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Take a tip from a still-somewhat suffering Busse fan: An addiction to acquiring INFI or other Busse-Kin knives is a good thing, but please do all you can to avoid any other kind of addictions.
Last February I injured my back in a fall at work. I went on Percocet for the pain. It never got any better, and I kept increasing my amount of Percocet until I was actually at the legal limit. I wasn't getting them illegally, my doctor was properly (as far as he knew) prescribing them to me. What I failed to realize is that it wasn't my back pain that needed the meds, it was the addiction I didn't even recognize I had until the doctor warned me that I had been using too much for too long. When he switched me to a different medication on my recent trip in to Anchorage I found out just how bad withdrawls from opiates are.
I'm quite an honest person by nature. I was, for a couple of years, an ordained minister in my faith and I still teach Sunday School on a regular basis. Last Friday night (a little over a day into the withdrawls) I was trying to figure out how to break into the pharmacy, how I could find out someone who might have some drugs so I could rob them, anything to get some relief. I had no idea what I had become.
I've never smoked, I don't drink any more (can I still be a HOG?) and I've never used illegal drugs. This has come completely out of left field for me, it's something like I've never experienced and don't want to ever again. It's still tough, but the worst (I hope) is over.
Anyway, end of sermon. If you're able to learn from other's mistakes, learn from mine: Stick to an INFI addiction. About the worst that can happen there is having your spouse whack you on the head for spending too much on the next gotta-have-it that Jerry offers. Even I can handle that one.
Last February I injured my back in a fall at work. I went on Percocet for the pain. It never got any better, and I kept increasing my amount of Percocet until I was actually at the legal limit. I wasn't getting them illegally, my doctor was properly (as far as he knew) prescribing them to me. What I failed to realize is that it wasn't my back pain that needed the meds, it was the addiction I didn't even recognize I had until the doctor warned me that I had been using too much for too long. When he switched me to a different medication on my recent trip in to Anchorage I found out just how bad withdrawls from opiates are.
I'm quite an honest person by nature. I was, for a couple of years, an ordained minister in my faith and I still teach Sunday School on a regular basis. Last Friday night (a little over a day into the withdrawls) I was trying to figure out how to break into the pharmacy, how I could find out someone who might have some drugs so I could rob them, anything to get some relief. I had no idea what I had become.
I've never smoked, I don't drink any more (can I still be a HOG?) and I've never used illegal drugs. This has come completely out of left field for me, it's something like I've never experienced and don't want to ever again. It's still tough, but the worst (I hope) is over.
Anyway, end of sermon. If you're able to learn from other's mistakes, learn from mine: Stick to an INFI addiction. About the worst that can happen there is having your spouse whack you on the head for spending too much on the next gotta-have-it that Jerry offers. Even I can handle that one.
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