out in the garage. In the laundry room, the WiFi is strong enough that I can finally catch up on some of the Netflix streaming shows that HalfshellHusband doesn't want to see.
So, I'm up-to-date now on Better Call Saul, which is getting increasingly depressing (not surprisingly). If there were a version of it that was just The Amazing Mike Ermantraut, HSH would watch that in a heartbeat, but he doesn't like the rest of the characters. I can't blame him. Mike's sub-stories are definitely my favorite parts. The utter creativity and sheer competence of that character are just fantastic. Now I'm watching A Series Of Unfortunate Events, because HSH thought the premiere episode was kind of dull. That may be because he has no memory of ever reading any of the books. The episodes are not fast-paced, but they're compelling, and reflect an obvious love of the books. The art direction alone! *swoons* The casting of Patrick Warburton as the drily humorous Lemony Snicket! *swoons again* I like the overall casting quite a bit, as well as the unexpected racial diversity. "Mr Trick" (as I think of him) is a delight as the cheerfully clueless Mr. Poe, and Alfre Woodard was a wonderful surprise as Aunt Josephine. I can't get the show's theme song out of my head these days, but it's worth it.
What next after that, though? I just started S3, and at the rate things are going with the outdoors here, I need to start looking ahead. But at the moment, I need to go to bed. :O
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Date: 2020-10-06 01:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-06 07:10 pm (UTC)Neither of us knows much about the medical aspects of pot vs. recreational, and we've never been fans of the recreational aspect. So we have ZERO knowledge of which components of marijuana are useful, and how they are processed by the body. Could they help?
His painkiller problem is that he has meds he has to take for a chronic neurological condiction, and they're the only meds that work for him. But they also "sit" on the receptors that allow uptake of anti-depressants and painkillers, and render them non-effective. He would really benefit from anti-depressants that work, and from painkillers! But they don't absorb enough to reach a therapeutic dose.
I'm not sure if that's also the reason Ibuprofen and Naproxen don't really work for him. Aspirin gives him a little relief, but that's it. Tylenol might as well be Tic Tacs, but that's true for everyone in his family and mine (apart from my Dad).
Are there options for medical marijuana that might bypass those absorption issues?
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Date: 2020-10-06 08:53 pm (UTC)Since it's legal in CA, I'd suggest talking to a pain management doctor/specialist first as they would probably know exactly what HSH's meds do and if medical MJ would work on the same points.
I think it would be worth a shot.
But there is one very critical thing, and that you can't treat the edibles casually or like they are a normal food. I'm really PO'd at my dad, I think this was when he went through his first set of chemo treatments for a tumor in his chest. I told him to get signed up for a medical MJ card (Arizona, legal medical-only). He balked at having to pay $150 or whatever if he wasn't 100% sure he'd need it. I really wanted him to get the consult with the doctor working at a dispensary, but without the card, no dice. My sister provided him with a brownie. He also has problems with most pain meds not working well for him. He wasn't feeling good one day, so he takes one portion of the brownie. Expecting instant results, nothing happened. Well, it's an edible - you DON'T GET INSTANT RESULTS WITH EDIBLES! So he eats some more. Nothing happens. He ends up eating the whole effing brownie and nothing happens.
So he drives to the hardware store. And it all kicks in at once.
I told him what would happen when I was in town if he were to do something like that, but time had passed, and he'd forgotten.
So it's very important to follow directions and to be careful to eat exact portions AND NO MORE when it comes to consuming marijuana edibles!
But yes, I'd go to a pain management specialist and talk to them, and I'd also call a dispensary and ask if they have a doctor on-site that you could arrange a consult with. I wouldn't bet on them being covered by insurance, so no idea what a consult with them might cost.
It might be effective. Could be worth a shot. But you have to be careful with the stuff, obviously it is a drug.