donberry

The day before I am going on my 2000+ mile ride, with plans to leave at sun up the next morning, my phone quits working. I use my phone as my gps and my music player. I had planned on importing my custom routes that day, so instead of packing and doing last minute details, I spend the entire day trying to get my phone to work.
Finally around 5 pm, I give up. I then run to walmart and pick up a Garmin Nuvi 50 they have on sale for $79, plus a 8gb phillips mp3 player for $59.00.
Not even out the door yet and I have spent $150 I had not planned on.
So I get home around 6:30 or so and spend some time trying to figure out how to import my custom route into the garmin. After way too long, I find out that you can't import custom routes into this, so then have to figure out how I make my own custom route (not hard once u figure it out - tedious maybe, but not hard).
GPS figured out, I of course have to then get it mounted. Turned out my son had a mount for a smartphone for his bicycle that would work, so I "borrow" it and get it mounted on the bike.
Getting late, I now have to get my music. Music is a BIG hobby of mine and I do not listen to mp3's, only lossless, so now I have to convert 700 songs to mp3, which is easy, but takes more time.
I finally get to bed around 1:30, plan on leaving around 6 am.

I could not sleep, I am tossing and turning, feeling very uncomfortable. Around 3 - 3:30, my skin starts to feel like I have little bugs crawling all over it and I feel absolutely horrible - then it dawns on me - I was so busy messing with the phone and stuff, I forgot my afternoon dose of medicine.

I have a pretty severe back problem, along with some ancillary things, and I take morphine twice a day. So I couldn't sleep as I was actually going thru withdrawal (Lennon's Cold Turkey nails it).
So I run into the kitchen to take my medicine, but then have another 30-40 minutes or so before it "kicks" in and I can finally go to sleep - so it is now around 4:30.

I end up not getting up until 8:00 am, but by the time I load the bike up, which I put off because of the broken phone fiasco, I do not leave the house until around 9:30 am........

A very, very bad start to a long road trip.

Fortunately, it had turned out to be an absolutely gorgeous day and I had the start of a trip adrenaline going so it turned out to be a really nice ride that day.
But I think it is safe to say it had to be one of the worst starts to a trip..........everything else did go great tho with nary a problem.
A trip planner I am not

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RITBlake

How do I get setup so I can take morphine twice a day?

RITBlake

Glad you got on the road safely though. I always suffer from a poor night sleep before any big kickoff. Whether it be the opening of hunting season, a big meeting at work, or a long ride on the bike. Still haven't found a solution.

Polovision

That's why I like each device to do one thing. Music play, phone, camera...


I end up not getting up until 8:00 am, but by the time I load the bike up, which I put off because of the broken phone fiasco, I do not leave the house until around 9:30 am........

Reminds me of the time Ronnie and I started a road trip but he had a back case of the runs. Set us back about 4 hours and luckily we had not left home yet.

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Two Red Ryders

Those of us on meds, all seem to forget our meds now and again and often the lack of meds will remind us of why we take them.

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bipestuff

What a hassle, hope your trip went well!

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donberry

it's pretty simple actually. 1st you need to have your spine literally slowly grow together until it is fused into one solid bone (talk about pinched nerves). Then you have to have ancillary problems which cause you to have both hips replaced, bad knees and pretty much zero mobility, which of course causes some pretty agonizing pain for 30 years. My head turns absolutely zero degrees.....my spine is a solid piece of bone. Which can make looking thru a turn rather difficult at times,l not to mention sightseeing......
Personally, I'd rather do without the morphine.

Actually, is my opinion that percocet, hydrocodone etc get you more "high" than morphine.
Tho if I were going to get high, I do not see the point of downers - I would take uppers, mesc, lsd etc any day. Never thought sitting and vegging on a couch would be much fun......

yes, trip went great actually. Fantastic weather except for one little typhoon in Port Lavaca.
The night I came home it was 54 degrees out. last noght, it was 28. The universe was looking out for me

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Schmiddy

I spent a couple of years unable to move my upper body--upper thoracic cavity colapsed (don'ty ask). I was on morphine for a long time. I agree that hydrocodone seems to make me feel higher than morphinie. BUT, getting off the morphine was absolute h**l. I never want to feel like that again. I hope your trip went well!

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DCinCT

welcome back and glad the trip went well although a bit eventfull at the start... personally i rather have seperate items to use as needed...mp3...gps i keep in saddlebag unless needed..phone in pocket and not on bike in case something happens I can't get to the bike and I need help and camera in windshield pouch...alot of added items but rather lose or one go down and have the rest than all-in-one go down and then have nothing.

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Shadow Kat

Here's a question for you: If you weren't in enough pain to tell you that you forgot your morphine maybe you can start to get tappered down from it? Something to discuss w/ a provider.
I'm not down playing your pain, I know it's real. But maybe it's at a point where you don't need something as strong as morphine or as often.
Just something to think about.

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