My heroin OD, Hearing Loss and Right arm paralysis

1500 Purchased 4 .2 pointers on 9/11/11. Tolerance near 0% as last use of opiates occurred 3.5 months previously. Although overweight, no significant health problems. Dealer was puking uncontrollably. He said be careful.

1800 insuffulated .025 g, extreme euphoria and about 99.5% high. fentanyl suspected.

1825 Stupidly inject .3 g filter sterilized and washed and proceed to massively OD with no sitter. (I do not know why I did this, I was already amazingly high, wtf was I thinking)

0600 no call no show @ work

1000 friend calls parents and tells them to check on me ASAP!

1100 no response at apartment, parents break in to find son non-responsive very shallowly breathing and hypoxic. EMS called.

1130 o2 levels low, breathing and vitals barely detectable. rushed to ER.

1200 toxicology shows opiates, narcan administered.

1220 post ictal self finds right arm to be paralyzed, ears not working, and legs screaming in pain due to massive seizure at some point during overdose. significant muscle tearing had occurred.

1221 belligerently fights off 3 cops, 2 nurses and one 6'5" father while screaming "What have you fuckers done to me!?"

1225 sedated with unknown agent, and med-evacd to larger city hospital.

spends next 4 days in ICU still nodding off. catheterized, ct and mri looking for stroke. some pt and ot for arm, which has about 25% function. hearing about 30%.

09/15/11 transferred to psychiatric for substance abuse.
Kiss ass and very polite(i had already seen one flew over the cuckoos nest. caution heeded), released to parents care on 9/18.

Right arm at 65% functionality, coming back slowly. ulnar nerve damage, pinky and ring finger numb/pins and needles, same for arm above the elbow.

Hearing muffled and distorted but at about 70-80% functionality.


Well chaps, it was a good run. But I will never do heroin again, as playing guitar, my hearing, and my fucking arm and life are worth more to me.

Heroina, why'd you have to kiss me so sweetly only to bite my lip and be unfaithful?
Dear... do please fuck yourself right off.
 
43 missed calls, mostly frantic why dont you answer pleas.

If I had to title the event, id call it 43 missed calls.

I just found out my fever was 104 when I was admitted to the hospital.
 
Hearing is at maybe 80%, it appears to be improving, however it could be compensatory processing like when you mess with your stereos EQ.

Right arm strength is improving using a pressure ball, can now move arm above my head. Feels like fireworks as the nerves are coming back... very odd sensation. Can very sloppily pick at the guitar now.

Left leg muscle tearing healed in straight position, so I am stretching the muscle which is tight as hell but my gait and steadiness is improving.

I ditched all of my meds except lamictal, stupid psyches had me on abilify, zantac, zoloft, and a pissy reaction to keppra.

In summation, there appears to be hope even after severe damage due to overdose. I skipped NA, I dont think hanging out with junkies socially will help my cravings.
 
My buddies are coworkers, they are on shift. I hung out all yesterday and looked at real-estate with my bro today... My friends are clean... which is why I prefer their company, BTW I don't consider Bl'ers junkies, Id say the average intelligence around here is significantly above the national mean.
 
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