First of all remember that I am a hillbilly...common sence is not genitic, since there are no forks in my family tree. I hope in my posts I do not tread in anybodys water...sometimes people dont understand what I am saying and I don't want to come off disrespectful. Each and every one of us suffer in some way..and will go to any lengths to find relief..so this is my story about smoking medical marijuana..
Rembering the first two symptoms of SJS dry mouth, and itchy dry eyes..and dry this and that...dry,dry...dang, I am dryer than a popcorn fart ! And I was blessed with wonderful dental problems...after all the lower jaw bone graphs and my teeth falling out I have great plastic ones now. So cousin Buck (the family stoner) is over and tells me that this medical pot will help me with the pain thing...yeah, I thinking...no pain hmmmm..Okay !!! light that bad boy up!! Guess what!!!! that is one of my biggest mistakes ever...my eye lids were sticking to my eyes and had to grease them...one of my favorite things to do. Any of us that wear plastic teeth know that moisture is what keeps them in. I then realized what the term "cotton mouth" really was..I was so durn dry I couldn't swaller any liquid..and the munchies set in...need I say more.. I wont let some dumb bunny cousin talk me in doing that one again....It did not work for me...just my 2cents
Yep, me again..I forgot to mention that I suffer greatly from brain fog...i call it DRS syndrome (don't remember s%*t) Smoking pot made me look really look hard for my brain..for the life of me I couldn't figure out were I put it !
Hairball, Well I can't even begin to imagine anybody with brain fog even thinking about smoking that stuff. it's said that it burns the brain cells, shoot I would thing those of us struggling would try as they might to hold on to every brain cell they had.
Truthfully I can't speak to this fact, but it is said that it does really help with some pains, or does it just dumbs the part of brain that deals with pain, killin off cells as it go? Or is it just a reason to use? Don't know enough about it to accept or reject this concept of it being used for med. for pain.
Hairball, You tell you coussin, it's against the law to share px med. and maybe he won't offer again! You never said if it helped with actual pain.
Hi :)
I've certainly read that it's meant to help some MS sufferers and can also be useful for arthritis.
There isn't the medical stuff in this country but there was a local woman arrested for supplying local pensioners. She used it like herbs in soup and also cooked it into chocolate. I don't know if it's as drying when eaten. It's not something I've tried recently. One of the kids at work did offer to supply me - but I declined.
I would think smoking anything would make the dryness worse. I used to be a smoker but nowadays other people's smoke really goes for my eyes, mouth and windpipe.
Take care - Scottie :)
Hey Hairball!
Medical marijuana, hummmm, that would put me under my desk for a few days or so (or someone's desk that is! ;)).
Take care of yourself and be safe out there (one day we'll have to compare who has the most "hillbilly" relatives, I'm pretty sure that mine will give yours a run for the money! ;) :) -
Patze
Mmmmmm would love to add to this post, but am worried about been banned lol !!! ;D
Are we talking WV hillbillys?
Harlin,
Girl where you at? Ain't you over in England, or am I getting you mixed up with somebody else?
Cuz, if you ALL the way over there how you know bout WV hillbillies? Or anybody else's for that matter?
Which brings me to ask a question I have wondered a time or two before, Are there hillbillies in England?
Hey Harlin,
Nope, mine aren't WV hillbillies, but there are various pockets of them around the country, and I'm related to one of them (I wish it were WV, as that is some pretty country!).
Patze
Oh my, yes! That is beautiful land, we drove through there on our way to Ma. It was breathtaking!! The hills and slops with the quaint homesteads puts you in mind of a beautiful painting.
While on our way back home we stopped to get something to eat and met some of the nicest locals!
Hairball.....LOL.....Thanks, before my cuzin got to me w/the same deal.....LOL....thanks for a great story
Daddy's family are from West <by gawd> Virginia and Momma's family are from Kentucky.....this spells H I L L B I L L Y !!
Patze.....we should sit for a while and chew the fat :)
You got it Cally! :D
Patze
I am a true WV hillbilly!!! Born and raised in WV all my 56 years. It truely is beautiful country but I could really do without all this snow. about a foot so far. I am homebound again.
Glad some of you have been to our beautiful state!
hugs harlin
Harlin I'm not that far from you, and we're approaching a foot now, and the thought of having to go out and digging out the car is not setting so well with me at the moment.
And I've through that beautiful state a couple of dozen times so far, and I hope to be able to hang out there a day or two this spring.
Patze
Come see me and sit by the pool when it is warm. I am always home except on dr apt days.
harlin
Sounds like a plan to me Harlin! :)
Patze
We were once again promised snow, but it passed us up. to be honest I am so very glad, I got things to do! I however feel for you guys that's knee deep!
I can actually relate to these hillbilly stories and comments. Both of my parents are from Kentucky and so all of my family is still there. I love going back home to visit. The people are so friendly and it is just such a beautiful place.
I have friends who still don't understand some of the things that I try to say or how I say it. I guess we are just different folks. lol
I was born and raised in TN. left at age of 19 came back for visits, but was in my 30s when I moved back home. Growing up here friends used to always teased me about the way I talked, when I was away only once people found out where I was from did they comment on my "accent" now I'm back home and people still comment on the way I talk. Someone just the other day asked where I was from. I told her here, where are you from? she said she was from Philly, so I then told her my husband was from there as well. She tells me she would have never thought I was from TN. your husband must have rubbed off on you! Well I really didn't know how to take that. so I told her Yeah! I know I have a very strange voice, it trips alot of people up.
My voice really don't fit any one place, it's not a southern one for sure, I think the way I sometime laugh or express things when I talk confuses most, Don't know! There are some from my home state and other southern states that I honestly can not understand, I have to take time to put it together! It's all good though, I love it all, makes life more exciting!
Same with me Bernice, I quit explaining and just smile now a days (the joys of growing up everywhere). :)
Patze
This is for Bernice and anyone else who is interested...OT<sorta>...lol.....<short version>The name hillbilly CAME from Ireland.....because of King William. People from the "hills" of Ireland who came to U.S. were "known" to support King William (or Billy) so they just called most of the Northern Irish, HILLBILLYS...so NO ONE would forget where they came from..whoever heard of Irish bickerig and quarreling? (snicker)..And that is our lesson today on hillbillys ;D Isn't that cool? To know where it came from? My kids love that story.
Cally57,
Yeah, well you can just bet the Hillbillies of of America today sure put a different twist on the meaning.
I bet if you even asked 29 out of 30 who the heck this King William was their answer would be "Who dat?" And as far as Ireland goes they would swear you were a revenuer coming trying to steal or stake claims on some of their land, Coming around talkin bout Our- land! If he ain't BillyBob, somebody's cousin or brother from over younder next doe, ain't no need in all that talk bout no King William TODAY! ;D ::) ;D
Thanks for the edumacation, I sure didn't know none of that! ;) ;D
Yes it was a long time ago :) ...we have a lotta oral history some tarn ne'r a storie most likes...mostly ya orn't ta git sumthin to et for dem chilldrens :) And if you haint from a holler or hill-yee go'nt git buckshot in dem britches .... LOL....I love goin home too...especially W.Va where ya gotta look up to see the sun shining :D My uncle still lives in Cow Path, W.Va.... Daddy always called me "Baby Doll" even when I wasn't a baby or a doll anymore...LOL...Great Granddaddy had 27 children, he married four times and each wife was a little younger than the one before (I got pictures). He was 70 they say when the last was born...ahem. Who knows, I got records sayin it is true....so that is cool....but the the GOOD stories are gone now-just dont talk bout sech thangs.
My BEST two pics are of the "shanty" house with no curtains and a iron post bed can be seen in the winder. outside a quilt hand made with special names and dates adorned the side of the house, hung upside down :) That was grandma's sister. I love my family history.
who started this? I am thinkin it was hairball....he be quiet now!! LOL....all have a nice night.
p.s. Including today.....if I gotta have my back watched, I prefer a hilllbilly :D
You got that right! I love my history too. Everytime we get toghether we retell stories after stories that have been handed down of the old people, man were they a hoot, but most of my people moved up north leaving alot of the land that was owned by their parents. I hardly have anyone here besides my immediate family, my mom came back here to live in the 50s, thank God she came to the city, she's alot like me scared of EVERYTHING that creeps and crawls. I had a greatuncle and grandmother that lived in the country but they all are dead now. Loved them with all my heart, they were proper backwood people. Yall know we got some Hillbillies here in TN. Salt of the earth kind of people!
I have always lived in the city, don't know if I could have survived living out in the country like my grands.
There you are hairball...I figured you maybe got stuck in a snow pile :) I am in a very rural area of MN now. What would daddy say bout that!! Up north w/the heathens!! lol....
It's in your DNA...what you dont remember you would learn, not complain..and just do what needs doin.
Yeah hillbillys are always short an to the point, cept when a tellin a story <big smile>. I belong to a state tribe in NE Alabama...very close to TN line. Chickamagua's
Glad you survived the snow. TN, eh? Beautiful country. Good people down there. Take Care, hugs.
Cally,
I see where you said you belong to a tribe, my grandmother was Cherokee Indian, but she moved from her people and we have lost all contact. Often wonder about this!
Hey Cally,
Oh boy, Cow Path! I've been there a time or two - well, through it anyway! I've spent time in towns that barely had a name, and you'd never find them on any "official" map that is. ;) :)
Patze