Today, Connie got off the boat to get away from the patient! Yes I have been mostly flat on my back since Christmas. I have had a chronic back problem I have lived with and worked around for some time but this time it dropped me to my knees and I have been mostly incapacitated for over a week. My problem is that every time I felt somewhat better I would go out and reinjure myself with heay lifting like.... streching a bungy cord or.... trying to turn over in bed. Everyone has taken pity on me and given me medications and the last two days I have taken a Central American medicine known as Musflex. It seems to be helping so I have been dosing and laying about for the last 36hrs barely getting out of bed, until I got up to make this post and explain we are still alive and safely achored in French Harbor. It wasnt until I fired up the internet to make this post and determined through research that the drug I am taking is banned in the Scandanavian countries and only available with a prescription elsewhere (except of course where we are). For my pharmacy Tech son the drug is Carisoprodol so that when I become addicted he can lead the intervention and by chance get a vacation in sunny Roatan.
Connie bless her heart went ashore today in what she claims was near horizontal rain that she braved to bring me my stash from the pharmacy, which oh by the way is across the street from Applebees where she waited out the worst of the storm and by some accounts actually ate lunch while I had a peanut butter cracker on the boat.
Hope to make a full recovery, I will keep you posted.