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Showing Original Post only (View all)DUing while impaired [View all]
Last edited Fri Mar 13, 2015, 12:55 AM - Edit history (1)
Have you ever done something while impaired you regret later? It happened to me this afternoon here in GD. It will happen again if I stay as a regular.
Perhaps I should change my name to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Try to remember I'm not who I was when I joined a little over ten years ago. OS doesn't really exist anymore.
I wear plastic casts on my thumbs for arthritis in the daytime. Even simple copy and paste takes awhile. It took a couple hours to put this all together.
I wear braces on my hands at night until I have surgery in a month or two for carpal tunnel syndrome. Just one hand at a time.
I've been on a CPAP since 2001. It was very hard to kick lunesta a few years ago. There was a missed warning there.
Both shoulders and both sides of my neck have damage from 2 at work accidents, and a car accident back on Christmas Day a couple years ago on my way home from work.
By now I'm sure you know pain killers are part of my life. Mood swings and periods of lack of judgement are right out of the medical books for me with everything going on. Think of what Marta has to put up with.
A couple dozen DUers know what is slowly killing me. I thank every single one of them for keeping my secret. I'll write that tell all post when it is time to leave for good.
I'm going to try to be a real life volunteer for newly diagnosed terminal patients. I'm going downhill, so I have no idea how long it will last. Because of the nature of what I'll be doing is confidential, I really can't share much. My first venture is next week.
I'll be attending the state boys basketball tournament for I hope the next three days if my team keeps winning, so I won't be on the DU as much as I have been since I retired.
I love the DU. When the time comes to leave I will lose a huge extended & caring family. Sometime after that it will be the theme from M*A*S*H.
I do want to stay on the DU. Please let me know when Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have overstayed their welcome, because I won't know it myself.
BTW, those cowards living in a cave don't bother me in anymore. They haven't for a long time!
Much love,
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde A.K.A. OS
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Don't agree with a small percentage of your posts, but I enjoy, respect, and never miss one.
Hoyt
Mar 2015
#23
I missed whatever it was, but I do remember what you told us before about what you're going through
Hekate
Mar 2015
#24
I don't know what happened today, but you contribute so much to DU impaired or not.
sabrina 1
Mar 2015
#33
Steve I am so sorry for your troubles, especially the pain. I will send good healing
Maraya1969
Mar 2015
#35
Steve, you're a pillar & a foundation of DemocraticUnderground; your on-base percentage is way high
NBachers
Mar 2015
#37
Most of us have not noticed you Jekyll/Hyde at this point. We love both you and Marta and want
jwirr
Mar 2015
#55
If they administered a field sobriety test for that here on DU, many might fail. But it'd be
FailureToCommunicate
Mar 2015
#56
I'll be leaving shortly for the drive down to Lincoln for tonight's boys tournament bball games
Omaha Steve
Mar 2015
#59
Steve, my Union brother and fellow denizen of the Twilight Zone, you are a most excellent person
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2015
#62