In the search terms on my stats page, I saw:
prayer for acute pancreatitis
Dear person searching for a prayer for acute pancreatitis, I’m afraid there isn’t one, outside of the often heard oh gods, just let me fucking die!, but morphine really, really helps. I know, from experience. Depend on morphine, it’s reliable, unlike gods.
Really sorry to hear there are others in this club, I said, bleakly.
Yeah. Morphine. :-(
Thankfully, I haven’t had another occurrence since ‘012. Had the gall bother yanked, and that solved the problem for me.
And another Yeah. Morphine. Holy shit, the pain of it. It’s unreal.
My friend Sazz, who was in Vietnam, told me about this guy he saw who blew his foot apart with a mine; they gave him a battlefield dose of morphine, and apparently he walked back to the firebase on it, telling jokes and otherwise feeling no pain. If I recall the numbers right, the way it went was you got a battlefield dose and if it didn’t calm your pain, you got three. Because three was a peaceful death, and if a full dose didn’t do it, that’s where you were headed anyway.
Morphine is fine stuff, and when you have acute pancreatitis, you get it via initial injection, then IV.
Marcus:
That’s a kindness.
I am not a death penalty advocate, but why the fuck if a state is going to perform one anyway can’t they just do this instead of the bullshit they do now?
What, and let a criminal die peacefully, with dignity? In Amerikka?
Yeah, what was I thinking?
@Caine, not to nitpick but:
Do not forget that most people on death row in history were in all probability innocent of the crimes for which they were condemned.
Too right, Charly. I should have clarified -- it’s that sort of thinking, that everyone in prison is a criminal, and they don’t deserve decent treatment is what drives the thinking behind death penalty attitudes, and basic penal attitudes here in the good ol’ U S of KKK.
Morphine’s the best!
But it did make me puke like a rock star the one time I had it …
Raucous Indignation, yep, it’s the best. Never has made me even remotely queasy. The only side effect it’s ever had on me is to remove any desire for cigarettes. (Which is not a bad thing, but no one will give you morphine on that basis.) :D
No. That’s not an approved usage!