Wow!. last night I slept 9 hours straight. Still a little woozy and i keep hearing what sounds like a Nikon 35mm camera shutter going off in my head. that's odd. but I think I have crossed the rubicon! There are some memory gaps from the past week. After re-reading my posts I believe my apology should be extended to BrS as well, and especially Adam who works there. So sorry Adam, please accept my apology. Anybody that's been doing this long enough knows that reef-keeping is light years ahead of the days before the internet. BRS is largely responsible for that.
Being an old fool, and with nothing better to do, I want to fill in some gaps here.
My problem started about 4 years ago when i was put on oxygen and stopped working. I was getting pretty bored and my wife suggested that I focus on the garden and keep myself busy. my sons could help with the tilling and planting. All i had to do was water and pick vegetables!
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So we planted a bigger garden with 17 fruit trees. I was just growing it and giving it away! It's pretty gratifying to give people quality fruits and vegetables.
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I was still having health problems but overall things were good. then about 9 months ago the Doc dropped the diabetes bombshell on me. he knew i had been kind of down and must have been concerned about the look on my face. ( I was actually wondering what would happen to my wine collection more than the diabetes. Had even been considering where I could squeeze in a few rows of grapes) So he put me on the dreadful pills (the kind where you work your way up to a full dose and don't forget to take them), along with diabetes meds.
When i got home my wife sais "well since you won't be buying any more wine, why not build the fish tank you always wanted? It might even cost less money!" (HE HE, not ). So I pulled the bookshelf out of the hole where I had built my house around a fish tank stand years before and started taking measurements.
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But I was having a lot of trouble sleeping. I even gave up my beloved coffee. Still it got so bad I would sleep an hour at a time with a nightmare squeezed in.
Finally my addled brain decided it might be those dreadful pills. Being a do-it-yourself kind of person i decided to wean myself off without going to the doctor. I love my doc, he's a great guy. but i hate hospitals and medical care in general.
That was a pretty rough ride let me tell you. I was sitting on my porch, tears streaming down, with Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" sounds swirling in my head. that's when i remembered the wine collection. Maybe it would help with these withdrawal symptoms. It had been sitting there collecting dust all this time. No need to wait for it to chill, I'll just be like the romans and drink it a room temperature. really bad idea, DON'T EVER DO DAT!
Well we all know what happened after that. Did I learn anything from all this? Certainly not about posting stuff on the internet, because i just did it again. old fool! But in the future i will be wary of designer drugs put out by pharmaceutical companies. I know they help a lot of people. But as for me, i just think there are chemicals there that don't belong in the human body.
And that's the end of my long, arduous post. I need to go take care of my little animals, who have been sorely neglected as of late.
