Ron Washington Wisdom
Sleep, Glorious Sleep
Posted by TFG on November 17th, 2011
And I ain’t getting much. All those “damn pills” I’m supposed to take have utterly disrupted any kind of rational sleep cycle. It usually works like this:
- 5am: wake up, take a pain pill
- 6am: fall asleep in front of a droning business channel, like BTV
- 7am: wake up groggy as hell
- eat something or drink something…CALORIES!
- nod off at desk
- 10am: take a pain pill
- go back to top & do it all again
The hours aren’t regular, either. Sometimes I’ll sleep for two hours at a time, sometimes for 45 minutes. The docs said they’d give me a pill to make me sleep, and all of a sudden, my life is sounding like a Rolling Stones song. I don’t know what’s more stressful — taking a pill to counteract another pill, or just gritting my teeth. I think the pain would eventually keep me from sleeping more than four hours, but still — four glorious hours of sleep is quite appealing right now.
I DO NOT LIKE THIS!
I don’t like that this has turned into a bitch-blog, either. Well, people wants to knows.
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Indeed, thanks for the update. Sounds like life where I am, at age 68, the old man routine. Some (rare) nights I can sleep for six hours straight. Most usually fall into 2-hour increments, broken up by pee trips.
I haven’t been through this myself, but my dad had a pain/sleep combo and from what Rick has said on his blog, you need the sleep medication too. Now, this is fuzzy, but I’m sure the doc said that cancer patients do not get addicted. Now he was talking about morphine…not sure about the other goodies out there.
It’s the regulatory bureaucrats who play the “addicted cancer patient” game, which is mean as well as stupid.
Bitch on, dude. You’re entitled. I just want to know how you are, bitching and all. Thanks for your blogging and keep it up if you wish.
What this man says.
My thought exactly.
You have always bitched real good
Still praying for you, TFG. I did slay my first-ever deer on the family property last Sunday, and a largish eleven-point buck, at that. The chili and fried bits I made from same were larrapin good! Again, still praying for you, TFG, and I know you’ll survive and thrive-I have a feeling about this…
The R, Man
Wow…11 points??? Very nice, sir. Thanks for the prayers, too…my mind’s so effed up, I often forget mine. Embarassing.
Yup, eleven points, and a nice wide rack. I’ve slain many big does mostly in the northern part of the state, but this was the first buck I’ve killed, ever, the first deer on our family land, where we tend to have small deer and not that many of ‘em. This was the first deer I killed with an old Browning .30-’06 bolt-action I have, offhand at about 220 yards, and while I hit it a bit farther up the neck than I’d aimed, it was a solid, killing shot that dropped the buck right then and there. The meat’s been really good thus far.