HAPPY THANKSGIVING

To all:

Just wanted to post a happy turkey day to all. I hope everyone enjoys there day.
Looking forward to spending the day with the coleman's (but without matt til 5) and then to heading up to lowville. I haven't seen some of them in months.

Everyone travel safe at eat heartily.!!!

Love to all

SPEED!

I am now on hi speed cable internet. This post only took me two seconds versus three hours. I will be on much more often. But right now it is 2335 and I am tired. I will write again tomorrow. Oh by the way Deana is doing fantastic......besides not being able to sleep. Talk to you all soon.

Clay

D went home yesterday

All

Deanna went home from the Hospital yesterday. Let's all hope she gets to stay home between Chemo sessions this time.

love

d

One more opinion...

Hey Clay,

I know, I know, it's been a while since I blogged - things are a bit crazy to say the least...

Okay - it is very normal for a patient to become tolerant of pain meds - a friend's mother is on pain meds for crushed nerves, a condition she will have for life, and they cycle her through pain meds every 4-6 months to keep her from become tolerant to any particular drug. The chemist in me needs to add that you have to be careful of judging a drug because of what you have heard on the streets. Most pain meds (or analgesics) are derivatives of opium. I know that sounds a bit scary for a cop - but it is very simple in terms of chemitstry, changing one small component of the chemical used from the poppy for pain can give you a variety of meds, codiene, hydrocodone, morphine, and yes, heroin. Methadone is yet another deriviative, and altering that chemical slightly allows the patient from building up a tolerance. So please, ask us when in doubt, and we can offer some advice with that shoulder.

As for the anit-depressant - Deana is on so much right now that it wouldn't surprise me if she isn't producing her own endorphins to keep up her spirits and retain what you recognize as her normal personality... a medicine can help keep those endorphins balanced, also keep her relaxed, and add back a quality to your life by helping her, for now, overcome the fear. If she reacts badly to it, tell a doctor, but don't fear that she will become addicted to it, or that she will become someone you don't recognize - that's not the purpose of the med. If you need me, I am always here for you...

I love you all very much...

T

Methadone CAN be used for pain

Clay

hey bro. Not to disaggree with you - but I do agree with the doctor on all those points you said he made. You can build up a tolerance to pain medications - that is true, and to avoid having to use astonomical doses of one to have relief, it is not unorthadox for them to try to switch to another. Methadone is for addicts - HOWEVER it is often used for pain too. In NY state it is actually the only reason I can dispense it (addicts have to get it from a clinic).

i know your going through a roll coaster of shit right now hon - but sometimes you do have to trust the doctors are doing the best they can and are trying to do right by deanna. And if you ever have questions CALL ME. I do not mind.

Dad - if you talk to clay before he reads this maybe you can help rest his worries.

I tried to call you, clay, but you must have a new cell phone. I have not updated my cell phone with mom and dad's new freakin cell phone numbers either (which i should have done months ago I know). And your home# in my cell phone is your old number. Anyhow, I am at work all day today until 830 tonight - and feel free to call at home any time you need - I don't care if you wake me up. I'll call it practice for when babino coleman number two arrives.

love to all

tonya