Oxy, red wine, a decently stuffed wallet, and Freestyle...

[awty]

I had a tumble a couple years. I was prescribed hydrocodone tablets for broken ribs and a collar bone. I didn't know it was generic Oxycontin or I probably wouldn't have taken it. After a couple weeks I was looking forward to the stuff.
That's when I flushed what was left and took Tylenol. I can see why people get hooked, it's very comforting.

They are good for short term relief of strong pain. Much better than lying in agony and having the ambulance take you to hospital and the doctor administering one to you anyhow.
Did the right thing, your doctor should of eased (or prised) them off of you after a short period.
Pain is very debilitating especially in long term. Most of us can be responsible taking pain medication a few cant help themselves
I have a few left after having major surgery a few years ago, they dont do much for me apart from easing strong pain and then making me constipated and low afterwards. Do have boxes of less stronger Codeine to treat an on going shoulder injury, have between 3 and 5 a week, does the job.

 

[mshchem]

They are good for short term relief of strong pain. Much better than lying in agony and having the ambulance take you to hospital and the doctor administering one to you anyhow.
Did the right thing, your doctor should of eased (or prised) them off of you after a short period.
Pain is very debilitating especially in long term. Most of us can be responsible taking pain medication a few cant help themselves
I have a few left after having major surgery a few years ago, they dont do much for me apart from easing strong pain and then making me constipated and low afterwards. Do have boxes of less stronger Codeine to treat an on going shoulder injury, have between 3 and 5 a week, does the job.

One other point I have a history of boozing it up on weekends, I haven't touched a drop in 7 years ,(other than about 30mL of champagne sorbet on new years eve in London)
I was lucky that I didn't have anything to do but get well.
I have a friend who was an Airborne soldier, served 2 tours in Afghanistan. He doesn't use much Oxy he rated at 80 % disabled, but a lot is traumatic brain injury from having a big armored vehicle with a couple buddies get blown to pieces directly in front of them.

 

[relistan]

Some raw chemicals for mixing up and experimenting, a densitometer, and a bulk rull of ADOX HR-50.

 

[Don_ih]

Maybe a sink and plumbing fittings - my current room has no sink and I need to wash prints and film in the kitchen. I have a print washer that's good for 8x10 but can't connect it to any tap in the house. I currently use a deep plastic tub with three holes drilled in the bottom edge. I made a mesh basket to hold prints - it keeps them 1 cm spaced. Submerged, water flows into the tub from the tap and slowly drains out the three holes in the bottom. It likely gives enough circulation to wash enough fixer out. I don't use acid stop and do use tf4 fixer, so there's no acid to wash out.

But my regular thing to impulse buy is paper.

 

[grat]

They are good for short term relief of strong pain. Much better than lying in agony and having the ambulance take you to hospital and the doctor administering one to you anyhow.

I'm one of a small subset of the population for whom codeine, Oxycontin/Hydrocodone are totally useless-- I don't have enough of the enzyme required to activate it. I hope I'm never in enough pain that I need something like that.

American medicine in particular is kind of nuts about drugs-- they'll throw highly addictive narcotics and acetaminophen at you by the pound, but have a coronary if you take more than an itty-bitty aspirin a day. Too bad acetaminophen is the leading cause of liver failure in the US-- and it's still not as good a pain reliever as aspirin, and completely fails as an anti-inflammatory.

 

[awty]

One other point I have a history of boozing it up on weekends, I haven't touched a drop in 7 years ,(other than about 30mL of champagne sorbet on new years eve in London)
I was lucky that I didn't have anything to do but get well.
I have a friend who was an Airborne soldier, served 2 tours in Afghanistan. He doesn't use much Oxy he rated at 80 % disabled, but a lot is traumatic brain injury from having a big armored vehicle with a couple buddies get blown to pieces directly in front of them.

Thats going to mess anyone up. Society is poor at looking after war vets.