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Today, I finally got around to writing (on the appropriate headed paper), printing out, signing, having a local business put them into a pdf format - and eventually despatching by email - references for my staff during my recent deployment in the Balkans.

And I arranged for a Covid booster and the flu jab - that is scheduled to take place this coming Monday afternoon.
 
Over the past few weeks, I started abusing Hydromorphone (a highly potent painkiller), and it began to seriously disrupt my life.

Now, I'm on day 3 without any Dilaudid, and the withdrawal symptoms are hitting hard: intense headaches, body aches, nausea, constant sweating, heightened emotions, mental fog, and anxiety. It's tough going through this, especially during the first week of a new job. I'm sharing this here as a reminder of why it's not a good idea to misuse these medications. I should have realized that anything more potent than morphine is best avoided unless medically necessary.
 
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The Clark said:
Over the past few weeks, I started abusing Hydromorphone (a highly potent painkiller), and it began to seriously disrupt my life.

Now, I'm on day 3 without any Dilaudid, and the withdrawal symptoms are hitting hard: intense headaches, body aches, nausea, constant sweating, heightened emotions, mental fog, and anxiety. It's tough going through this, especially during the first week of a new job. I'm sharing this here as a reminder of why it's not a good idea to misuse these medications. I should have realized that anything more potent than morphine is best avoided unless medically necessary.
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Good luck with it. I tend to avoid medication. I take the odd ibuprofen and that’s about it. That said I tend to avoid the doctors as well not been in a few years.
 
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The Clark said:
I'm sharing this here as a reminder of why it's not a good idea to misuse these medications. I should have realized that anything more potent than morphine is best avoided unless medically necessary.
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I would agree. I was prescribed painkillers after my surgery in August, and was very careful to safely dispose of them after I had recovered. They are extremely dangerous. Please, please be careful...
 
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Good luck with it. I tend to avoid medication. I take the odd ibuprofen and that’s about it. That said I tend to avoid the doctors as well not been in a few years.
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I swear, I am an iatrophobic. I turn into a nervous wreck the minute I enter any medical facility. Partly due to the fact that there is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, something wrong with me.
 
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I swear, I am an iatrophobic. I turn into a nervous wreck the minute I enter any medical facility. Partly due to the fact that there is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, something wrong with me.
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The opposite here. I have not been to the doctors much in my adult life. Not had any surgery since I was a young child. I don’t get sick very often and haven’t taken a sick day in over a decade.
 
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The Clark said:
Over the past few weeks, I started abusing Hydromorphone (a highly potent painkiller), and it began to seriously disrupt my life.

Now, I'm on day 3 without any Dilaudid, and the withdrawal symptoms are hitting hard: intense headaches, body aches, nausea, constant sweating, heightened emotions, mental fog, and anxiety. It's tough going through this, especially during the first week of a new job. I'm sharing this here as a reminder of why it's not a good idea to misuse these medications. I should have realized that anything more potent than morphine is best avoided unless medically necessary.
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Good luck with it, and thank you for sharing this unsettling (but valuable) cautionary tale with us.
 
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Good luck with it. I tend to avoid medication. I take the odd ibuprofen and that’s about it. That said I tend to avoid the doctors as well not been in a few years.
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Thank you. I admire that, and I'm glad you don't have to deal with health care too often. It's typically a mess.
 
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I would agree. I was prescribed painkillers after my surgery in August, and was very careful to safely dispose of them after I had recovered. They are extremely dangerous. Please, please be careful...
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Very smart. Only use when needed, otherwise dispose of. If you hang on them, they become a liability.

Aside from a couple times I nodded off, I was generally pretty responsible but truthfully each time I used I kept pushing the limit. That's why I'm no longer taking them. Only bad things will happen if I do, and I miss not being reliant on them.
 
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I still need to get both my flu and Covid shots. Plan to when I get home at Thanksgiving, I think I can do both at once at Costco.
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I'd suggest you try to get them before you travel for Thanksgiving. Airports and airplanes are easy places to catch something. Keep in mind that it takes a couple of weeks for immunity to build up after getting vaccinated.

I had my latest round of vaccinations several weeks ago.
 
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Macky-Mac said:
I'd suggest you try to get them before you travel for Thanksgiving. Airports and airplanes are easy places to catch something. Keep in mind that it takes a couple of weeks for immunity to build up after getting vaccinated.

I had my latest round of vaccinations several weeks ago.
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I'll see if I can get them here at my university. If not, there's only 2 weeks until I go back home.
 
Herdfan said:
When my daughter was learning to drive I took her to the local mall after they closed on a snowy night. I made her drive all over the lot so she got to feel what losing control felt like, she got to feel how too much power would spin the wheels and how you can't stop.
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First thing I try to do during an ice storm or first snow. Head to a large parking lot and practice slides so regaining control becomes part of muscle memory.

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4WD doesn't do anything to help in snow.
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I would say 4WD does help in snow.
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Yes and no. Certainly helps if your car is completely snowed in with the traction from all 4 snow tires. Doesn't really help much with icy conditions. Heading up a steep snow packed road in a 2 wheel drive minivan some 4 wheelers told me that I should turn back. I got to the top. On the way down many of them had crashed into each other. Had to totally concentrate on how well the driving wheels were getting traction only making the minuscule changes in braking and power. The 4 wheelers just assumed that they didn't need to worry about it and got dented fenders as a result.

A favorite memory is going to the parking lot where my car was completely covered in 6+ feet of snow. I had to dig down in order to find the door in order to get in.
 
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Cool! More for goods I should think as they already have many trains.
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Yeah, for the entire Osaka - Tokyo route the Shinkansen would still be preferable, but I'm thinking if the technology for the goods "trucks" merges with self-driving cars, maybe we'll get the first truly autonomous people transport system.

(I'm not counting the very, very few self driving taxis in some US citys now, because they're still the usual 5 years away from actually being able to go large scale, IMHO).
 
decafjava said:
Again shocked how alleged mature (ish) people - grad students as it happens - are less mature than younger ones. 🤐
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Grad students?!

Haven’t they had at least four years to grow up? Really sorry you’re having to go through this…
 
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Question to those of you in the states, are self-driving cars a thing there? I saw a video of a woman get into an Uber that was completely self-driven.. is that normal there?

I'm from Canada and that seems completely futuristic..
 
The Clark said:
Question to those of you in the states, are self-driving cars a thing there? I saw a video of a woman get into an Uber that was completely self-driven.. is that normal there?

I'm from Canada and that seems completely futuristic..
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I haven’t seen any here. But that’s not to say they don’t exist.
 
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