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Are we headed for an "addcited to pills" storyline? Zzzzz…… I’ll pass – thanks!
I’m sorry, I know I’m in the minority, but I have ZERO interest in finding out who John is. It’s been too long – we’ve been told he’s A but then he’s B. Then he was half Brady and half DiMera. Nope nvm – he isn’t.
Too many bait & switches for me. Not interested.
and I am somewhat interested in John’s story, simply because the end game might finally bring him and Marlena to working together to solve what’s going on with this woman who claims to be his mother, and is she working with someone, or is she being forced to cooperate with whoever is behind trying to kill John? Frankly, I’m more interested in who Stefano called stating they would soon get their check, which leads me to suspect Andre could be involved in John’s story as well. Is Andre working with Eduardo to set John up? But, you’re right TFlo1018, John’s true parentage has been done to death. If this sl is to be believed, it must finally end and either she really is his mother or not, but let’s end this search, writers. All he needs in his life is his family back in Salem, because they are the ones who have stuck by him all these years.
As for Jennifer, I’m sure we are, indeed, heading for a painkiller addiction sl for her. It’s okay with me if we are, because God knows she needs to have something in her life to worry about beside Abigail and J.J. All depends on, like everything else with these writers, how it’s written.
Jen/pills SL because it’s so in the headlines these days and it should give Missy R. some meaty scenes.
Yeah, this who’s John’s parents has gotten so stale with no resolution. And how can we ever believe what’s real after all these years. Unless they amp up the action, it’s a snooze for me.For one reason is it hits close to home. After all my surgeries last year that has left me handicapped, I am on morphine six times a day and it is a real concern for me. Eventually, you become accustomed to them and they don’t give you the pain relief they once did and it is very difficult to keep from wanting to amp up the dosage for better relief. My pain management doctor tells me I will not get addicted but you do become dependent. An addiction results in illegal activities, etc. just to get more pills.
Florida has instituted some very strict rules for getting and using controlled substances (much to the dismay of those who really need them as opposed to the addicts) so it will be interesting to see whether or not they will take them into consideration. It was to curb the pill mills but has hurt the honest users more than anything else.
I had no idea things had gotten so tough. Gentle hugs.
I ruptured L4/L5 several years ago in March or April. Surgery wasn’t until late June/early July so I was on painkillers for a few months, taking them mostly at night so I could sleep. A few weeks after surgery I decided I no longer needed them, so I didn’t take one. Man, I woke up in the middle of the night sweating like a $40 mule and shaking. My body was saying, "Excuse me, where is that red thing you’ve been giving me for the past few months." I called the surgeon’s nurse the next day and she told me to take half of one for a few days to wean myself off. That worked, but I’ve never forgotten how it felt to have those withdrawals.
That happened to me once when my pills were delayed in the mail (that’s the only way I can get them). I went two days without and, let me tell you, it was absolute hell. Horrible nightmares, sweating, can’t sleep, can’t stay awake. Can’t sit down, can’t lie down, can’t stand up, nothing makes you comfortable. I have saved a few in a stash in case that ever happens again so I don’t ever have to go through that again. And the longer you take them, the longer it takes to wean off.
this storyline is going to happen relatively quickly which isn’t realistic as far as I am concerned. After one month or less of being on painkilers you don’t really notice that someone is addicted since very often people are on pain meds, prescribed, for way longer than that before they are abusers/addicts. 3 or 4 weeks on pain meds is totally not uncommon and not considered abusive.
you do not become an addict unless you ARE an addict. The normal person who takes controlled substances over a long period of time becomes “dependent,” not addicted. The difference is that the addict will do anything, particularly illegal means to get the drugs.
So I don’t expect to see Jenn become “addicted.” Although, knowing Days, anything is possible. Maybe we’ll see her all dressed in black breaking into a pharmacy in the middle of the night to get her “fix.” :o)
Anybody remember the Frank Sinatra movie, ‘The Man With the Golden Arm’? That made a very powerful impression on me at my tender young age and may have kept me from ever taking illegal drugs through my early years. It’s worth renting if you haven’t seen it. Especially the withdrawal scenes. In fact, when I was on chemo, my friends tried to get me to smoke some weed to help relieve the nausea and I locked myself in the bathroom to do it, even then I was still scared to death I was going to get caught.
I would love to see sweet little Jennifer as a criminal, LOL. But still after 3 weeks or less would that be long enough to form a dependency? Doesn’t it take some time for your body to build up a resistance to the drugs requiring more and more frequent dosing? I remember an episode of the Golden Girls where Rose was taking pain pills for her back for many years and no one knew that she needed the danged pills to sleep at night. She had to go to a rehab center to wean off them. I just think that the rapid fire development of a dependency is not realistic. I mean previuosly the only dependency Jenn had was the Salem tea and Gram’s donuts and that was because she was indulging in them all her life, LOL.
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