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Today was the celebration of my niece Madeline Margene Slaughter's wonderful life.  It was indeed an excellent uplifting experience.  For me the center of attention became the angle of the chapel pews and their height.  The angle proved to be a bit too steep creating pressure backwards into my lower backs/hips.  And the seats were slightly too shallow to give enough leg support.  After a very beautiful service we traveled to the cemetery for he interment. The ground was frozen and the shoes I'd chosen due to the anticipation of the frozen ground proved to be less than ideal.  Doc Martin's are a wonderful shoe, but not if you only where them once every 5 years.  Then we went out to eat as a family, Jody and I, Tage and Marcella, Jason and Stephanie with Ora, Ellis, and Patience in tow.  The meal was rather delightful, the kids were very good and the food excellent.
Upon arriving home I need some of the pain-numbers desperately.  Tage had talked about these "meds" that are available where taking one would ensure the loss of pain.  Problem is he said "you'd want more."  I was tempted to ask him more about it and where can a sample be found!  So I got home, took 2 generic lortab and really didn't feel too much change for about an hour.  But it was wonderful when they kicked in the discomfort was gone and I had a great time playing with my grandkids especially Ellis.!  I don't recall playing so long and hard as we did tonight...it was great!  Then we started doing "airplane or flying" games where I toss them about.  My back began to repeal at that point.  I found the meds were wearing off, this being about 4 hours later in the sequence. Took one 100mg Lyrica before bed.  Slept deeply until I awoke with dream where I need to spit long slippery snake from  my throat.  In so doing I hacked and coughed and eventually ended up hacking and coughing so hard I threw up.  The process has continued for many many minutes to this point.  So far my only relief has come from sitting upright and drinking some cleansing Chia-seed gel.  I've had about 1/2 cup already and will finish more!  As anyone else experienced anything like this?  Being awakened out of dead sleep with the need to hack and cough to clear your throat only to find it is clogged with slimmy disgusting slim!  And it won't come out with normal coughing?!  If so, please do tell how you chose to handle it.