What's on your (PHOTO) Friday Menu?

I hate that the morphine is also making you itch. But I was afraid of that. How it does for pain?
When I stated taking pain meds I was itching like crazy, but overtime my body got used to them, and now its better, unless I take more than my normal dosage, or take 2 doses too close together. Ugh.

Basically I split my daily pain meds into 4 doses. Ideally I try to take only 3, but 4 is Ok. Sometimes, in bad weather - I need to add one more..., or when I'm really sick. I take a bunch of liver support supplements to help my live with processing the meds.

The stables look dreadful. I often take extra amount of collagen proteins when I'm recovering from any type of surgery. Collagen is needed for strong skin, hair, and bones that that makes a really difference how fast my incisions heal. Plus extra regular proteins and fats. Hugs and best wishes.

I've always itched with opioids but this is just the worst I've ever had. It doesn't relent at all. I talked to the nurse and since I'm having a blood patch Monday she'll check it out then. All I have is Benadryl. I went and got some cream too. It's better By a hair. I had to take my anxiety medication because I am kind of getting panicked feeling. I'm really having a hard time of it and all I want to do is cry.

it's not really helping with pain yet. They said they may switch me to dilaudid in the pain pump. Once whichever one I end up with they will do titration upwards.

thank you :o)

Good morning QJB and menuers!

So glad to hear it was a better day and that your mom is working with you. The brainstorming is great, and now you might have some tempered expectations.

That meme is so me at this age. The conflict isn't worth it in the majority of cases and I choose my battles, so to speak.

QOTD- Black coffee, plain tea in whatever flavor. No sweetness or creamers added. Somehow it spoils the flavors for me, though I do try it in whatever traditional method a new culture uses.

I feel like Jen this morning since I was up at 2:30 and I'm at the office already! Half day of tying stuff up, appointment for a facial...then just prepping and such.

So, storytime because I'm super stressing about this. Part of the reason I am so generic here and have a very low online presence is because I have a stalker. Short version is I dated him for a short period back in 2005, which was a mistake on my part. After I broke it off he spent almost two whole days calling me non-stop. After that, I've literally never acknowledged his existence because some people will take even negative interactions, and he's one of them. The only social media I have is LinkedIn for work. When I created it in 2015, it took less than a week for him to find it. I did make the mistake of blocking and reporting his real profile, so he started creating fake ones. Those I ignored. Back in 2017 or so I had to dig up an old email because I couldn't remember my Skype password. I had a whole series of emails from him over years asking if it was me and wanting to reconnect. Anyway. I had to post for work the other day...first time in a while. It took him 11 hours to send another connection request. The terrifying things are that he has such a tight turnaround on social media I haven't used in months...and yesterday I got 3 emails on my personal account. Unfortunately, I'm searchable online so I'm sure he paid someone for my information. Anyway. Not sure where to go from here, and sorry for the personal stuff.

Pics are of my current favorite cup for tea and my pup sleeping with not a care in the world.

Menu

Fritatta, ratio yogurt, boiled eggs, something from the cafeteria.

Have a great Friday, folks!

That is super scary! No sorry needed. It has to be frustrating to go through this and having to be so guarded all the time! Hugs!

Thanks, Mel. Oh, it has an impact. I literally can't get it out of my head. I don't want to acknowledge him and feed the troll, so to speak, so hopefully he just sees it as everything going off into the void. But man...it's been 18 years!

And I worry he might show up at my house since literally everything seems to be available through Google search. Googling yourself can be eye-opening. :)

Someone who can't move on after 18 years would concern me.

I had an ex who didn't so much stalk me, but messaged me out of the blue on FB once he found out I had an account. I told him I had a .38 and knew how to operate a backhoe. I have never heard from him again.

Omg, what an experience. I'm glad that worked! It does concern me since it's super obsessive behavior. I used to be on FB circa about 2008 and it was the same...but I didn't answer him and had no backhoe or land. :)

What an awful story! Does he live locally? Are the police aware? Even if they can't do anything I would think you'd want to have it officially documented somewhere.

Hey JB,

Thanks. He doesn't live locally since I moved in 2014 but I still wouldn't put it past him given the level of interest over this kind of time. I maaaaay have also spent some time last night verifying what I could of his information, just in case.

The police are not aware. It was intrusive but not to this level until he popped up in my inbox yesterday. That showed effort since it's an account created years after we ever spoke, which is why he kept emailing the old address. I guess it didn't feel close, somehow. I'm tossing around involving the police, though I get the feeling it would get brushed off. Hmm.

I am so sorry you're dealing with this. I have a mother that stalks me, not to this degree though.