w00t w00t booyah

Because the corker for this week of talking about weight and health issues?

Saturday morning, Jim wakes up at 5:00 with back pain - and not the 'oops, I shouldn't have picked up that 75 lbs of dogfood' pain.

Nope. Into the ER, and doctor starts saying the 'D' word. As in - disc injury.

He had an aunt die of an overdose of pain medication, after decades of being either in a wheelchair or in her bed, after surgery to resolve a disc injury SHE got on the job - just a couple of years ago. Nope, in her case, surgery didn't resolve it - but she was also close to 500 pounds and pretty content with the lifestyle, all reports...which also included a lot of 'sharing' of the meds, if catch my drift.

Her job? She'd been a RN. Back in the day.

...

So - Jim is off work, on Vicodin (which isn't holding him - he isn't pain-free, just more comfortable) and got to spend yesterday watching movies on the portable DVD player. In bed.

And I'm left with the entire list of things we both had for this weekend - and the foreseeable future.

So say I'm not amused is an understatement. This is not what I would want for him - and the upcoming events - you know, international travel and one of the biggest events in another little boy's life?

Worried is also not going to cover it.

Because the corker for this week of talking about weight and health issues?

Saturday morning, Jim wakes up at 5:00 with back pain - and not the 'oops, I shouldn't have picked up that 75 lbs of dogfood' pain.

Nope. Into the ER, and doctor starts saying the 'D' word. As in - disc injury.

He had an aunt die of an overdose of pain medication, after decades of being either in a wheelchair or in her bed, after surgery to resolve a disc injury SHE got on the job - just a couple of years ago. Nope, in her case, surgery didn't resolve it - but she was also close to 500 pounds and pretty content with the lifestyle, all reports...which also included a lot of 'sharing' of the meds, if catch my drift.

Her job? She'd been a RN. Back in the day.

...

So - Jim is off work, on Vicodin (which isn't holding him - he isn't pain-free, just more comfortable) and got to spend yesterday watching movies on the portable DVD player. In bed.

And I'm left with the entire list of things we both had for this weekend - and the foreseeable future.

So say I'm not amused is an understatement. This is not what I would want for him - and the upcoming events - you know, international travel and one of the biggest events in another little boy's life?

Worried is also not going to cover it.