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Awe, thank's a ton, Stickman! I'm guessing that rep points is a very good thing so I can definitely dig it! I've already bragged to the wife that I have more rep than she does. "Oh that's nice, baby," she says, rolling over to go back to sleep. Not the effect I was hoping for. Like, maybe a cup of coffee. Guess I'll have to go all snooze alarm on her.
Not that I need her to make my coffee, of course... Wait, yes I do. I'll just stop that fib before it even gets started. Her coffee game is far superior to mine.
My wife rode horses competitively her entire life in open jumping and three-day eventing and it has taken its toll on her knees, and back. She feels more of what I call the "Daily Suck" than I do just due to the nature of me being a high-functioning quadriplegic. So, I live up close and personal and witness first hand what a wore out back can do to one's quality of life. She is an ovary cancer survivor but she will tell you without hesitation that her knees and back is far more painful than her cancer ever was.
Fight that fight, Stickman! I've never been one to sugar-coat. Stay out of that damned wheelchair as long as it is humanly possible! But I know I don't have to tell you that.
I'll be checking out the Green Dragon Tincture, for sure. My wife has ZERO insurance and we are perpetually paying Doc bills monthly just to pay for her blood-works. What she needs are relief and medicine. She has never been a smoker, although she vapes stuff like strawberry milk and such because it tastes yummy but that is about the extent of her inhalant exposure.
I'm on the other end of the spectrum. My spinal cord was shredded from C1 to C7 so I am what is known as an "incomplete" meaning my cord was not severed this is good because it gave me the ability to keep my triceps for full arm extension as well as a number of other tid-bits and feelings, but bad because I am forever in a state of spinal shock. My nerve endings are wildly charged as they search for what is going wrong and this relayed to my brain as immense shooting painful burning sensations throughout my fingertips up to my neck. Sometimes it lasts for seconds, other times minutes, around the clock 24-7 and I won't even talk about my leg spasms, all of us paralyzed folk suffers the inevitable leg spasms. If anything else it makes for a show to behold at the local steak-house. So, that makes up for all the nights I quake myself awake.
I fancy myself a writer of sorts, and while I have never had anything ever fully relieve the nerve damage pain I experience, cannabis has made it far more bearable and my spasms are completely gone. Anyone who lives in great amounts of pain will tell you that it takes precedence in most of their waking hours so it clouds a lot of facets of life, and for me, the number one thing affected is my focus, drive, and creativity. What I found out when I first started smoking was that it lifted that veil and gave me a spark of creativity that I never knew I had. That was a game changer for me. I know I'll never walk again, but as long as I could sit there and write without thinking about the pain. That was everything to me. These last four years that I have not even had so much as a hit is all I neede to reaffirm in my mind... That cannabis has never, nor never, be a bad thing. And I can not wait till my wife gets to experience this.
So sorry, Stickman that I turned this into a book. Hopefully if anything it at the very least it took your mind off your back for a minute or two.
-G.
