Rambling

I have a daughter who is a junkie. I through her know a lot of junkies. But I am not one of them. At least not an illegal one. I take a lot of the meds they abuse for chronic pain. My problem is being treated like I am a junkie just because I need these meds especially after doctor after doctor in this area are getting shut down for over prescribing drugs or for one of their patients overdosing and dying. I lost my first doctor, Dr. Blair, because one of his patients overdosed after going home with his meds although the correct instructions were clearly printed on the bottle. I don't get this at all. Now all of the pain management doctors in the area are terrified to take care of their chronic pain patients properly. My new doctor keeps me about half medicated so I am half functional when I know I could be fully functional with proper meds. THIS PISSES ME OFF. I don't get it at all. I knew some of Blair's patients who were abusing junkies. I could tell they were just by looking at them especially the ones covered with tracks. Why can't they just filter some of them out so the rest of us don't suffer for their addictions?? I thought Blair was an excellent doctor but always wondered that he didn't check for tracks on his patients asking for Oxycontin or check their records to see if they really needed the meds. And why doesn't my PC spell check work on DIINO?? I'm in a bad mood. I just spent the weekend without any pain meds because of a mess up at the clinic and suffered greatly. Tried to sleep away the pain thus missing Easter with my grandchildren completely. Back to the pain clinic thing. There are now only three pain centers that I know of in Omaha and one that might meet my needs who I had to fight to get an appointment with next month. But I fear he will be gone soon, too, since when I last saw my neurosurgeon who did the last surgery on my back said, "Oh, you're switching to HIM. Yea, that's what people like YOU do." Talking to me like I'm a junkie although he is the one cutting my spine open these days to work on it. And don't get me gong on the ignorance of all doctors about MRSA. Most have no clue what it is, none have a clue how to treat it outside of the Disease Control Specialist, but they sure have a lot of stupid advice and false information to pass along to you of you ask!!! I swear, MRSA will be a plague of Biblical proportions before any of the doctors get on the same page about even what it is. OK. I'm done bitching. Se ya.