Oxy

Oxycodone
My pills are the one at top left.

I took (53) Oxycodone tablets, 5 mg each, since my surgery on January 13, 24 days ago. Divide 53 by 22, since I quit taking Oxy 2 days ago, you get 2.4 tablets a day. At first I was only taking 1 or 2 day, probably because I was still full of the anesthetics from surgery, but a week later I was up to 3 and then 4 tablets a day. A week after surgery I dropped down to 2 tablets a day.

The instructions on the bottle say 

TAKE 1 TO 2 TABLETS BY 
MOUTH EVERY 4 TO 6 HOURS
AS NEEDED FOR PAIN

At 2 tablets every 4 hours, my bottle of 40 tablets would only last 3 days.I guess different people have different pain nerves.

Middle of last week I would start feeling cold 6 to 8 hours after I took an Oxy. Found if I took another Oxy the cold went away. Now I am beginning to suspect maybe I should stop the Oxy, so I did, and for two days I couldn't sleep for shit, so I started the Oxy again and two days later, about 9PM, I started feeling cold, colder then I have ever felt, even when I was at winter camp with the Boy Scouts, back in 1963. I spent the night camped out in the recliner in front of the gas fireplace, piled high with blankers. OK, that's it, no more Oxy.

That was two days ago and I am finally starting to feel human.

When I went in for my two week checkup, a week ago, I got a refill script for Oxy. When I was filling in the intake form I selected Walgreens on Cornell as my pharmacy. Well, it's on Cornell, if you forget that Cornell makes two 45 degree bends before it gets to the Walgreens on 10th. So we went to the Walgreens on 10th and Baseline, waited in line at the drive up window for 15 minutes, only to be told we were at the wrong pharmacy.

Huh, here I thought a script was a script. I mean you have to pick up prescriptions for narcotics in person at the doctor's office and then hand carry it to the pharmacy. I'd never seen a script like this, it was printed in color on some fancy paper, it was almost like the title to a car. Great, now we get to drive four miles to the Walgreens on Cornell and dropped off the script. 

It was going to be a 20 minute wait so we went and had dinner at the Copper River restaurant. This place has kind of weird layout. The front door opens on to Cornell Road. It's 35 feet away from the curb, so you aren't stepping into traffic. Meanwhile, it's 100 feet from the parking lot. I suspect this is because of the plague of cuteness infecting city planning. Somebody has got the idea that everyone is going to walk everywhere and no one is going to drive cars anymore so we need big fat sidewalks and no parking for automobiles. I'll give them that it's cute, but it's also very stupid.

After dinner we head back to Walgreens to pick up the script, and miracle of miracles, they have all the paperwork in order so all I have to do is identify myself. Did I have to show my driver's license? Don't remember, probably.

There were some times early on when I would get into a very pleasant dream state. I would like to go there again, but not at the risk of feeling cold as ice.