Made It To Arkansas

Published on July 23, 2006 By MasonM In Blogging

I did a fair bit of driving today and have made it to West Memphis, AR. I'm still a good 4 1/2 hours from my destination and so will get an early start in the morning, but at least I'm within easy reach at this point.

My hip has been giving me some trouble for the past few days and last night it kept me awake a good portion of the time I should have been sleeping. Socrates knew something was wrong and kept coming to check on me. He's gotten to where he now normally either gets in his bed or lays on the driver's seat when I switch off the lights at night (probably doesn't like my snoring

), but I suppose my being restless clued him in that something wasn't right.

This morning I had a very hard time getting out of bed and the pain was intense. I finally managed to get myself dressed, grabbed my cane, and hobbled into the truckstop. As I had run out of Aleve the last time the hip gave me trouble that was my first order of business once inside. Truckstops usually have a small selection of the little bottles of over the counter medicines that you can buy for around a million dollars. Sure enough, they had some Aleve. I paid enough to buy three large bottles any place else, but it was worth it at the moment (I knew I'd forgotten something at Wally World).

I took two of the Aleve on an empty stomach with my morning coffee. While it does upset my stomach a bit to take it that way, it hits the system a good bit faster. After about 45 minutes of coffee drinking the pain was starting to ease a bit and I felt like I could start driving. I only drove about 90 minutes before stopping to eat breakfast, but by that time the Aleve was fully in my system and the pain in my hip and leg were back down to a tolerable level. It doesn't make it go away by any means but it does really take the edge off.

I'm now parked for the night here. After eating my dinner I'll take another Aleve which will hopefully allow me to sleep all night. While at Wally World I picked up some Hormel microwave meals that don't need to be refrigerated (my small fridge is filled mostly with Gatorade). I don't know how good they are but I picked up four of them to try. Can't live on soup alone. Right now I'm trying to decide which one to try first. I got Sweet and Sour Chicken, Southwest Style Black Beans and Rice, Spaghetti, and Chicken and Rice. While I had been trying to stick to a veggie diet I've found it far too difficult out here on the road.

I think I'll try the Spaghetti tonight. How bad could it be? (Famous last words)

Comments (Page 2)

MasonM

on Jul 25, 2006

#10 by foreverserenity
Mon, July 24, 2006 10:23 AM

Glad you were able to get the tablets for the hip pain M. I know living with pain that flares up like that is not easy.

I hope your spaghetti was good. Gosh, there are so many microwavable foods out there these days. You should try some of the chicken cutlets, since you don't mind including meat in your diet at the moment. Those are good. I made some meatballs on Saturday which were really good. I was too lazy to make it from scratch and so I bought the pre-cooked ones which turned out to be pretty easy to do in the microwave.

Thanks. I've been browsing around for stuff to nuke that doesn't look too toxic.

MasonM

on Jul 25, 2006

#11 by Trudygolightly
Mon, July 24, 2006 6:41 PM

Mason, sorry the White Castles don't agaree with ya! Murder Burgers? .....we call em gut bombs or sliders.

You'r'e adapting real well to the road life though you and your good buddy!

Yeah, I've been back out here after recouperating from the wreck for, wow, 6 months already. I'm getting back into the swing of things. And Socrates is adpating quite well to road life.

Dr Guy

on Jul 25, 2006

Sounds like cat food to me

The spaghetti was, ummm, well, I've had worse.

Try the Salmon! hey! if you dont like it, Socrates will!

quietly

on Jul 25, 2006

New to bloggingFirst ArticleBy MasonMPosted Tuesday, January 13, 2004 on Who's life is it anyway?Discussion: BloggingOK. I just signed up for a blog here. This is a totally new concept for me, and I'm not even sure why I started it; just sounded interesting.I will be reading articles written by others to get a feel for this, but for now I'll just begin typing.Where to start? Well, let's see, I'm currently between jobs. I've been off work since November due to an accident.I was/am a truck driver. I was in Ohio, bobtailing (tractor, no trailer) to a shipper to pick up a pre-loaded trailer to haul down to South Carolina when another truck, fully loaded, pulled out of a truckstop without looking.

This was November of 2003, right? Jeez, I hope I haven't lost it........

Either way, hope everything is cool and under control.

"...working jobs we hate to buy [crap] we don't need."
Tyler Durden
Fight Club

MasonM

on Jul 25, 2006

#19 by (quietly)
Tue, July 25, 2006 9:32 PM

New to bloggingFirst ArticleBy MasonMPosted Tuesday, January 13, 2004 on Who's life is it anyway?Discussion: BloggingOK. I just signed up for a blog here. This is a totally new concept for me, and I'm not even sure why I started it; just sounded interesting.I will be reading articles written by others to get a feel for this, but for now I'll just begin typing.Where to start? Well, let's see, I'm currently between jobs. I've been off work since November due to an accident.I was/am a truck driver. I was in Ohio, bobtailing (tractor, no trailer) to a shipper to pick up a pre-loaded trailer to haul down to South Carolina when another truck, fully loaded, pulled out of a truckstop without looking.

This was November of 2003, right? Jeez, I hope I haven't lost it........

Either way, hope everything is cool and under control.

Oh, geez. I had forgotten about that. Another driver T-boned me and hurt my back. My how time flies.

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