How MJ helped my MOM for Mothers day

[sergio]

Ok alittle background first:

My mom was diagnosed with nerve damage 6 years ago causing very bad pain in her left foot. She started taking doctor prescribed meds for the pain and then after 4 years of meds her stomach started to hurt when she ate. She would get this burning sensation after eating and has lost 45lbs in the last two years. She is down to 95lbs. And she wants to eat but the burning is too much.

After over 50 doctor appts. and way more test not one doctor could find her problem or prescribe anything that would help her discomfort.

My mom is 65 years old and knows I smoked pot since I was a teenager but we had an understanding. RESPECT!!! I never did it in front of her or let her into that world.

Well after another disappointing DR. apointment on Tuesday I popped the Question while driving in the car on the way bringing her back home.

" MOm have You ever tried smoking pot for your discomfort?"

No she says why? Well I explain to her the amazing help people get from MJ. She says I'll try anything.


Ok so I pull out of my center console a fake red bull can that i keep my stash in and pour out 3-4 buds of White Widow. I give that to her and she says: " i don't have any papers to smoke it. So I hand her my in the car glass bowl and tell her to keep it.

She imediately packs herself a bowl and sparks it up.

OMG what A twilight zone moment!

I explain to wait until she gets home but it was too late . She blazing away in my truck.

Ok so I can't get her to stop talking so I can go back to work, I finally help her out of my car.

I call her a few hours later to find out how she feels. I ask Mom how do you feel?
" I ate" she says. And she was still waiting for the burning but it hadn't come yet she was relaxed and full burning free. Thank God!!!!!!!!!

So I talked to her today to get an update: She has had the 3 best days in the last 2 years. She has NO burning after she eats and is relax and she says her attitude and outlook are way better. She also says she has finnally met her neibors after 4 years and she says they are nice too. Her and this other old lady were up late last night laughing and talking. She says:" and she wasn't even stoned." LOL

Ok so my wife smokes and now I will be supporting my mom's medication too. I'm ok since it's the ONLY thing that has given her any relief in the last 2 years.

Come on Goverment get with the program.

[Smokey_mctoke]

Good for you and your mom for venturing beyond "traditional" medicine! Was she taking NSAID's by any chance? Those usually screw up you stomach when taken as painkillers for more than a few days.

For some reason all the old people I know that smoke seem to benefit far more from cannabis than the younger folk. Their quality of life seems to skyrocket when they begin to use, not so much among people of my age group. Maybe the Creator meant MJ to be used primarily by middle aged people and older? The younger you are, the more it seems that all it does is fuck you up. Teens specially. I dunno, just an observation.

[sergio]

Originally Posted by Smokey_mctoke

Good for you and your mom for venturing beyond "traditional" medicine! Was she taking NSAID's by any chance? Those usually screw up you stomach when taken as painkillers for more than a few days.

For some reason all the old people I know that smoke seem to benefit far more from cannabis than the younger folk. Their quality of life seems to skyrocket when they begin to use, not so much among people of my age group. Maybe the Creator meant MJ to be used primarily by middle aged people and older? The younger you are, the more it seems that all it does is fuck you up. Teens specially. I dunno, just an observation.

Not sure of her meds but I'm sure it wasn't that. Just can't remember.

I know what You mean and that was one of her first comments today. This is wonderful. I'm feeling better about life.

I hope others would try this. This was a huge leap of faith for me to even have the conversation. Let alone hooking her up.LOL

[Key2gb]

this is the kind of story that makes me feel better about the world haha...it's great to hear MJ can help out another person in need...if only the rest of the world realized how good it could all be....

[sergio]

Originally Posted by Key2gb

this is the kind of story that makes me feel better about the world haha...it's great to hear MJ can help out another person in need...if only the rest of the world realized how good it could all be....

Amen!!!!

[tiny_riots]

This story made my morning !!

That's so great! Your mom is no longer suffering!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[flowerchild]

thats awesome!
my mom is also 65, and from working most of her life with her hands, she has really severe arthiritis.
a couple years ago, i told her about all the benefits of MJ and she was skeptical at first, took her about a year to warm up to it.

she overdosed on painkillers/morphine patch in November.. i found her a pale greyish blue color, labored breathing, slow pulse one morning, and thats when everything crashed down around us both..

i was screaming at her, nothing. i picked her up, and her head slumped forward with a loud thump on my chest. the paramedics came and treated her almost violently, pulling her to the bottom of the bed, and pumping her chest. i have never been more scared in my life. i thought, this is the day i have had nightmares about. it felt so unreal- almost like i was watching it from the outside, and could see us both.

my family has a HUGe problem with addiction, and i finally realized that while her hydrocodones and lorcets did control the pain, they were destroying her liver, and she was mentally and physically addicted. she would take too many pills, and then be out of her prescription, finding other ways to get pills- from friends and reletives through the mail..

she was hospitalized for about a week and a half, and didn't seem to realize how lucky she was to be alive. she didn't seem to understand that she had been completely unresponsive for 2-3 days.

my brother (who just got out of rehab) and i sat down with her and told her that she needed to find other ways to control the pain, because her medication was controlling her life, and destroying it at the same time.

after my brothers left, i cared for my mom night and day. she was violently ill from withdrawing from various painkillers. she couldn't eat, couldn't sleep- was shaking all the time.. so i introduced the idea of using herb to help her appetite and sleeplessness. she hadn't eating in a couple days and i started by telling her how it increases appetite and calms the nerves. she was hesitant, but i loaded up a bowl and lit it for her. she took a few hits and i saw her visibly relax. after toking the bowl with her, i got up and made her a huuuuge peanut butter and jelly sandwhich with a big glass of milk and took it to her. she gobbled it down, and we just chillled out on the couch, watchin daytime tv.

i could see in her face that she felt a million times better. it made me feel even stronger about the case for medical marijuana. i am so grateful for this plant that was placed on the earth for our use.

telling this story is very hard for me... sorry if i rambled, but tears come to my eyes every time i see the picture in my head of my mother, unresponsive in her bed.

its an image burned in my brain, one that i will never forget. as bad as it was, it taught me a lesson. i tried to tell my friends what can truly happen- alot of them are addicted heavily to oxy's/roxys, and one of my close friends died in february of an oxy overdose. i just wish i could get it through to them how fragile and precious life is.
i guess it will take something drastic, like what my family went through to speak loudly enough to get through their heads. i just hope it doesn't happen to anyone else around me, its getting hard to take.

[sergio]

Originally Posted by flowerchild

thats awesome!
my mom is also 65, and from working most of her life with her hands, she has really severe arthiritis.
a couple years ago, i told her about all the benefits of MJ and she was skeptical at first, took her about a year to warm up to it.

she overdosed on painkillers/morphine patch in November.. i found her a pale greyish blue color, labored breathing, slow pulse one morning, and thats when everything crashed down around us both..

i was screaming at her, nothing. i picked her up, and her head slumped forward with a loud thump on my chest. the paramedics came and treated her almost violently, pulling her to the bottom of the bed, and pumping her chest. i have never been more scared in my life. i thought, this is the day i have had nightmares about. it felt so unreal- almost like i was watching it from the outside, and could see us both.

my family has a HUGe problem with addiction, and i finally realized that while her hydrocodones and lorcets did control the pain, they were destroying her liver, and she was mentally and physically addicted. she would take too many pills, and then be out of her prescription, finding other ways to get pills- from friends and reletives through the mail..

she was hospitalized for about a week and a half, and didn't seem to realize how lucky she was to be alive. she didn't seem to understand that she had been completely unresponsive for 2-3 days.

my brother (who just got out of rehab) and i sat down with her and told her that she needed to find other ways to control the pain, because her medication was controlling her life, and destroying it at the same time.

after my brothers left, i cared for my mom night and day. she was violently ill from withdrawing from various painkillers. she couldn't eat, couldn't sleep- was shaking all the time.. so i introduced the idea of using herb to help her appetite and sleeplessness. she hadn't eating in a couple days and i started by telling her how it increases appetite and calms the nerves. she was hesitant, but i loaded up a bowl and lit it for her. she took a few hits and i saw her visibly relax. after toking the bowl with her, i got up and made her a huuuuge peanut butter and jelly sandwhich with a big glass of milk and took it to her. she gobbled it down, and we just chillled out on the couch, watchin daytime tv.

i could see in her face that she felt a million times better. it made me feel even stronger about the case for medical marijuana. i am so grateful for this plant that was placed on the earth for our use.

telling this story is very hard for me... sorry if i rambled, but tears come to my eyes every time i see the picture in my head of my mother, unresponsive in her bed.

its an image burned in my brain, one that i will never forget. as bad as it was, it taught me a lesson. i tried to tell my friends what can truly happen- alot of them are addicted heavily to oxy's/roxys, and one of my close friends died in february of an oxy overdose. i just wish i could get it through to them how fragile and precious life is.
i guess it will take something drastic, like what my family went through to speak loudly enough to get through their heads. i just hope it doesn't happen to anyone else around me, its getting hard to take.

Thanks for sharing that.

Sounds real familar to my teen age years with her alcohol addiction. Now it's the pain meds causing her bowls to shut down. She was taking methodone. Yikes real low dose but every day for 6 years.

To be honest I had a few tears reading your post. Good luck to you and your mom. Tell her my story on Mother's day maybe she'll feel like she's not alone. I'll be passing your story on to my mom too.

[sergio]

Originally Posted by tiny_riots

This story made my morning !!

That's so great! Your mom is no longer suffering!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Funny she got her help from the plant in my avatar. Funny how life works.

[Stonedgobln420]

See, another two cases of people being helped by this healing herb.

Im glad that it has helped your family.

[PJV575]

Amazing stories, great to hear that you found something help your mothers (both of you who shared experiences).

[chiggmista]

those are some of the best storys ever. that kind of stuff needs to be on commericals and shit. or abovetheinfluence bullshit. my mom also belives in medical mj she has bad back problems and she tokes up before bed so she can go to sleep without the stinging pain in her lower back.

[codybridges69]

Originally Posted by flowerchild

thats awesome!
my mom is also 65, and from working most of her life with her hands, she has really severe arthiritis.
a couple years ago, i told her about all the benefits of MJ and she was skeptical at first, took her about a year to warm up to it.

she overdosed on painkillers/morphine patch in November.. i found her a pale greyish blue color, labored breathing, slow pulse one morning, and thats when everything crashed down around us both..

i was screaming at her, nothing. i picked her up, and her head slumped forward with a loud thump on my chest. the paramedics came and treated her almost violently, pulling her to the bottom of the bed, and pumping her chest. i have never been more scared in my life. i thought, this is the day i have had nightmares about. it felt so unreal- almost like i was watching it from the outside, and could see us both.

my family has a HUGe problem with addiction, and i finally realized that while her hydrocodones and lorcets did control the pain, they were destroying her liver, and she was mentally and physically addicted. she would take too many pills, and then be out of her prescription, finding other ways to get pills- from friends and reletives through the mail..

she was hospitalized for about a week and a half, and didn't seem to realize how lucky she was to be alive. she didn't seem to understand that she had been completely unresponsive for 2-3 days.

my brother (who just got out of rehab) and i sat down with her and told her that she needed to find other ways to control the pain, because her medication was controlling her life, and destroying it at the same time.

after my brothers left, i cared for my mom night and day. she was violently ill from withdrawing from various painkillers. she couldn't eat, couldn't sleep- was shaking all the time.. so i introduced the idea of using herb to help her appetite and sleeplessness. she hadn't eating in a couple days and i started by telling her how it increases appetite and calms the nerves. she was hesitant, but i loaded up a bowl and lit it for her. she took a few hits and i saw her visibly relax. after toking the bowl with her, i got up and made her a huuuuge peanut butter and jelly sandwhich with a big glass of milk and took it to her. she gobbled it down, and we just chillled out on the couch, watchin daytime tv.

i could see in her face that she felt a million times better. it made me feel even stronger about the case for medical marijuana. i am so grateful for this plant that was placed on the earth for our use.

telling this story is very hard for me... sorry if i rambled, but tears come to my eyes every time i see the picture in my head of my mother, unresponsive in her bed.

its an image burned in my brain, one that i will never forget. as bad as it was, it taught me a lesson. i tried to tell my friends what can truly happen- alot of them are addicted heavily to oxy's/roxys, and one of my close friends died in february of an oxy overdose. i just wish i could get it through to them how fragile and precious life is.
i guess it will take something drastic, like what my family went through to speak loudly enough to get through their heads. i just hope it doesn't happen to anyone else around me, its getting hard to take.

I feel for you man.. about 3 years ago my mom ODed on Morphine, but she didn't make it.

[jsmak]

A+ thread!!! I wish they put stories like these on the news.

[enevitable]

good thread indeed