The Pain Killer Dilemma

I was startled to see news that NSAIDS are now said to be unsafe, that they can cause strokes and heart attacks and there is no safe period of time to take them.  I take Aleve to stave off the pain from my neck injury, my back, my shoulder and my arthritis of the hands.  My finger joints are still swollen and stiff from over use last week.

Tylenol has already been soundly criticized as unsafe.  Aspirin can eat away your stomach.  So what exactly does a person take now for pain, that is safe?

Mary Jane?  It's legal now in Oregon.  You can grow it, up to four plants for personal use, but you can't buy it.  Buying is still illegal.  I've smoked pot a couple times in my life. I hate it.  I like reality a lot more than the extended daze, sometimes with hallucinations, that pot provides.

I could not tolerate its use for chronic pain.  Aleve and ice have been what I've always used.

I did the flea market again.  This time, made about $48 for the Happy Cat Club.  That's not bad for a few hours of time I'd otherwise waste at home.  There were over 100 garage sales advertised in the area going on yesterday.  Considering the grange is way out in the country, to make $48 with so much competition going on, pretty darn good.

I had my sign up again

Otherwise life is very quiet.  Temperatures have plummeted into the 70's. There's been rain with thunderstorms in eastern Oregon and could be rain in the valley on Friday.  People are excited over it.  Some are, at least, since we're so behind on rainfall and the rivers are so low that fish are endangered.  Others are already complaining about the loss of what was considered the new norm, of 90 plus degree days.

Oh how we need our reasons to whine.

Sweet Slinko

Miss D with the Sunflowers

I continue to pay for auto insurance, liability only, because that's all I can afford, even though I am aware that probably a quarter of county residents on the road have no insurance (just a guess, based on people I know of, who drive, and the number of those who drive without insurance).  I play by the rules, but so many don't and get away with it.   And if one of the uninsured people plow into me?  Then I really lose.   They will get away with it and suffer nothing.   Since I have no comprehensive, I'll be stuck with figuring out how to pay to fix my car.  Or replace it.

So I get stewed each time I have to renew the policy and pay out hundreds.  Just the way it is, when you think you are paying out for nothing and know the companies do anything, once you have had an accident, to pay out the least possible to help you back on your feet.

My insurance company dared to send me a survey asking how I would rate their service?  What service, I told them.  I pay you hundreds a year and as far as I know, it goes into some deep dark black hole never to be seen again.  If I have a wreck, even if its not my fault, you'll raise my rates or drop me.   What service?

Insurance benefits bad drivers and penalizes good drivers.  That's how insurance is.  I wonder what our world would be like if there was no insurance, no health insurance, no car insurance, no trip insurance, no homeowners insurance, no life insurance......people would have a lot more money.   If you had a wreck, would the at fault party pay up to right the wrong and could injured parties get medical care cheaper if dropping insurance, as the high paid "middle man", helped drop the price?

I wonder.