Back at last

Well, after a lengthy hiatus I’m back and trying to get into the pattern of reading disability blogs again, and keeping up with my own. The long pause has largely been due to a return to University. I handed the last of my papers a week ago, bringing the term to a successful end.

To a lot of people it doesn’t seem like much. I did three courses, the bare minimum to be full time and pretty much had to stop everything else to pull that off. Even then, if it weren’t for some good friends and the immense support of my wife I don’t think I could have pulled it off.

I’m now into recovery phase. This is both the obvious aspect of trying to catch up on some rest, but also letting my body recover from the toll of the medication levels I needed to get through the term. As much as I loath using drugs more than absolutely necessary I got well into the higher doses of the narcotic I use for pain management.

Amongst the result was a rush to the doctor’s a couple of weeks ago as side affects finally took their toll. Now I’m finishing a treatment for the side effects and getting ready to break the addiction to the narcotic itself.

I’m fortunate that its a synthetic opioid and as such the addiction is no where as severe as other narcotics I’ve had to use in the past. I’m also going to be coming of an anti-depressant in the next few weeks so that I can try a new daily pain management drug.
So, instead of catching up on all the things I had to put off during Uni, I’ll be sitting in bed letting my body recoup. At least it means I’ll be able to catch up on my reading.