@Marie Mallory I am sorry I can’t remember what your issues are that you need the gabapentin? Maybe what I use won’t work for you.
What helps me to reduce the pain enough so that I can actually get four hours sleep at a time is indomethacin. It is an NSAID that requires a prescription. At least if you do get picked up for speeding or something else you won’t go to jail for using a schedule II drug.
www.mayoclinic.org
I am allowed to take it three times a day, but I don’t. Some days if I have to go somewhere, I won’t take it at all because it relaxes me enough that I want to fall asleep and I don’t fancy doing that while driving into town.
I can run the equipment with it just fine, but I don’t want to be out on the road if I feel like I’m gonna doze off. Anyway, it is not a magic bullet, but maybe it will help you. I wanted to write this down for you before I forgot what I wanted to say.
My brother has been here five days and that kid hit it hard. If I had to pay somebody for everything that he did, I would be bankrupt.
He fixed the muck ups on both my four wheelers that I had sent out to a certified ATV dealer and spent $800 getting them fixed. The dealership didn’t fix them. The only thing that dealership did was get them to where they would start right on the first push of the button, Otherwise they really messed things up. It is too bad that my brother who is a plumber had to be the one to get them running the way they’re supposed to be running.
Plus, he got the Ford 3000 back together, took it out and bushhogged one of the pastures to make sure it was running OK. That was the biggest part of one day.
Plus, he fixed the problems with both of the bathtubs faucets.
Plus he cut up the big limb that broke partway off of one of the trees in the yard in a big storm. He got the chainsaw out and cut it down so that it at least won’t let go on its own, and take a big roll down the side yard that is so steep it would keep going out onto the road.
Plus because my four wheelers haven’t been running since last fall, I have not been able to get up on the ridge to check fence. And guess what! The barbless wire fence that we strung up to keep the horses out of an old dump site, from 40 years ago, came down and was down everywhere so he fixed that. The horses could’ve gone through there anytime they wanted to, but they don’t go up there because the bogeyman lives up there. Right about now, I’m glad the bogeyman does live up there.
I did some extra cleaning which equals more trash — trash that I asked him to run to the dump. My RE taxes pay for trash as long as I take it there. The dump is a hop-skip away, as the crow flies, so no big deal.
Brother left for home early this morning. Both dogs really like my brother, but the senior dog really loves him to pieces — he whimpered and hugged into my chest for a short time, then moved his 75# self to the foot of the bed
Brother got his exceptional logic, common sense & deduction from our dad. I’m pretty good, but can’t hold a candle to my brother
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OK, I have to read what everybody else has wrote because I’m way behind on reading.
I love the smell of fresh rain!
Plus, we just didn't want to make the long drive.
That sounds so good.