Seven of Nine you cruel b***h

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Star Trek technology sounds fun. Amazing even.

Heck I want a few of them in my house.

But the body implants are ruining my life. Or saving it. Which ever you prefer to think.

They managed to poke so many things in my flesh til it’s hard to shower and sleep in the position I like.

I’m managing, barely. The day to day care of these implants is time consuming.

Of course I rely on the insulin pump for my very existence. I can do injections if needed. My injection quadrants are all compromised to some degree from years of manually injecting. So I prefer not to.

Now.

Doctor wants me have a hockey puck sized thing implanted in my tummy.

Pain pump. It will provide me pain relief with less drugs. Apparently.

I’ve moved up(heh) to having severe lower back pain and the ever present stomach crampies during dialysis. Of late I’ve been getting pain shots every time. The pain exhausts you. Then loopy from an opioid all afternoon kinda messes with my life. So the pump makes sense, I guess.

I don’t know what to do.

(I wouldn’t mind looking like Seven of Nine, tho’)

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I think Darth Vader had it worse than Seven.

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When do they give you the implant that lets you shoot energy blasts from your hands? Or do you already have that one?

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Would make “finger guns” more impressive.

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Thanks. That cheered me up. :grinning_face:

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I have nothing to add except noting I have a Lumiglass disc. It’s the flat, plasma sphere kinda thing they put behind Seven of Nine’s head in her bed/ charging station. Visible here.

I have not yet had any parts added to my body, only removed (appendix, numerous cancerous lymph nodes).

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Heck yeah. I like that decorating scheme.

You not required to say anything real meaningful. You posting a thing that is fun does wonders for my state of mind.

Thank you

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I napped and feel better.

Altho’ I dreamed an odd dream.

I had watched some scenes from El Topo. Very disturbing horror flick.

So I was dreaming I was in a scene with wires and cables hanging allover myself. Running from a guy with no arms. I woke with a jump scare.

Eeeek :scream:

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You could build your own alcove to regenerate it.

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Well the pain situation well and truly sucketh, Beck. The pump sounds like a good solution, though I’m sure there are downsides. What kind of pain med will they be using? And when will you get the implant?

I think many of us here can empathize with you on how exhausting pain is. Even thinking is tiring when you have to sort of doggy paddle to keep your brain above the pain.

I’m sorrier than I can say that YOU have to deal with this.

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I assume an opioid. I think morphine is usual.

They gave me fentanyl injection today and I was violently ill. So it’s not my friend.

I feel much better this evening.

Thanks for your concern.

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I see the surgeon Thursday. I’ll know alot more then.

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Wishing you well.

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I find his lack of faith disturbing.

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!) Stay alive with the best quality of life possible!
2) Stay as pain free as possible!
3) Keep your hands free so you can keep posting here! :heartbeat:

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For what it’s worth:

I used to work for Medtronic, maker of implanted medical devices. They would have a regular Quality Day, when all employees would go to a local banquet hall instead of going to work. There, patients would be interviewed on stage, describing their ailments and how a Medtronic device had changed their lives. I remember some had debilitating pain which required so much morphine to alleviate that they’d be in a drugged stupor all day. The pump would send morphine to only the afflicted area, allowing the daily dosage to be just 1-5% of the oral dosage.And there the patients were; sober and thanking us for making the pump.

If I ever have to deal with chronic localized pain, I’ll get a pump, and I’ll ask for a Medtronic one.

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Hey, that’s useful advice, right there., @Capn_Carl

I never thought of the “brand” of pump. I’ll be looking into that and comparing.

Nothing I like better than shopping :smiley: .

And way less drugs needed is great.

Thanks.

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I’m at dialysis right now. It’s not nearly as bad today. No crampy cramps.

We are going swimmingly.

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So Beckdawrek, I had two questions about pain pumps. I was reading a wiki entry for a primer since I’m new to them; the entry seemed all-encompassing but it’s hard to get sometimes.

First, wiki seemed to say doctors put them in to patients to last 3-5 years. I see the upsides to them but wondered how patients feel about having them replaced periodically.

Secondly, it seems the pumps are placed in people’s stomachs, right? Most of what I’ve learned is some meds work better when taken with food and water. And maybe the organs there have a lot of, uhmm, adjacent nerve endings? Are these the reasons MDs place pumps in stomachs?

Beck, I really appreciate any reply as I know you have a life.