Purposefull
Bluelighter
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- May 10, 2016
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I've brought this up before, but my father, almost 90 has been taking both fentynol patches along with hydrocodone for several years for back pain from severe spinal stenosis. He's become rather feeble with dementia and forgets to take his medicine or takes too much and one topic that always comes up with family and my dad is "cutting back" as if there is some easy and painless way for a 90 year old person to go through withdrawal without any ill effects. It's of course madness because he'll feel so utterly horrible and it could kill him and yet everyone in my family who has never felt the pain of withdrawal seems to think they know how it works.
I'm not even sure if they even believe there's no such thing as feeling horrible from withdrawal much less withdrawal for an elderly person..
I know how it feels and they all know that I know and yet they all seem to think he's going to somehow be immune from it..
MADNESS! I wouldn't wish withdrawal on my own worse enemy, but somehow my 90 year old father would be able to handle it just peachy keen?
I guess I'm a horrible person for wanting to slap each and every one of them whenever they start this foolishness. Luckily his doctor is on my side with this issue, but it seems to be a never ending line of stupidity..
I'm not even sure if they even believe there's no such thing as feeling horrible from withdrawal much less withdrawal for an elderly person..
I know how it feels and they all know that I know and yet they all seem to think he's going to somehow be immune from it..
MADNESS! I wouldn't wish withdrawal on my own worse enemy, but somehow my 90 year old father would be able to handle it just peachy keen?
I guess I'm a horrible person for wanting to slap each and every one of them whenever they start this foolishness. Luckily his doctor is on my side with this issue, but it seems to be a never ending line of stupidity..