Welcome Sammy

Hi Sammy,

I've been taking it easy today, and just now got to the computer. I'm in hopes you are doing fine and will post back to me. Actually I'm trying to fix the glitch I have with posting.

I do want to hear from you either here or email.

Love you much,
Barbara

Welcome Sammy!
I'm so glad that you've found your way to this forum!! I'm still so thankful that I found my way, as well. This is a wonderful place, full of warmth & understanding about addiction, but also recovery! There is so much knowledge floating around this place that it still amazes me! Deborah puts in alot of hard work to assure that all of the facts published are actual & up-to-date. Also, if there's anything that your wondering about that is not on here, all you need to do is ask & someone WILL be right there with you to help find the answers!! Like I said, Welcome Sammy!! I look forward to getting to know you better & hear how things are going for you!! I'm sorry, I always seem to do this, where I go on & on, without first introducing myself. (my thoughts aren't always so organized!) Start over..
Hi Sammy!! My name is Beth & I have been on the Suboxone since this past May. It has saved my life, as well as helping me change my whole life around! It's really been a "miracle med" to me!! I tried to quit using opiates for too many years, failing over & over, that I no longer even believed change was possible! Not only possible, but now, probable!! I am very blessed. I still have daily gratitude that the Subs exist!
I'd love to hear how the Subs or Meth have helped change your life, as well. Please let me hear from you, even if your not comfortable sharing too much yet, even a "hello" would be great!! We love to hear that your doing okay!!
I have to tend to one of the babies at the moment, but hope to talk to you soon!!
Yours in Recovery,
Beth

Hi Sammy,
Just saying, welcome again!
Your Friend,
Beth

Hi Sammy,

If you will look at all the posts, you will find you have been posted to more than anyone else. You don't have to post just at the methadone site...you can post in the inspirational section or send private messages. You do that by clicking on members and choosing the person you want to send a private message to by clicking on PM by their name. I'd love to hear from you. We have been friends for over a year now.I want cha here, girly.

Yours in spirit,
Barbara

Hi Sammy,
I didn't know if you saw the post under "Hi, I'm New Here" as I know that you said you had troubles trying to get around the site still. You can check the posts that you've written, & the responses to it, by clicking on "View Your Posts" as that will drop down all of the previous posts that you've ever written. Hope that helps you to find the posts that you were looking for earlier.
Also, I was very glad to see that Dee had responded to point out the dangers of the Ultram, as I'd thought that it was safe since my doctor had offered to prescribe it. Especially because that information was saying that it can potentially lead to seizures, but I'm already epileptic, so that would not be a good idea for me at all. Please make sure to check & double check the drug interactions because it doesn't seem like alot of these doctors even quite know yet. Just at my last appointment, my doctor wrote me a rx for "Seroquel" for help sleeping. Yet, once I checked with my local pharmicist & Deborah (the creator of this site) and learned more about this medication & its side effects, as well as how hard it is to go off of, etc. I decided to not even fill the prescription. I know my personality & could probably get addicted to Tylenol, so I'm not taking anything that says to watch for abuse potential. That's a road I never want to travel again! Please, just pay close attention to the effects of those types of meds before just taking them because the doctor gave them to you. I just don't want to see anything happen to you or your husband, especially if it could be avoided.. It seems like in my past, I'd never even question it if a doctor gave me an rx, I went & filled it. But as I've become more educated about the drug interactions, etc. I just can't believe that I'm not already dead! I loved mixing pills, my "potpourri of pills" feeling the effects of opiates, benzos, stimulants, alcohol(depressants)- anything to help take away the pain!! Mainly self induced, but pain, none the less..
I'm going to close this up for tonight. I just received a call from my hubby, who has been working out of town for a few days, to let me know that he was on his way home & did I need him to pick anything up. He wasn't supposed to come home until tomarrow night at the earliest, but more likely to be Sunday night, so I'm hoping that everything is okay... I want to get a pot of coffee going so that we can sit down & catch up. We like to make a fire in the fireplace & sit in front of it, smoking cigarettes & drinking coffee, catching up with each other & trying to literally catch our wild babies! One of them has more energy than both of us combined!
Wild Monkies!!!
Hope everything is going well with you, as well as for your husband.
I look forward to hearing from you soon!!
Yours,
Beth

Hi Sammy, I'm here in case you didn't see my post.

Love,
Barbara

Hi Sammy,

I just got in a while ago from spending the day off amd wanting to answer you and will do so under the sections they have for us under personal post, so please go there. You are most welcome here and glad you have stayed with us.

Loves,
Barbara

Hi Sammy,

I'm a bit slow at saying hello to you. I'm Mez and live in Melbourne, Australia. We have been in strife with all the fires, I think everyone knows about them now. We are about 20 mins away from them and are still thanking our lucky stars that we live in a built up area by the sea.

My hubby is on suboxone too. We have never been on methadone but I wish you and your man all the best in your recovery. I love reading about your family and other people's kin on here.

Dee, I had no idea you had six kids? Five girls. I had two brothers and four other sisters. I thought you only had Kris. Not that it makes any difference to the amazing person you are. I just saw the line - five girls - and it brought back all those years with my sisters. All the stuff about how kids can hurt us is just starting to happen to us now. It reminds me of the pain that I put my parents through. I hope you are taking some panadol for your fever Dee. Do you call it panadol over there? Or is it called Tylenol? Have you got the flu? I hope you rest up Girl!

Beth, how are you going? I would love to be sitting with you all, having a cuppa and a ciggie in front of a warm fireplace on a cold night. We used to always pull up our dresses or skirts over our bums and stand in front of the fire. Those were the days.

Beautiful Barb. You got chickens too? We used to breed chooks. I'd much rather have a few to love than farm them. It just didn't suit Neil and I. How is your kin going? I hope your foot is getting better. Can you get back into your ballet points yet? (That's a joke). I did ballet for years and ended up with a bloody deformed foot as a result.

Thanks for sharing.

Love Mez. XXXX

Hello Sammy, Mez & everybody!
I hope that you all are doing well. I haven't had much of a chance to get onto here lately, as I normally had been. I've really missed being here & seem to really notice myself needing these friendships that I've made here more than ever. Life has been hectic in my corner of the world! But I know that we're all dealing with stress & I'm trying to just plow through it hour by hour. That can make for extremely loong days!
How did the radio program go last night? I didn't get to listen to this one yet due to being at work last night. I plan on pulling it back up so that I can hear it. I'd really enjoyed the last one at the beginning of December & hated to miss out last night!
Mez, I had no idea about all of the fires in your area. Are they seasonal wildfires that were expected or how did they start? You mentioned that you were still looking for your son. Have you found Gus yet? Is he not still living with you? Is Tegan in a safe area as well or has she been affected by these fires too? That'd be terribly scary, especially as a mother. I hope that you are all safe & together! Sending prayers your way!
I'm really needing to close this up already, as I still have so much to get accomplished before leaving for work once again tonight! I hope that everybody is doing well & enjoying the warm weather!!
Love,
Beth

Beth,

Thanks for your post. My kids are alright. The fires are still blazing and my husband has to go there tomorrow to survey the area with the firefighters. Can you believe that most of our state is a crime scene? When the temperature hit 47 D. Celcius on Saturday, the media announced that it was the hottest day on record. So of course the firebugs came out of the woodwork so to speak.

So far 6000 people have lost their homes, 200 are dead and many more men, women and children are missing. As for the beautiful wildlife around here - it is all gone. The lady we help around the corner from us has her house full of koalas, parrots, possums, lizards etc. All have been burnt by the fires. We help feed them and take some in. It's just so sad. Hard to think of anything else which makes me feel guilty when I jump on here. Then i heard how Barbara had a fire herself. Thank God she is Ok.

I love reading the posts on here. Its good to get out of my head and my tedious self obsession that flares up from time to time. Are you in a new job or is this one that you have had for a while? How is your beautiful brood? Thanks for being here, Beth. You have been a good help with the crap that has gone on with Angus. We have had his dramas die down a bit. Thank God.

Thanks for sharing. Mez. X